Reply to How Long Before You Started Seeing Results from Intermittent Fasting

Forum Index » Diet, Nutrition & Weight Loss

Reply to "How Long Before You Started Seeing Results from Intermittent Fasting"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My wife and I have been doing IF for over 5 years not with great success.  I would highly recommend reading Brad Pilon's E-book called Eat Stop Eat.  It's a short read and really breaks down the science behind it.  It also helps reverse the brain washing we get in this country about opposition to fasting.  My wife dropped 55 pounds in 5 months doing IF and NOT working out.  I'm a male, so I know no one is impressed with me losing weight, but I did drop 25 pounds when I started FWIW.  I know 16:8 is really popular, but we do 2 fasts a week that range between 24 to 30 hours on non-consecutive days. If you read the scientific research in Brad's book behind why the longer fast is better than daily 16:8 it will all make sense.  We continue to do IF weekly to this day for just weight regulation; in fact I'm fasting right now.  It's so nice because it completely eliminates our need for counting calories and other food tracking burdens.  Right now I'm 37, and I can still wear the same 34 inch waist pants that fit me in college.  If you need any encouragement or other advice feel free to ask me.[/quote]

Interesting. I was thinking about adding in a longer fast, maybe only 6 hour eating window two days a week. I've read some research on fasting and a woman's cycle so I was not interested in messing that up!

To answer the OP, I've been doing 16:8 for 7 months and in one month my clothes were looser and I could tell a difference. Now going into summer, my shorts are looser than last year and I probably could buy a smaller size. But, I have also really upped my weight training and workouts during this time so I'm seeing more muscle and my actual scale weight has gone UP because of that. But, I don't trust the scale and prefer to stay off of it. :) [/quote]

I think you're making the right call, PP.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics