But I guess you’re healthier though, according to the rats.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry for the title. I don't believe that describes you but wanted to ask more questions because you've been doing this so long it seems sustainable for you guys.

You said 2 things that I'm curious about, if you wouldn't mind explaining more. You've got a maintenance and a weight loss regimen. I'm curious how often you and/or your wife find yourselves having to move back to the weight-loss fasting approach.

Also, what do you eat on nonfasting days? Are there any limits on the hours you eat or what you eat?

Thanks!

MS DB again, to answer you other questions. We rarely have to move back to weight-loss other than after December holidays. I will admit, that while I am quite a straight male, I'm not a fan of clothes, and come summer time I wear a smaller swimsuit than most men and I'm quite comfortable in it, but it does motivate me for a bit more of a weight-loss push in the summer months. I'm talking 2-4 pounds difference. Nothing crazy. I wear 34 inch waist pants in the summer months and 36 inch waist pants the rest of the year.

As far as what we eat on non-fasting days, we eat sensibly. We don't count calories, but like I mentioned in my other posts, IF breaks addictions to carbs and other snacky things, so I don't find myself gravitating to them as much as someone else might who doesn't fast. I used to be that way, before IF.

There are no limits on the hours that we eat either

I will say, IF isn't glamorous. It's an exercise in self-discipline but it reaps great rewards in personal development.

That smaller swimsuit talk does wonders for your rep. For all this work, you don’t look better than the average guy. Why is that, with all this work? How old are you and how old is your wife?

MS DB here....I'm not sure I understand your comment, but to answer your question we're both late 30's. Just to clarify, I am not the average guy. I am 6'8" tall, and I have few peers my height and none of them have a 34" waist.

DP. You’re only in your 30’s? I would have guessed mid to late 40’s. My DH just turned 42 and he looks way more cut without counting calories or cutting back anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry for the title. I don't believe that describes you but wanted to ask more questions because you've been doing this so long it seems sustainable for you guys.

You said 2 things that I'm curious about, if you wouldn't mind explaining more. You've got a maintenance and a weight loss regimen. I'm curious how often you and/or your wife find yourselves having to move back to the weight-loss fasting approach.

Also, what do you eat on nonfasting days? Are there any limits on the hours you eat or what you eat?

Thanks!

MS DB again, to answer you other questions. We rarely have to move back to weight-loss other than after December holidays. I will admit, that while I am quite a straight male, I'm not a fan of clothes, and come summer time I wear a smaller swimsuit than most men and I'm quite comfortable in it, but it does motivate me for a bit more of a weight-loss push in the summer months. I'm talking 2-4 pounds difference. Nothing crazy. I wear 34 inch waist pants in the summer months and 36 inch waist pants the rest of the year.

As far as what we eat on non-fasting days, we eat sensibly. We don't count calories, but like I mentioned in my other posts, IF breaks addictions to carbs and other snacky things, so I don't find myself gravitating to them as much as someone else might who doesn't fast. I used to be that way, before IF.

There are no limits on the hours that we eat either

I will say, IF isn't glamorous. It's an exercise in self-discipline but it reaps great rewards in personal development.

That smaller swimsuit talk does wonders for your rep. For all this work, you don’t look better than the average guy. Why is that, with all this work? How old are you and how old is your wife?

MS DB here....I'm not sure I understand your comment, but to answer your question we're both late 30's. Just to clarify, I am not the average guy. I am 6'8" tall, and I have few peers my height and none of them have a 34" waist.

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Anonymous wrote:Fasting is just starving yourself. Of course you will lose weight. But you will also lose muscle.

Not msdb, you will not unless you are insane with it.

Technically with ANY weight loss, you will lose a combination of water, fat and muscle. You cannot tell your body what to get rid of. However, intermittent fasting does not increase/decrease the rate of muscle loss on it's own. A deficiency in protein will increase muscle loss during any caloric deficit.

I really wish the people who posted in this forum would do just a LITTLE bit of research before posting nonsense like "fasting is starving yourself."

So you're arguing there's some science behind "fasting" versus not eating. Lol, okay.

There is actually science behind fasting. It is a different practice than reducing calories by dieting but eating all day long and your body handles it differently.

Google fasting and cancer and fasting and longevity as well. Lots of science out there. Or you could just remain ignorant and argumentative.

How do you handle the migraines?

Honestly never had that problem, but if you do I would bet your body is detoxing from a serious chemical dependency that could be helped by IF. It probably would taper over time if you dealt with acute symptoms with painkillers.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry for the title. I don't believe that describes you but wanted to ask more questions because you've been doing this so long it seems sustainable for you guys.

You said 2 things that I'm curious about, if you wouldn't mind explaining more. You've got a maintenance and a weight loss regimen. I'm curious how often you and/or your wife find yourselves having to move back to the weight-loss fasting approach.

Also, what do you eat on nonfasting days? Are there any limits on the hours you eat or what you eat?

Thanks!

MS DB again, to answer you other questions. We rarely have to move back to weight-loss other than after December holidays. I will admit, that while I am quite a straight male, I'm not a fan of clothes, and come summer time I wear a smaller swimsuit than most men and I'm quite comfortable in it, but it does motivate me for a bit more of a weight-loss push in the summer months. I'm talking 2-4 pounds difference. Nothing crazy. I wear 34 inch waist pants in the summer months and 36 inch waist pants the rest of the year.

As far as what we eat on non-fasting days, we eat sensibly. We don't count calories, but like I mentioned in my other posts, IF breaks addictions to carbs and other snacky things, so I don't find myself gravitating to them as much as someone else might who doesn't fast. I used to be that way, before IF.

There are no limits on the hours that we eat either

I will say, IF isn't glamorous. It's an exercise in self-discipline but it reaps great rewards in personal development.

That smaller swimsuit talk does wonders for your rep. For all this work, you don’t look better than the average guy. Why is that, with all this work? How old are you and how old is your wife?

Signed,
DH wears 32 inch waist, runs 6 days a week, and eats like a normal non-obsessive human. And gets up early with his kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry for the title. I don't believe that describes you but wanted to ask more questions because you've been doing this so long it seems sustainable for you guys.

You said 2 things that I'm curious about, if you wouldn't mind explaining more. You've got a maintenance and a weight loss regimen. I'm curious how often you and/or your wife find yourselves having to move back to the weight-loss fasting approach.

Also, what do you eat on nonfasting days? Are there any limits on the hours you eat or what you eat?

Thanks!

MS DB again, to answer you other questions. We rarely have to move back to weight-loss other than after December holidays. I will admit, that while I am quite a straight male, I'm not a fan of clothes, and come summer time I wear a smaller swimsuit than most men and I'm quite comfortable in it, but it does motivate me for a bit more of a weight-loss push in the summer months. I'm talking 2-4 pounds difference. Nothing crazy. I wear 34 inch waist pants in the summer months and 36 inch waist pants the rest of the year.

As far as what we eat on non-fasting days, we eat sensibly. We don't count calories, but like I mentioned in my other posts, IF breaks addictions to carbs and other snacky things, so I don't find myself gravitating to them as much as someone else might who doesn't fast. I used to be that way, before IF.

There are no limits on the hours that we eat either

I will say, IF isn't glamorous. It's an exercise in self-discipline but it reaps great rewards in personal development.

That smaller swimsuit talk does wonders for your rep. For all this work, you don’t look better than the average guy. Why is that, with all this work? How old are you and how old is your wife?

For the man...what has the fasting done for your cholesterol?

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Anonymous wrote:Fasting is just starving yourself. Of course you will lose weight. But you will also lose muscle.

Not msdb, you will not unless you are insane with it.

Technically with ANY weight loss, you will lose a combination of water, fat and muscle. You cannot tell your body what to get rid of. However, intermittent fasting does not increase/decrease the rate of muscle loss on it's own. A deficiency in protein will increase muscle loss during any caloric deficit.

I really wish the people who posted in this forum would do just a LITTLE bit of research before posting nonsense like "fasting is starving yourself."

So you're arguing there's some science behind "fasting" versus not eating. Lol, okay.

There is actually science behind fasting. It is a different practice than reducing calories by dieting but eating all day long and your body handles it differently.

Google fasting and cancer and fasting and longevity as well. Lots of science out there. Or you could just remain ignorant and argumentative.

How do you handle the migraines?

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Anonymous wrote:I really need the footnotes version of DCUM

Do you mean cliffnotes?

read this thread and you'll see how we got where we are...lol

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/729689.page

Anonymous wrote:This approach is definitely effective, but seems like a lot of work and thought. I have a much simpler approach that works. During the week eat reasonably healthy, don’t do any carb snacking, and don’t have any sweets. On the weekends eat whatever you want. Exercise 4-5 times a week. This has allowed me to maintain a lean and muscular body and is very simple.

MS DB here...Actually the whole reason we picked this lifestyle is because it takes almost zero thought. You pick a day and don't eat. No brainer. There are so many weight loss programs and whatnot that are completely not sustainable long term just because of the amount of work, planning, or expense. This is no curriculum, no upline, no order deadlines, nothing. There is also not a 30 day plan with no exit strategy. Crash diets work, sure, but they never have an exit strategy for maintenance long term after the 30/45/90 day program.

Your approach is certainly reasonable. I have no issues with it personally. It's what I used to do, but living in America with excessive everything always available, it's easy for weight to creep up on you especially as you age. I like to drink alot on some weekends too when life dictates. Fasting is just a big fat reset button for all that fun. Like I mentioned prior, I'm always an advocate of reading Brad Pilon's ebook entitled Eat Stop Eat. It explains alot, very well.

Anonymous wrote:Sorry for the title. I don't believe that describes you but wanted to ask more questions because you've been doing this so long it seems sustainable for you guys.

You said 2 things that I'm curious about, if you wouldn't mind explaining more. You've got a maintenance and a weight loss regimen. I'm curious how often you and/or your wife find yourselves having to move back to the weight-loss fasting approach.

Also, what do you eat on nonfasting days? Are there any limits on the hours you eat or what you eat?

Thanks!

MS DB again, to answer you other questions. We rarely have to move back to weight-loss other than after December holidays. I will admit, that while I am quite a straight male, I'm not a fan of clothes, and come summer time I wear a smaller swimsuit than most men and I'm quite comfortable in it, but it does motivate me for a bit more of a weight-loss push in the summer months. I'm talking 2-4 pounds difference. Nothing crazy. I wear 34 inch waist pants in the summer months and 36 inch waist pants the rest of the year.

As far as what we eat on non-fasting days, we eat sensibly. We don't count calories, but like I mentioned in my other posts, IF breaks addictions to carbs and other snacky things, so I don't find myself gravitating to them as much as someone else might who doesn't fast. I used to be that way, before IF.

There are no limits on the hours that we eat either

I will say, IF isn't glamorous. It's an exercise in self-discipline but it reaps great rewards in personal development.

This approach is definitely effective, but seems like a lot of work and thought. I have a much simpler approach that works. During the week eat reasonably healthy, don’t do any carb snacking, and don’t have any sweets. On the weekends eat whatever you want. Exercise 4-5 times a week. This has allowed me to maintain a lean and muscular body and is very simple.

Anonymous wrote:Sorry for the title. I don't believe that describes you but wanted to ask more questions because you've been doing this so long it seems sustainable for you guys.

You said 2 things that I'm curious about, if you wouldn't mind explaining more. You've got a maintenance and a weight loss regimen. I'm curious how often you and/or your wife find yourselves having to move back to the weight-loss fasting approach.

Also, what do you eat on nonfng days? Are there any limits on the hours you eat or what you eat?

Thanks!

Good morning, mansplaining douchebag here, the difference between maintenance and weight loss is really the length of the fasts that I was referring to. Normally we only do 22 to 24 hour fasts once or twice a week andI call that maintenance. However, in the month of December with the parties and the get-togethers and everything else, it is usually not convenient to have regular fasting periods, so we give it a break. That usually means we enter January 5-10lb above our norm. And then we go more into an aggressive weight loss mode and extend our fasts to 30 hour fast twice a week. After a few weeks of that, we are back to our Norm. Keep in mind, that is how we have been doing it for the last four to five years. When we first began this lifestyle, we had an entirely different perception of what a normal healthy weight was, which in my opinion was skewed, and we had a lot of weight to lose. Like I mentioned in my other posts, I strongly recommend reading the ebook entitled eat stop eat.

Anonymous wrote:I really need the footnotes version of DCUM

Do you mean cliffnotes?

I really need the footnotes version of DCUM