Anonymous wrote:A latte can have 500 calories. Try fasting for 24 hours and then for 3 days just eating lean protein and low carb veggies. You can have some fat but go easy, avocado, cook in olive oil or a little butter. This should stop the food cravings. Go back to what you were eating doing 16:8. Add strength training to build muscle.

OP here. What latte has 500 calories? Even a tall at Starbucks with 2% is only 120 calories or so.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why you are assuming the weight gain happened in the last 3 weeks instead of the preceding 8 months. You could be losing, but you don’t know because you don’t know where you started. Regardless, if you’re constantly hungry this obviously won’t work for you. Find something else.

Because I can't accept being over 300 lbs.

This is the most logical explanation. I know so many people who’ve gained weight during the pandemic. Here’s an idea, keep doing IF and weigh yourself again in a week. Then you’ll actually know if you’re gaining weight or not. Then you’ll have one week’s worth of real data not what you imagined you weighed.

I started because I was horrified by pictures on vacation in late July. Sent some selfies from this weekend and from back then to a few friends tonight, and they were stunned at the change in my face. SO maybe I AM losing.

I know I'm not drinking enough water, either.

A latte can have 500 calories. Try fasting for 24 hours and then for 3 days just eating lean protein and low carb veggies. You can have some fat but go easy, avocado, cook in olive oil or a little butter. This should stop the food cravings. Go back to what you were eating doing 16:8. Add strength training to build muscle.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why you are assuming the weight gain happened in the last 3 weeks instead of the preceding 8 months. You could be losing, but you don’t know because you don’t know where you started. Regardless, if you’re constantly hungry this obviously won’t work for you. Find something else.

Because I can't accept being over 300 lbs.

This is the most logical explanation. I know so many people who’ve gained weight during the pandemic. Here’s an idea, keep doing IF and weigh yourself again in a week. Then you’ll actually know if you’re gaining weight or not. Then you’ll have one week’s worth of real data not what you imagined you weighed.

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Anonymous wrote:14/10 hardly seems like IF. That would be like eating from 9am until 7pm right? That is just avoiding nighttime snacking.

+1

This. You’re not intermittent fasting. I’d argue that 16/8 isn’t even IF.

Genuine daily IF is more like a 6-7 hour eating window, IMO.

Fair. But it's still eating much less than I used to (latte for breakfast, snack all day, giant dinner, snack all evening with glass of wine in front of the TV...).

Anonymous wrote:14/10 hardly seems like IF. That would be like eating from 9am until 7pm right? That is just avoiding nighttime snacking.

+1

This. You’re not intermittent fasting. I’d argue that 16/8 isn’t even IF.

Genuine daily IF is more like a 6-7 hour eating window, IMO.

Anonymous wrote:1. Eat until 8pm tonight.
2. Wake up tomorrow morning, pee and weigh yourself naked.
3. Write it down along with Tuesday, September 7, 2021
4. Have nothing pass your lips except plain water until 11am. Nothing. No black coffee with stevia. No nuts. Nothing but plain water.
5. At 11am, begin eating. Eat normal foods in normal portions.
6. At 7pm, stop eating. Nothing more passes your lips except plain water until 11am the next morning.
Do this everyday.
7. Weigh yourself on Tuesday morning, Sept 14. And again on Tuesday, Sept 21. Always in the morning, always after peeing, always naked. Write it down.

Report back on your progress.

Are caffeine pills with plain water ok? I work two jobs and can't function without caffeine? Sounds snarky, but I am totally honest.

1. Eat until 8pm tonight.
2. Wake up tomorrow morning, pee and weigh yourself naked.
3. Write it down along with Tuesday, September 7, 2021
4. Have nothing pass your lips except plain water until 11am. Nothing. No black coffee with stevia. No nuts. Nothing but plain water.
5. At 11am, begin eating. Eat normal foods in normal portions.
6. At 7pm, stop eating. Nothing more passes your lips except plain water until 11am the next morning.
Do this everyday.
7. Weigh yourself on Tuesday morning, Sept 14. And again on Tuesday, Sept 21. Always in the morning, always after peeing, always naked. Write it down.

Report back on your progress.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe getting bloodwork done and seeing a dietician would be the best path. There have been a lot of suggestions that have been met with resistance. Weight loss takes work. Especially if you’re a woman or have low muscle mass or are short. It sucks but there’s a reason it’s a massive industry in our country. So, maybe see some professionals since the advice on this board is not to your liking. If you’re 300 lbs, it really shouldn’t be that hard to lose weight. It’s the last 5-10 lbs that are the hardest.

This is what scares me. I actually like the feeling of being hungry, but if I'm not losing...but maybe I am.

It’s working OP! However, I would use Lose It and track. If anything, that number of calories is too low.

Maybe getting bloodwork done and seeing a dietician would be the best path. There have been a lot of suggestions that have been met with resistance. Weight loss takes work. Especially if you’re a woman or have low muscle mass or are short. It sucks but there’s a reason it’s a massive industry in our country. So, maybe see some professionals since the advice on this board is not to your liking. If you’re 300 lbs, it really shouldn’t be that hard to lose weight. It’s the last 5-10 lbs that are the hardest.

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Anonymous wrote:You need to power through that first day when you are hungry all the time. And increase your fasting window.
I mean you had all day to eat!

I'm ALREADY hungry all the time, though. If I increase my fasting window (and I have gone as long as 18 hours before), I'm light-headed and nauseated. Water doesn't help.

Here is how. In order for ghrelin non to be kicking your butt, you need to stop eating breakfast or dinner. Don't have it for a couple of days, at all. You are making yourself be hungry by eating in the evening. You are not actually needing the food, your body remembers that it eats during that time and it sends you the signals that you are hungry, but your don't need it. At all.
Since you are lightheaded, take a handful of salt, and chug that down with water. Take tea or coffee, black no milk no sugar. You are making yourself hungry bcs you are actually eating all the time. I see nothing that is IF in your routine.

I don't eat breakfast. Just black coffee. Is that screwing me up?

No, that is not screwing you up. Not in that case. What do you eat for dinner? At what time? I ask bcs I have done IF, gone even for 2 days with no food and I learned how not to be hungry. Once you get over the initial hunger, you are not hungry, at all.

"fast" by having grapefruit, wholemilk, daal (Indian split pea/lentils) or other laxative-effect foods until your bowel movement. Then 52 minutes after bowel movement (or after "recovery" time) eat normally.

Always pacify hunger or cravings with whole/unprocessed/full fat foods, low sugar, or Asian/Euro versions of the food. Want a coconut donut, eat coconut shrimp. Want yogurt? Eat plain yogurt with fruit. Bread at night to help you sleep through the night-get 1g sugar vs 5g per slice. Need red meat-try liver or lamb with herbs. How about cabbage-try a stirfry vs greasy eggroll.

Drink tons of water. Throw out that scale and buy a body fat pincher or measuring tape. DO resistance training. You've got this!

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Anonymous wrote:It’s pretty obvious that you are losing and just don’t realize how big you were.

I've seen photos. I think I realize now.

Okay so now you know it is working. I think this whole thread is your brain trying to trick you into not staying on track.

I think I'm just terrified it's not.

So. Give it more time. Now you know what your weight is. Continue what you've been doing for a couple more weeks and then you'll know for sure. The only reason you don't think it's working is because you don't want to accept you weighed 300 pounds before you started. You're sabatoging yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:Are you always so argumentative and "know it all" like?

I mean, yes, I know more about what I'm doing than strangers.

And yet you're asking for advice because you think what you're doing isn't working and just argue with everyone who gives advice.