Mind elaborating on this a bit? Do you just stop eating entirely for X days, or limit yourself to very small amounts, or what? How hard do you find it to maintain? How effective is it?
I often find abstaining from something entirely to be much easier than attempting moderation; I’m sort of wondering if this might work for me, to more reliably drop the weight I usually put on around holidays.
Use Beeminder with a weight goal, eat whatever you like when you’re below the centerline, and stop eating entirely whenever you go above it, until you’re under it again.
This sounds like a fairly horrible idea. There is no guarantee that you will feel like doing fasting when you go above the centerline, if anything, you go above because you are in a bad mood and eat or drink to deal with it, so you would be fasting at times when it is the least convenient. Instead, you can simply fast whenever you feel it would be easy. Whenever you feel strong and happy and proud.
I do intermittent fasting by limiting my consumption of carbs and protein to a six hour window six or seven days a week. Other people might consume only water 2 or 3 days a week. A big goal of intermittent fasting is to promote autophagy.
So what do you eat what is not carbs and not protein? Steamed broccoli? Because I have recently learned even vegs like peas or carrots have carbs. This surprised me.
No, for X hours. X between 12 and 24, and the first 8 hours of it asleep. Zero solid food, but a little bit of milk in my coffe is a must, I cannot drink it otherwise.
Hardness goes away after about 12 hours. But the 8 to 12 hours are bad enough to call it hard and not do it that often. Hardness depends on many factors, mood, if alcohol was drunk the day before or not etc. I cannot tell the effectiveness of it yet, as I started it when I started to do other changes as well. I am losing weight, but not sure due to this.
Mind elaborating on this a bit? Do you just stop eating entirely for X days, or limit yourself to very small amounts, or what? How hard do you find it to maintain? How effective is it?
I often find abstaining from something entirely to be much easier than attempting moderation; I’m sort of wondering if this might work for me, to more reliably drop the weight I usually put on around holidays.
Use Beeminder with a weight goal, eat whatever you like when you’re below the centerline, and stop eating entirely whenever you go above it, until you’re under it again.
This sounds like a fairly horrible idea. There is no guarantee that you will feel like doing fasting when you go above the centerline, if anything, you go above because you are in a bad mood and eat or drink to deal with it, so you would be fasting at times when it is the least convenient. Instead, you can simply fast whenever you feel it would be easy. Whenever you feel strong and happy and proud.
It’s worked for me so far.
I actually have such a goal, but hadn’t considered using it like this.
I do intermittent fasting by limiting my consumption of carbs and protein to a six hour window six or seven days a week. Other people might consume only water 2 or 3 days a week. A big goal of intermittent fasting is to promote autophagy.
So what do you eat what is not carbs and not protein? Steamed broccoli? Because I have recently learned even vegs like peas or carrots have carbs. This surprised me.
Bulletproof coffee=coffee+Butter from grass-fed cows+MCI oil.
Butter doesn’t have protein?
According to Wikipedia it has only 1 g protein and 0 carbs for 81g of fat.
How about sauerkraut? The carbs are fermented away before you eat it. Perhaps there are similar ways to cook other veggies like that.
No, for X hours. X between 12 and 24, and the first 8 hours of it asleep. Zero solid food, but a little bit of milk in my coffe is a must, I cannot drink it otherwise.
Hardness goes away after about 12 hours. But the 8 to 12 hours are bad enough to call it hard and not do it that often. Hardness depends on many factors, mood, if alcohol was drunk the day before or not etc. I cannot tell the effectiveness of it yet, as I started it when I started to do other changes as well. I am losing weight, but not sure due to this.