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Fasting
YellowSnow
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I've decided is for people with a small motor and low caloric needs.
I had to do 36 hr or so fast before my old man corn hole scope a few weeks back and could only have 3 of those stupid Ensure "Clear" drinks.
I about died from hunger pains and mental fog.
Fuck that shit.
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I've tried it a few times. Typically skipping meals until dinner and drinking a bunch of water.
All it ever did was make me hungry and depressed waiting for the chance to eat food.
I also had some involuntary fasting related to getting my appendix out and lost 8 pounds in 3 days. Never felt weaker than that.
I just don't get it.
Portion control or skipping lunch I can understand.
It is more useful for auto-immunes because if your system is inflamed constantly you are giving it a break from that. There's also benefits from just cannibalizing dead cells beyond trying to lose weight, but yes you have to go well over 24 hours and it's not worth making yourself miserable.
Wow. 36 hours. You really crushed it.
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Row Peter puffers are not built to fast. The furnace is too big, boss. If I was on survivor I’d break on day one and go full cannibalism.
The discipline required to fast is part of the process. Denial of the flesh. I really suck at denying the flesh quite honestly but I have fasted and to this day eat a spartan diet especially living in the artic where the weather sucks 10 month a year. I never went back to a gym membership after they foolishly closed during covid when they were needed most. Mine still tried to charge me which warranted the death penalty
Moderation in all things includes things like fasting and diet. My fist three day fast wasn't by choice but by necessity. Poor starving student. That's when I realized that my Home Ec mom was wrong and you wouldn't die if you didn't get three squares a day
To each their own
I have pretty solid discipline in some things (e.g., cardiovascular exercise) and high pain tolerance, but not when it comes to hunger (I'm soft AF).
Discipline and denial of the flesh in the form of portion control and abstaining from "convenient" food would solve many of our problems though.
It's anecdotal but you really don't see a lot of fat people over 70
I want to be skinny and 90
70 for you is nigh, boss. We'll need to have a party.
I'd be really curious to see obesity rates for 70- 79 and 80- 89 vs 50-59 and 60-69.
In other words, are what age does the herd get thin again?
I noticed at my kid's teeball game yesterday that 80% of the parents there were fat. Not a lot of fasting happening in Kitsap County, apparently.