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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.
I've observed a handful of people who look "young" for their age who do fasting. Not statistically significant. Agree with Race that I think the discipline is the key identifier to being decent at health.
I tried a little bit of fasting during Covid with skipping breakfast and lunch except for black coffee but didn't really see any benefits, so stopped doing that. Dropped weight later on while eating normally.
Yesterday I did the opposite of fasting traveling back home from Europe. Pretty sure I cleared 10K calories due to all the available good food in airline lounges (and a couple of decent options onboard). Omelette stations, fresh crepes, desserts galore ugh dammit.
I've done some fasting (church things) and what I've observed is that it seems to be a tool that helps you DEVELOP discipline vs. a tool that helps your body be healthier. I'd say that I have a great ability to be disciplined in controlling what food goes into my body because I practiced a discipline of fasting. Just building a muscle over time.
My cousin lost like 150lbs just walking and only eating dinner. My dad lost around 80lbs just eating dinner. I know he wasn’t exercising. It works for some people.