That is fantastic. Congrats.
More than weight loss, it is the feeling of overall fitness and a sense of accomplishment and control over your body’s cravings… 🙂

Started three months ago too when I weighed 192 pounds and now I’m at 177 pounds and have lots of energy and work out every day. Lost inches and feel great. This is an eating fasting lifestyle for me for the rest of my life!

So excited that, in two weeks, I have lost five pounds. The fasting days are getting easier as well!!

Has anyone done 4:3 and, if so, have you had significantly more weight loss?

After 3 fast days I have lost 3.5lb (went up a lb this morning but I am fine with that). however I have lost 1inch from my waist and 4 inches (!!!!) from around my stomach. Woohoo!
Roll on Wednesday which is my next fast day.
Have a great day all, we can do this! xx

Hi All well I’ve been on this WOL for 14 weeks now and I love doing it feeling much more fitter than before I’m doing 4:3 most weeks simply because I have loads to lose, it’s so working for me, on my 3 F/days I take a walk about 5 miles each of my fastdays this amazingly works as a suppressant to me, can’t face food on my return for a good few hours, my walks have got quicker + longer (started 1/2miles) my breathing is easier + I feel fantastic, so 14wks & 2 stones lost forever coz there’s no going back for me. So exercise for me on fastdays yes!! a must, plenty water and loads of salad which is easy with the weather we’ve been having.
Good Luck to those just starting this amazing mystery ”diet” Sue

Thanks Mike.

Lovely to hear of your success.You are confirming what I suspected, that exercising on a fast day really shifted the weight. I hit a plateau, although I was running, but couldn’t do that in the heat, so changed to swimming on one fast day which resulted in a whole 2 lb one week.I was eating less due to the heat as well.

I fasted and swam on Monday and will do the same on Thursday and hope for another 2 lb loss.I should add that I do not own a car so that the walk to and from the pool is 30 mins each way, which I’m sure helps too!

Well done!

Thanks for the walking tip Sue Q, I’ve just started the diet today and usually feel nauseous or like I have rats gnawing my stomach when I get hungry. I’m going to try a long walk about lunchtime. Best wishes to all.

I was considering starting Insanity (interval training) again, and all these comments have won me over! I will need to up my food intake a bit then, because I tend to eat below my TDEE on non-fast days as well. And sometimes I downright skip my meal on fast days, but when I start training again I’ll of course have some protein for my poor muscles!

The thing I’m thinking about now is whether to just do the interval on fast days whilst keeping my intake on non-fast days on the low side as well, or do I do Insanity 6 days a week (as the program says) and up my food intake a bit?

Hey 2B! Thanks for your response! I would certainly enjoy the improvements to my physique enormously (still have my head set towards the world championships of 2015 / 2016). My biggest concern is my timetable. I find I’m usually tired after a day of work (I work 45 hour weeks and come home around 19:00). I used to do Insanity when I came home a few weeks ago before I started IF and I’m feeling like they may be hard to incorporate together… Then again, I can just try.

About eating more, that’s also an issue for me xD I eat one meal a day so usually find it hard to stuff 1300 calories into 1-2 hours. And I can’t eat heaps of bacon all day… It sounds weird, saying it, but it’s true – I’m finding it difficult to eat enough calories on my non-fast days. Huh.

Hmmm okay, I guess I could up my protein intake. Don’t have any powder or something here though (sadly) so that’ll just be loads of meat!

That’s why I don’t have it 2B! They sell it here, both whey and soy – even some American brands which are hugely expensive – but I kind of feel like I don’t (or shouldn’t) need it. A protein shake has diary which isn’t always a good thing (carbs!) and a chicken breast has the same amount of protein (and when I eat chicken I tend to eat three of those a day!) It’s either that or beef with some eggwhites to up the protein a bit further. Some days I even find myself eating bacon because I’m having trouble getting in enough calories…

Starting Insanity last night, did the fit test. It wasn’t as good as a few weeks ago, but I blame that on just coming back from Hong Kong (with two nights of bad sleep in a 8-girl dormitory) and the fact I didn’t exercise for those weeks. I did lose weight though and some moves felt easier because of it, like the jumps and squats! Guess that makes sense. Looking forward to losing more this week, because I did gain 2lb last week due to Hong Kong and a chocolate binge earlier.

Nice 2B! We can coach each other, god knows it’s a tough program to stick through to the end at times. Then again I feel like I’ve failed completely when I skip just 1 day, so maybe I’m being a bit too strict.

Have fun on your run!

@joey_d
“I find it incredibly powerful as a way of focusing my mind, feeling more confident, feeling more relaxed, more sociable, my life is actually so much better when I have that feeling of no food in my stomach.

This is a great strategy for me to adapt.

It’s contrary to how most people feel.

How do you get into this state?

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@joey_d
“There is a hormone called nonrenrephene (I think that’s how its spelt) which is naturally released when you fast. … it gives me that mental alertness that I crave. ..”

This is extremely intriguing to me and possibly many others.

Yes, please let us know your progress.

Specifically, relate your mental self talk and steps that you go through?

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Hi nika/rocky,

Well I’m currently experimenting with which foods I can eat for dinner so that when I am fasting in the day I can feel great- because as you say it can vary- but i geuss this can also be down to other things such as how well I sleep etc . I have a feeling carbs actually help provide the good feelings the next day-I’m going to test tonight though. For me it coincides with having that flat stomach feeling. As soon as I eat something is like my body goes into quiet mode, I’m actually noticibly less sociable etc too. I get a similar sociable and euphoria feeling after doing exercise too. as I feel this helps process whatever is in my stomach.

Anyway I’m still learning and I’m so keen to understand specifically how my body works as we all seem to react differently.

I’m going to look more into these hormones and how they work as certain foods allow for more production of certain hormones and apparently the adrenal glands, which produce these feel good hormones, are really important.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts too

Joey

Norepinephrine (sympathetic nervous system) part of fight or flight mechanism and mental alertness

Hi nika, I read the book. Very interesting Thanks.

 I’ve been working on my issue this last week and reading a lot. You’ll be pleased to hear I’m eating a lot too. Basically I’ve come to the decision that my mood and this euphoria etc. is all related to insulin levels. Because I know as soon as I break my fast and eat something I go from my euphoric state to a slump. So I’m trying to figure out which foods wont make me slump when I come of the fast but hopefully keep me in a good mood. So obviously protein, fibre and low carbs are the way to go to avoid my insulin level rocketing and getting that sluggish feeling. Ive also been thinking about my euphoria in relation to the insulin idea because surely when I’m fasting my insulin level is at its lowest and if anything im hypoglycemic (too low blood sugar) from my reading, hypoglycemia forces the release of glucagon and I think this euphoria that I speak about may be part of the chemical process taking place during my low blood sugar level and my bodies reaction. My science is very basic do id appreciate some thoughts from someone more knowledgable. Also when does ketosis occur in relation to glucagon?

I have a question about digestion times because I am aware that in the morning, well I feel like I am still digesting my dinner. I eat at about 8-10pm so makes sense. But I want to know is it a gradual process that we stop using glucose direct from food and start using glycogen stores, surely the two must happen simultaneously as they cross over. And what about ketosis? That must be gradual too so once we get near the end of our glycogen stores we must slowly go into ketosis. I’m just intrigued as it would mean we’re never just solely in one process but have both going on simultaneously.

Any thoughts?

Its relevant to me because I think i get my feeling of wellness when my body starts coming off its glucose from food stores and starts using glycogen stores. And throughout the glycogen depletion process I feel really good. I think it coincides with my insulin levels being really low at this point. Has anyone heard of anything like feelings of calmness/confidence/positivity during glycogen depletion phase or very low insulin levels? As I work in an office there’s very little I do in terms of energy output so I can make it last a good few hours. It may even last into ketosis, I need to experiment. I think basically low insulin makes me feel really good so I want to do what I can to keep my insulin as low as possible often and improve my insulin sensitivity.

Furiousfaster

So nice to read such a well versed comment. Well done on your weight loss, your motivation is inspiring!

Also won $120 bucks for the works biggest loser! Might have KFC for tea to celebrate!

Haha celebrating your weightloss with KFC? What? 😉

Congratulations though! Good job!