Hi all, I’ve tried losing weight by eating healthy in the past but I always end up making the wrong choices and binging to the point of weight gain. I used to be a decent weight but after a bad hamstring injury I fell into a physical depression and gained the most weight I’ve ever had in my life. Now I’m a 28M 5’8” 270+ ILBs. I looked fastest weight loss methods as I’d like to lose as much as I can before I have to see my wife’s family in Spain during the summer. I’d like to give fasting a try as it seems to be the fastest way to lose the weight according to the internet. What is the best way to incorporate this into my life? I tend to exaggerate at times and I’d like to just dive right into it and not eat for 5 days as I see people have done. But I presume that’s setting myself up for failure. I want to expedite the process, would attempting a one day off/one day on schedule for eating a meal be possible for me? Or for those of you who have had success, do you think it would result in failure? I play soccer twice a week in a recreational team, Tuesday and Thursday are the days I play, I plan on going to the gym when not playing, will I not have any energy if I try to exercise/ play sports when fasting? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
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there are ways to ease into it, starting with OMAD, eating once a day, different schedules such as 20:4, 16:8, ADF (alternate day fasting). the best option is to couple fasting with a keto diet for faster results. i’ve lost 140lbs in under a year from it, just do a lot of research into it and understand it’s not easy, it’s mentally very hard but incredibly worth it in the end.
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I’m a binge eater so I find ADF fasting the right thing for me. I know it I just hold off on my non eating days and eating day is just around the corner and because I worked so hard to stick to it, I don’t mess up my calorie counting when eat day shows up!
Eta: I try to go to the gym every day for more reasons than weight loss. My fasting doesn’t really impact this as long as I’m hydrated.