Hi everyone! I have been under an incredible amount of stress for a number of days (work 14+ hour days, nuisance acquaintances, family death). First couple of days I was distracted eating, but I realized this is a very ineffective...
Essentially. I fasted down 15lbs in about a month. (out of the 50 ish my doc told me I need to lose) But due to work I've started stress eating and gained back 10 lbs. Aside from exercise (I am but still eating...
​ What can I do about this stress eating? It happened again over the last couple of days. I'll be doing a fast, it's going great, and then I get stressed out at work and I end up binging on a ton...
Just venting, ladies... I've been doing really well with the fasting and even got to the lowest weight just a week ago. But now hubby is away and there are other stressors in life and I can't stop eating...! Most of it...
Like the title says 50F. Struggling with stopping and starting. 5’4” 165 lbs. most comfortable at 125 lbs. Can’t seem to stay on track once stress hits and I’m in my head. Any encouragement or advice appreciated! FWIW I...
Any advice for fasting and stress? I am an adoptive parent of 2 special needs children and now suddenly caring for an additional 1 year old AND newborn foster children. Add working from home due to Covid. Stress is a...
I’ve been doing IF for a few weeks. I’m enjoying it, for the most part. I got over the hunger and actually enjoy the feeling of fasting in the morning. However, after a long night or day (or multiple) fasting gets...
My job can be pretty stressful at times. It’s a desk job and I work from home. When I get stressed, my body wants to eat. If I have a low stress day, I can hit my 18 hour fast...
I've been doing IF for a long time now, before I had 2 meals, and everything was ok. When I started working from home I'm went OMAD. There is a lot of pressure in my job and I feel really...
Its like the old stressors don't seem like that big of a deal now compared to not eating 23 hours a day.
I'm a 25 yo female with a rounded but muscular body type (does that make sense?) In other words, I'm curvy and if I'm not careful I will gain weight easily/I'm not naturally thin BUT I tend to gain muscle...
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Hello, first post, I think, maybe second. I’ve done OMAD for months now. I have lost some but I combine working out so I think my fat is going away and I’m building muscle. XXL to Large...
Hi all, I finished my first 72 hour dry fast this week and am feeling super hyped about it and eager to incorporate dry fasting more into my lifestyle (my main goals are weight loss (60 lbs to lose) and...
[Here](https://www.lipedema.org/patients) is a brief overview of lipedema. (Note: lipedema, not to be confused with lymphodema.) Because this type of fat is resistant to exercise and caloric deficit, as seen in the extreme [here](https://miro.medium.com/max/580/1*ASNgelAKGB1_pZUJF0rasA.jpeg), I'm curious if there are any fasting mechanisms...
TLDR: First 72 hour fast after a 16 hour trial a day before, went well, had a few interesting take-aways and will do it again. Motivation is getting my body repaired after clubbing it with alcohol and stress...
Do you guys see a pattern to your weight loss? As in, when you fast (more than IF), do you lose weight during that fast? Does it happen during your fast or after? I've been tracking my weight and I still...
Hello Its been about 3 years since I started practicing different forms of intermittent fasting, usually a 19/5 or 16/8, skipping the breakfast and lunch, almost everyday. I can confirm all the benefits if its done with some precautions regarding...
What causes vitamin levels to deplete? Is it stress? Is it food? Is it physical activity?
So I’m relatively lean for a athletic female petite. I’m ready for at least a 3 day fast. My goal is 5 days. I’m excited for the calm feeling of not having to think about food. Honestly eating is just...
My journey with IF so far. Hopefully it helps some of you. 1. After experimenting with so many different protocols and nothing to show for it, started with IF. Classic 16:8. Broke a plateau I've had for a long time. 1st...
Would not be able to exercise most probably. Height - 6 ft Current Weight - 195.8 pounds Other info - I've been fat for around perhaps all my life. Last 12 years to be exact. Current age is 22 and a half....
I'm on 72h fasts, and not eating is easy. But a few times a day my thoughts wander to the refeeds. I plan what exactly will I be eating on the refeed day. I think about all those wonderful all-you-can-eat buffets. My...
This question sounds f'kd up and cigarettes arent really nutrition related but its in the realm of health so.. and im not promoting anything nor i like any of those but i have seen so many people on this sub...
Given that fasting increases cortisol levels which causes our bodies to store fat, I was wondering what the impact of fasting was on chronically stressed individuals or individuals with anxiety
A bit of background : I’m 36F, 5’4, and started in Jan 22 at 74kg/163lbs. I lost 11kg/25lbs over 6 months with CICO. Being then a month postpartum and breastfeeding, I was working within a quite comfortable limit of...
So I want to start off by saying I have not seen a doctor nor am I a medical professional. I am however a big fan and true believer in the power of fasting. Please don't tell me to see a...
Ok so I knew I had to lose some fat after lots of stress eating for some months, and to be honest I had stress anxiety and great sadness, so I do OMAD( one meal a day) for now and...
I feel like something not discussed in dieting is the stress of work, espepcially the mental stress and rigor of different professions impact on diet. i find myself without consciously thinking grabbing snacks as i 'take a break' between meals...
I'm a 5'7", 27 year old female who weighs 192.5, and works 10-14 hour cooking shifts 5 days a week, split roughly as 1/2 standing prep under mild stress (no running or wicked fast cutting, but quick deliberate actions with...
I always hear how important nutrition is in mental health & feeling your best, how true is this?
Hi there I am a 21 year old M. I weigh 56Kg am 175cm and have a body fat of roughly 12.5%. I run 3 times a week but not more than 4 km. I have been interested in longer...
Hey! I'm 19F and yesterday I decided I want to try IF mainly for health reasons; it is said to help with conditions like tinnitus, which I have along with hyperacusis (hearing sensitivity). I also wanted to improve my focus. I'm...
33M 6'2" Some back story: Years ago I went through cancer treatment (CLL) and was a bit overweight at the time (200lbs) and went vegan and fasted a lot and got down to around 167. I always had small lipomas around my...
Hey guys, I've recently started doing IF and have mainly been doing OMAD and 20:4 IF with 16:8 on weekends. Originally I thought that IF was simple and that was one of the things that drew me to it, but...
So I did my first five day DF back in Nov. Had a couple of weeks break and then a seven day DF finished weak before Christmas. (For health and Spiritual/Emotional) I did both of these fasts on meds: Sarotex 50mg,...
I am a 46F, and my current weight is 210lbs. I apologize in advance for the long post. The past two years were very stressful and took a toll on me. I have rheumatoid arthritis and I got really...
Hi everyone! Looking for some motivation to start fasting again. Some background about me: I used to fast pretty regularly, 3-5 days every month + OMAD in between. Last 2 years turned out to be a hell of a stress, so...
I'm not getting the answer I'm looking for when trying to research this. Most fasting articles tell you ramp up, start with an 8-12 hour fast, then 16 and so on. After a few weeks, you can do longer fasts...
I’ve doing IF for many years to loose and maintain quite a bit of weight. 16:10 was my typical fast eat time. I stopped IF when I was pregnant and I am now 7+ months postpartum and I’m trying to do...
Bit of backstory, about 3 years ago some stuff happened in my life and I decided, on a whim, to fast for a couple of days. I'd heard about the mental and physical benefits and boy did I feel them....
Today has been tough for some reason! I’ve been able to do 20/4 pretty consistently and going down to 16/8 when time or plans don’t line up. But this week has just been a haze of stress and emotional eating....
So I find myself having a hard time getting back into fasting and not wanting to eat way too many calories once I get done now that my job is causing a lot of stress. And I not even talking...
Hey group! Always happy to be here amongst friends. My(35 F) wedding is coming up in 7 weeks and I still need to lose 6 kg to feel really comfortable on my day / for pictures. I’ve fasted for 15 years and...
Antioxidants are a key ingredient in our body’s defense mechanisms to combat free radicals and oxidative stress, but from my very limited knowledge on the subject and just going off what I read on the old internet, too many can...
Be careful, people - as the article says, get good medical advice before drastically changing your diet: Liquid diets like those favoured by Shane Warne can strain heart, say experts Professor Garry Jennings, the Heart Foundation’s chief medical adviser said that, in...
### I have been doing fasting 16/8 for 4 weeks now, I have lose 4 kilos and I'm very happy with my new life style. But, there is always a but isn't it? My wife is very concerned about me...
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/skipping-breakfast-fasting-compromised-immune-system I don't know how it works but I do wonder if it's the stress of not being fed that lowers the test animals immune response. I mean, cortisol and adrenaline do wreak havoc in the body and what's more stressful...
Per the advice of wonderful folks on this sub, I ate at maintenance for 2 months until recently to stop the severe hair loss I had been experiencing. Maintenance eating helped slow down hair loss. But since I still have...
I have to eat every three hours when i am working, if i don't then i get very confused/anxious and shaky. I believe that we evolved to eat far less often yet my metabolism feels like it was always this...
My anxiety is almost gone,my stress is almost over and I’m feeling so much more calm while doing IF now. Anyone else experiencing this too?☺️
My main problem has been comfort eating mainly to deal with stress rather than sadness or anger. The main thing inhibiting me from long periods of fasting is stress, I get the urge to eat but I’m not hungry. I...
this whole week i’ve not been motivated at all, and except for a 36 on sunday, my fasts ended at 20 hours or so and i ate more than my TDEE. i was doing well for the first two weeks...
Tl;dr Female hormones screwed up my life. Used to be #150, didn't like some loose skin (went from 200-150 in about 6-8 months previous to this, on CICO and strength training/soccer, about three years ago, after kids) so I purposefully went...
I've searched but found no clear answer to this. My understanding is that fasting puts stress on the body causing autophagy and so you should avoid doing anything that reduces that stress such as taking a multivitamin while fasting. Would...
Male, 59yo, married 29 years, two grown children. Im back to 324, i was down to 286 in july. I guess im a stress eater. Between being in the hospital 4 times last year for pneumonia, afib and heart...
I got emotional driving to work listening to "Hounds of Love" and I couldn't stop crying. I'm laughing out loud right now just thinking about it. For reference, I am not a big crier. I'm only 80hrs in. What gives?...
So anyway, I've been trying to accomplish an extended fast the last few weeks but have ended up just giving in and breaking early. The longest I've gone so far in the past two weeks was 42 hours. I'm aiming...
Let this sink in. The obesity crisis since 1976 has occurred even though we ate about 450 calories MORE in 1976 than now. That is, we’ve cut calories by 450/day and increased obesity. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/15/age-of-obesity-shaming-overweight-people So here’s the first big surprise:...
Hello guys, I wanted to share my journey with IF and why it is not suitable for everyone. I am 24 yo female, 61 kg in weight (135,5 lbs) and 170 cm tall (5.57 foot) so I already had quite...
I have been OMAD since January 1st. I lost 5lbs the first week then it abruptly stopped. Still doing OMAD but I’m not moving from the initial lost. Did anyone else experience this? Any advice or tips? Thank you all!...
Intermittent fasting for the weeks or so. I'm 15 hours into a fast. Wow up at 5:30 inexplicably. Ate too much chocolate the day before. Work stress. Money stress. The kids are yelling, already had coffee, and I'm so, so, so...
I got Hungry Root and love the service. I can only cook in the evening which is my worse time to eat and I also have a child to feed. I make the meal for both of us...
What do you think abut this? https://www.isical.ac.in/~goutam.paul/onion.pdf I always thought that garlic is holy grail in almost everything, but now I am worried if its even safe..
Some people just have dull skin and dull eyes, and others are bright and fresh looking even if they're older.
Truth is, I’m not hungry. But I’m currently stressed out because of schoolwork, and sometimes when I’m stressed I fall into the trap of “snacking” or eating a meal out of boredom/stress. Doing my best to not fall into that trap!
Hey! I just wanted to ask how "deep" can dry fasting get to experience healing from physical and psychological trauma? What have you experienced or what anecdotals have you heard? I have had several issue during my life. I have had...
I started IF in 2018 and stuck with it pretty religiously til March 2020. I was in the best shape of my life. But then my mom’s health took a turn for the worst. I became her 24/7 caregiver. The...
For the women of this community, I need some help. So I've been doing rolling 72s (more actually it's 84s since I go to the next morning) for the past two and a half weeks. I set a challenge for...
I have been practicing IF for a long time and had some problems with drinking my morning coffee. So, I was long looking for ways how to maintain my fast making it until 12. I am sharing my solution to...
I lost 50 pounds last year and have gained back 30 this year. I had a really stressful period financially in January and I basically reversed my diet and started snacking on high-carb stuff and not watching calories anymore. I'd like...
I’m a soon to be 50 yr old peri-menopausal female. I combined IF with low-carb in October 18:6 (some times 20:4) and had a modicum of success, maybe 12lbs in 3wks, but most of that was purely diet change and...
Hello all, It seems nowadays everyone is sharing threads on supplement stacks and how important they are great for preventing inflammation and the oxidative stress that occurs in our bodies. I know there are studies that show that a lot of...
hello all, I've managed to lose around 14lbs / 1 stone in weight since late Jan through fasting regimens. Started off with OMAD then tried a few 36 / 42 hr fasts, it's all very mixed up. My problem is...
The short answer is yes, the longer answer is below. Do you know that every 7 of out 10 people in South Asia is deficient in vitamin d and nearly 1 billion people worldwide are thought to be deficient in the...
I was too broke for groceries while waiting on my new job to start. So I've just been having coffee with a splash of almond milk and a Tbsp of coconut oil, water, and about 400 additional calories each day...
When you exceed a certain number of hours of fasting, around 20 hours, your body starts producing something called Reverse T3, which is used to reduce metabolism. To understand what reverse T3 is, we need to know what metabolism is...
As a lot of people in this sub are here to reap the benefits of IF and lose weight, I wanted to mention how important is having your family’s support through this. I’ve been stressing a lot because I wanted to...
If I am fasting just to fix my awful digestion issues, can I still have 2 tables of spoons of sauerkraut for probiotics? it is 5 calories. Idk what caused my digestion issues. Maybe my chronic stress or herniated discs...
31F, \~142 lbs, trying to get down to 130. I've been doing 16:8 for about a month now (usually fasting for more like 12 hrs on weekends), doing fasted workouts \~4 days a week and non-fasted workouts 1-2 days a...
Hello, Has anyone here had success in shrinking a meningioma tumor with water or dry fasting? Or any kind of benign brain tumor? I'm open to trying some alternative methods to shrink this thing before going under the knife. I...
I recently gained 40 pounds in one year and it makes me super depressed. I went from 130lbs to 170lbs. I'm not new to fasting, I've been water fasting on and off since 2018, and have done the master cleanse...
I am new to fasting . I have been doing 16:8 for the last two months and I’m pretty used to it . I would like to do 36h fast once a week now . My first two 36 hours...
Anyone ever accidentally fast for extended amounts of time? I am in a really stressful situation with having to move in less than a week, and didn't sleep two nights in a row, and haven't eaten since Tuesday night so I...
For a few months I was fasting very easily. 20 hours a day was no problem, but suddenly if I go more than 10, I get extremely sick to my stomach and have this incredible gnawing hunger like my stomach...
I’ve been doing IF for … a month maybe? With OMAD over the past few weeks, though I do a weekly 46-48 hour fast. I’ve been lucky in that I don’t get hungry during the fast, but I’ve noticed that...
I lost a lot a weight in my early 20’s from not eating due to stress and I kept it off. I realize how I was essentially fasting but also that I have a genetic disposition to insulin resistance so...
I've been water fasting for weight loss for days (I'm very overweight). It makes me feel really well, both mentally and physically, and I look forward to the health benefits. I've also been watching a lot of Dr. Fung to...
Hello team, I am not sure what I am doing wrong with following IF. I am a 46M, former military, in decent shape but want to lose weight. I have been following an 18/6 plan with a "cheat day" on Sunday....
I feel so horrible right now and I have nowhere and nobody else to talk about this with. I have struggled with weight my entire life. I’ve always been overweight. I decided to make a change last year around August....
Hi all, I've been IFing for a while now, 16:8 all the way up to rolling 48hs, as well as extended fasts. I've been really thinking about what a more sustainable, compliant, stressful (in a good way, and effective (for weight loss)...
Very new to IF and hoping for weight loss and to reshape my relationship with food (stress/ emotional eating). I've tried calorie restriction and keto but found them difficult to stick to and annoying to have to think about food...
I am working on getting back to IF. I am really trying to do OMAD where I have about a 3 hour window. I am drinking water but I still feel hungry in the mouth. It’s like...
I’m a software developer. This is sometimes a very demanding job intellectually. I work as a contractor and I’m thinking that when this one is up next month, I’ll switch to a non-coding job that isn’t stressful for...
Can you guys please help? Normally I wake up at 9 ish. I eat 16:8, from 10:30am-6:30pm. It is fine. (I go to sleep at 10:45pm but I am up from 5:45am-7:45am and then go back to sleep for a...
Started at the beginning of the year. 1st week = great 2nd week = awful; overate 3rd week = great 4th week = even worst than 2nd. Feels like I’m binge eating. I had such a stressful week and am coping with...
I have been doing variously 16:8, 18:6, 20:4 since June 2021. I have lost around 20-30 lbs since then (5’2” CW 140 as of this morning). Exercise has been walking between 3-4 miles per day. Anyway, recently I decided to...
I usually stop eating at 4. I’ve screwed up in the past couple of weeks and gained 6 lbs. I’ve been doing well for the past two weeks but can’t seem to lose weight. I’ve even gone to bed hungry...
Fell off the radar, the past 2 months. I have surprisingly only gained back 1.5 kgs however, I feel very unhealthy and tired all the time eating within a 12h eating window. I am starting off with 22:2 fast not...