I started on Monday after lunch and then continued from Tuesday 28th July to Sat 1st August
This experiment was inspired by the fat fast thread of @Baruney , @nomistheman and @Merrylizard1314 . Thank you all of you.
Background.
I have yoyo dieted for very many years. No diet ever worked for me long term until I started following LCHF. As at Monday last week I had lost 2 stones 11 pounds since April 1st 2014. I had also lost 7 pounds before this date but this took me around 2 years to achieve. My metabolism has suffered greatly by so much dieting and cutting down of calories, so much so that I have very gradually increased the amount I eat to at least 1200-1300 calories a day, sometimes up to about 1800 calories, but never less than 1200. I need to keep my metabolism boosted. I will no longer starve myself to lose weight.
Reasons for undertaking a 5 day fat fast.
There were two reasons I did this.
For all my years of yoyo dieting I believed the statement that to lose weight you had to cut calories, that ‘calories in had to be less than calories out’ for someone to lose weight. This was true for me for my first few diets, but then as I tried harder and harder to lose weight my metabolism slowed down. So much so that in 1997 (? ) I dieted for a month. I consumed 1000 calories a day or less and walked 2 miles every day. I didn’t normally do any exercise at that time so was expecting to lose at least a little weight. I stayed the same. Following the calories in/calories out advice over the years I had slowed my metabolism down so much that I was burning very few calories. Increasing the amount of exercise did nothing to help.
In 2007 my son and I had flu. After 11 days of eating very little, I only lost ½ pound. I realised that reducing my food intake was never going to help me to lose weight. So after a few more bad ideas, I started with my own version of LCHF (I had never heard the name until I joined this forum in 2013) that’s how I lost the 7 pounds in 2 years. Then I worked harder at LCHF to lose the rest when I started my thread last year.
Since around late November last year my weight has stayed around the same, going up and down 3 pounds or so, but I wasn’t managing to lose any more.
This experiment was inspired by the fat fast thread of @Baruney , @nomistheman and @Merrylizard1314 . Thank you all of you.
Background.
I have yoyo dieted for very many years. No diet ever worked for me long term until I started following LCHF. As at Monday last week I had lost 2 stones 11 pounds since April 1st 2014. I had also lost 7 pounds before this date but this took me around 2 years to achieve. My metabolism has suffered greatly by so much dieting and cutting down of calories, so much so that I have very gradually increased the amount I eat to at least 1200-1300 calories a day, sometimes up to about 1800 calories, but never less than 1200. I need to keep my metabolism boosted. I will no longer starve myself to lose weight.
Reasons for undertaking a 5 day fat fast.
There were two reasons I did this.
- Hopefully to lose a few pounds
- To give my metabolism a boost by consuming more calories
For all my years of yoyo dieting I believed the statement that to lose weight you had to cut calories, that ‘calories in had to be less than calories out’ for someone to lose weight. This was true for me for my first few diets, but then as I tried harder and harder to lose weight my metabolism slowed down. So much so that in 1997 (? ) I dieted for a month. I consumed 1000 calories a day or less and walked 2 miles every day. I didn’t normally do any exercise at that time so was expecting to lose at least a little weight. I stayed the same. Following the calories in/calories out advice over the years I had slowed my metabolism down so much that I was burning very few calories. Increasing the amount of exercise did nothing to help.
In 2007 my son and I had flu. After 11 days of eating very little, I only lost ½ pound. I realised that reducing my food intake was never going to help me to lose weight. So after a few more bad ideas, I started with my own version of LCHF (I had never heard the name until I joined this forum in 2013) that’s how I lost the 7 pounds in 2 years. Then I worked harder at LCHF to lose the rest when I started my thread last year.
Since around late November last year my weight has stayed around the same, going up and down 3 pounds or so, but I wasn’t managing to lose any more.
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