Intermittent fasting

[Chad32]

I tried it recently, and I don't think it worked too well for me. Granted I didn't drink gallons of water, but it didn't help me lose weight for long, and my normal amount of energy went down. It might not have been the only problem, as I went through other changes in my life, but I've fallen off the wagon.

The fat that in video is mentioned is the fat that is in our bodies as well besides the Keto diet(High Fat, Low carb, High Vegetable).

Well I didn't do it for six weeks, or much longer than six weeks. Like I said, I don't know what exactly it was, if it was actually just one thing, but I haven't been feeling like myself lately, and I do feel like I have a bit more energy now that I've started eating breakfast again. I was on the 8 hours on, 16 off, IF plan.

[Angrboda]

Why do you think the digestive system needs a rest? Repair and clean up what?

We get addicted to food and pretty soon abuse it to the point where we eat just too much food and get fatter. Body instead of removing dead cells and building fresh ones is forced to digest excessive amounts of food which start to poisons body.

No, we do not "get addicted" to food.

[brewer]

Where are you getting this information from?

I watched videos of doctor and diet experts lectures on diets.

Doctors and diet experts can be quacks, you may have found some.

Edit: Just saw the vid. Do you know Dr. Eric Berg DC (chiropractor) is a well known quack?

https://dirtyscam.com/reviews/dr-eric-berg/

https://www.casewatch.net/board/chiro/berg.shtml

[Mermaid]

Poisons the body? What kind of poison are we talking about?

[LadyForCamus]

Why do you think the digestive system needs a rest? Repair and clean up what?

We get addicted to food and pretty soon abuse it to the point where we eat just too much food and get fatter. Body instead of removing dead cells and building fresh ones is forced to digest excessive amounts of food which start to poison body.

Literally nothing in the above paragraph is physiologically or scientifically accurate.

[Chad32]

What makes you think we can't get addicted to food? I thought that was a big factor in people becoming obese. Because they eat all the time, even if they're not really hungry, since you don't need to eat constantly to survive. Yet some people do.

Also the ketosis thing does explain why sometimes I'll try to shed some pounds, and drop 8+ in a week, but after that it's a struggle just to drop 1.

[LadyForCamus]

Initial weight loss on the ‘keto’ diet, as with any low carb diet, is attributed to the fluid loss that results from the body depleting its liver and muscle glycogen stores. You start eating carbs again, the water weight will come back on fairly quickly.

[purplepurpose]

I have much better mental stability after I gave up lot's of tasty food and replaced it with water. It works, even if I don't know biology behind it.

[Angrboda]

What makes you think we can't get addicted to food? I thought that was a big factor in people becoming obese. Because they eat all the time, even if they're not really hungry, since you don't need to eat constantly to survive. Yet some people do.

Also the ketosis thing does explain why sometimes I'll try to shed some pounds, and drop 8+ in a week, but after that it's a struggle just to drop 1.

Fine. Let me clarify then. There is a difference between unhealthy eating behaviors resulting from psychological addiction to the pleasurable feelings associated with eating and ordinary eating in which one responds to a normal feeling of hunger provoked by the body's need for nutrition. The former may be an addiction, but the latter is not. Since the OP was speaking without qualification, I assume he was speaking about the latter. Do you think that normal eating is an addictive behavior or that it regularly becomes addictive such that a general proscription of fasting with the intent to counteract such addictions is necessary?

[Chad32]

No, probably not.