Re: Health Thread
Posted: 08 Jan 2022 09:22
Any diet.
My wife, who works in bariatric surgery and does weight management and tobacco cessation counseling, said something to me once like 10 years ago that always stuck. And sure;y tells all her patients. But just 'So what is your plan after the diet?'. Always made a lot of sense to me, more about making lifestyle changes. Small little repetitive permanent changes, changing habits.
I am by no means thin and in shape, but I also don't work too hard at it. I mostly try to avoid diets.
However I've done keto before a few times, just to do it, sometimes I just feel like I could use a good 2 week cleanse.
Intermittent fasting is my jam though, just normally, maybe 2-3 days a week I'll hit a good 14-18 hours without trying. I just feel better when I basically skip breakfast, feel like I have a clearer mind for work. Hard though to do it more when making breakfast for 3 little kids and they don't finish stuff, and to not just grab a quick bite or two or if I make extra pancakes/waffles or whatever. But when I want to get back to my normal weight if I'm going in the wrong direction, I'll probably do it more like 5-6 times a week, can usually cut 5 lbs in 2 weeks just doing that and nothing else.
But anyone thinking about fasting, it takes a little practice, but your body will get used to it. So just keep kind of stretching that breakfast time to 9/10 am +, maybe having something real small. I remember it being tough in the beginning. Probably takes a good month of practicing till you get used to it, then it's absolutely nothing once you got it. Even if you don't do it for weeks or months, I find I can just randomly get back into it whenever I want and I honestly don't even notice I missed breakfast. Just get to enjoy that autophagy.
And I feel like fasting is kind of a cheat code for those doing keto. First time on keto, we actually got the urine strips so we could test our ketone levels. Little cheats I feel like could knock you out of ketosis for a day or two. But when you throw in fasting, you can really almost break for a day, have like 5-6 beers (light beers aren't actually horrible, like 3 grams per), then with a fast, you are immediately back in it the next day. Just as long a you don't like have like 5-6 IPAs and a piece of cake or something, lol.