Ūruz
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So I have become pretty fat during last couple of years. Mainly due to depression—me using food to sedate and distract myself when I feel like shit. I haven't weighted myself recently but I am approximating I am close to 300 pounds right now (maybe 285 or so), cos I was 275 last time I weighted and I think I have gained a few pounds since. When calculating my BMI it puts me in the obese category. And I feel like shit physically, and obviously it's unhealthy, so I want to lose that.
The fastest and easiest way to do that would be just water fasting. I have been looking up a lot of Youtube videos of medical doctors like Dr. Jason Fung, Dr Pradip Jamnadas, Dr Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo, Dr Michael Klaper and others, talking about the benefits of fasting and how it is very healthy for you. And not just intermittent fasting but even extended water fasting (3 days, 5 days, 10 days, etc) seems to have a lot of benefit for health. It keeps the cancer away, lowers inflammation, increases joint health, keeps blood pressure and diabetes in check and so many other benefits. Also has a lot of psychological benefits like lowered depression, increased motivation, helps to get rid of food addictions and unhealthy overeating habits, etc. And then I also found people like this Snake Diet guy on Youtube, who is definitely a crazy drill sergeant character, and not an MD, but nonetheless has coached a lot of people to lose weight, and keep it off, through extended water fasting.
So I have decided that I will start long term fasting to lose all that weight. Maybe start with few 24h fasts, then increase to 3 day and maybe eventually 10 day fasts. Then refeed with some plant based whole foods in between fasts. I have some experience with fasting in the past, but that was years ago and I was not as fat as I am now back then. If I would need to lose this weight the normal way I think it would take me like 2 years. So this will be the fastest and most simple way to lose all that extra weight I have; I think there is no need to waste all that time to try to go slowly when we could just fast, cos we know fasting is healthy and safe. And I think it will help me to overcome my bad eating habits and food addictions, so when I stop fasting eventually it will be easier for me to just keep eating healthy balanced diet and stick to it long term.
I mean think about it: when you look at other addictions, like drug or alcohol addiction, the standard practice is to go cold turkey, because this has the biggest success rate. When you are drinking a bottle of whiskey every day it's gonna be hard to slowly decrease the amount to half a bottle, then a glass, etc, cos the temptation is just too big—it's like a constant tease (like p-subs, if I may use a nofap analogy; you will relapse to porn eventually). It makes sense to go cold turkey. But when we try to get rid of food addictions for some reason that's not what we recommend, which is just silly to me. It would make more sense to do some extended fasting (which has the physiological benefit of suppressing hunger) and cut out food off completely. So then by the time you start eating again the bad habits are somewhat faded and it's easier to just stick to healthy eating long term.
Maybe we do not recommend it for food addicts cos we used to have this wrong idea in medicine that fasting is bad for health. But now we know it's BS and in fact the opposite is true. I believe once these medical facts go more mainstream in couple of decades every weight loss psychologist will be recommending extended water fasting as a default.
I'm on day 10 of nofap as of writing this and I already start to feel some of the hormonal benefits of nofap kicking in: more motivation and not feeling as depressed as I usually do; I imagine it will only get better as I continue my nofap streak. And I want to use this nofap boost of motivation to get into fasting. I think water fasting could amplify the positive benefits of nofap too (when you look into Taoist or Hindu religious traditions, such as Fangzhongshu or Brahmacharya, they always recommend some fasting for celibates).
There are some people who I have found doing it for spiritual reasons. Like this guy who says he did 40 day water fast, which put him in touch with God. Now personally I am not too religious (mostly agnostic) but I would not mind exploring the spiritual side of fasting as well. I have just recently gotten in meditation and would be interesting to see how it effects it. Who knows, maybe some synchronicities show up and guide me, like it did for that guy. I can't say I am not curious.
Anybody else has done or planning to do fasting for weight loss, health or spiritual reasons? Would be interesting to hear from you. If not then I challenge you to try it out with me! Even if you do not need to lose any weight try it anyways just from the spiritual and health benefits.
Also, by the way, there are links to some of the best videos I have watched so far on fasting:
The fastest and easiest way to do that would be just water fasting. I have been looking up a lot of Youtube videos of medical doctors like Dr. Jason Fung, Dr Pradip Jamnadas, Dr Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo, Dr Michael Klaper and others, talking about the benefits of fasting and how it is very healthy for you. And not just intermittent fasting but even extended water fasting (3 days, 5 days, 10 days, etc) seems to have a lot of benefit for health. It keeps the cancer away, lowers inflammation, increases joint health, keeps blood pressure and diabetes in check and so many other benefits. Also has a lot of psychological benefits like lowered depression, increased motivation, helps to get rid of food addictions and unhealthy overeating habits, etc. And then I also found people like this Snake Diet guy on Youtube, who is definitely a crazy drill sergeant character, and not an MD, but nonetheless has coached a lot of people to lose weight, and keep it off, through extended water fasting.
So I have decided that I will start long term fasting to lose all that weight. Maybe start with few 24h fasts, then increase to 3 day and maybe eventually 10 day fasts. Then refeed with some plant based whole foods in between fasts. I have some experience with fasting in the past, but that was years ago and I was not as fat as I am now back then. If I would need to lose this weight the normal way I think it would take me like 2 years. So this will be the fastest and most simple way to lose all that extra weight I have; I think there is no need to waste all that time to try to go slowly when we could just fast, cos we know fasting is healthy and safe. And I think it will help me to overcome my bad eating habits and food addictions, so when I stop fasting eventually it will be easier for me to just keep eating healthy balanced diet and stick to it long term.
I mean think about it: when you look at other addictions, like drug or alcohol addiction, the standard practice is to go cold turkey, because this has the biggest success rate. When you are drinking a bottle of whiskey every day it's gonna be hard to slowly decrease the amount to half a bottle, then a glass, etc, cos the temptation is just too big—it's like a constant tease (like p-subs, if I may use a nofap analogy; you will relapse to porn eventually). It makes sense to go cold turkey. But when we try to get rid of food addictions for some reason that's not what we recommend, which is just silly to me. It would make more sense to do some extended fasting (which has the physiological benefit of suppressing hunger) and cut out food off completely. So then by the time you start eating again the bad habits are somewhat faded and it's easier to just stick to healthy eating long term.
Maybe we do not recommend it for food addicts cos we used to have this wrong idea in medicine that fasting is bad for health. But now we know it's BS and in fact the opposite is true. I believe once these medical facts go more mainstream in couple of decades every weight loss psychologist will be recommending extended water fasting as a default.
I'm on day 10 of nofap as of writing this and I already start to feel some of the hormonal benefits of nofap kicking in: more motivation and not feeling as depressed as I usually do; I imagine it will only get better as I continue my nofap streak. And I want to use this nofap boost of motivation to get into fasting. I think water fasting could amplify the positive benefits of nofap too (when you look into Taoist or Hindu religious traditions, such as Fangzhongshu or Brahmacharya, they always recommend some fasting for celibates).
There are some people who I have found doing it for spiritual reasons. Like this guy who says he did 40 day water fast, which put him in touch with God. Now personally I am not too religious (mostly agnostic) but I would not mind exploring the spiritual side of fasting as well. I have just recently gotten in meditation and would be interesting to see how it effects it. Who knows, maybe some synchronicities show up and guide me, like it did for that guy. I can't say I am not curious.
Anybody else has done or planning to do fasting for weight loss, health or spiritual reasons? Would be interesting to hear from you. If not then I challenge you to try it out with me! Even if you do not need to lose any weight try it anyways just from the spiritual and health benefits.
Also, by the way, there are links to some of the best videos I have watched so far on fasting:
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