Today I start my rabbit diet. - Journal

I've never had a rabbit! What color are you?
I've done fasting, water fasting, not vegetable.
Have you done this before?
What is your goal for time and weight?
I will need to do a fast soon...
All the best!

 

Lol you're like, look at the picture, I'm white.
Yeah, I get that.. but if you can lose 2lbs a week thru exercise or calorie restriction, that works too.

Hmm. Not terrible. Stress can make it difficult to diet/fast as well.. any of that?

Replacement? I think calorie restriction and/or cutting out added sugars. Just eating natural foods.

Nice.

 

Congrats for trying.
Stopping to try is the only Way of failing.

For me fast like ascetism is not about discipline and the mind telling the body what to do. When I want a lean body this is approval I m after so there are better ways to find that.

Fasting is more about being intimate with this body. Being prepared to listen to everything it will shout and scream without reacting and going to the fridge.

Why do you want to fast?

I d be happy to fast together with u or @SilentWolfSong (of course everyone should respect doctor advice when fasting>3d)

 

I'm not sure when I'll fast I'm finishing school up and trying to balance life, and right now life is not too balanced. Thanks for offering tho, I'm happy to find another fast-er and I may hit you up in the future!

 

This sounds like unnecessary man, the longer the reboot the tense your body gets, fasting causes stress on your body so i dont recommend this extreme bro?

 

I love fasting.

It’s the mental challenge that’s si stimulating. It’s definitely super difficult and exhaustive, but the mental benefits are great!

Currently, I haven’t been able to do much fasting due my migraines…when those settle down, I’m planning to do a few 3 day fasts.

 

Yes you can!

 

Fasting until you're slim is called crash dieting and it's called this because it's not sustainable. As someone who's struggled with weight loss my entire life, the most progress I've made was when I incorporated small, consistent changes to my diet. As an impatient person, things like crash dieting always appealed to me because I want change now! Yet, I didn't get fat over night or even in the span of one year. It took years and years of negligence. Plus as an addict I have poor judgement since I have been living in extremes most of my life. Going from one extreme to the other isn't going to help that.

For weight loss it is as simple as calories in vs calories out. If you get your macro's setup to the ideal weight you want to be, you can create a deficit that is doable to help reach that goal. Tracking your food intake on an app like Cronometer is a great way to do this and it helps put dieting into a better perspective. Some think tracking food is extreme, but when you compare it to crash dieting or being obese, it's not very extreme.

 

Calories in vs calories out still applies and is not incorrect. I'll give you the same challenge I give to everyone who says it doesn't work, and that is to show me a picture of an obese concentration camp inmate.

I'll be waiting.

Also Dr. Fung is not a reputable source and there are plenty who debunk his positions.

A greate article which does that can be found here:
https://biolayne.com/articles/research/its-not-calories-its-hormones-a-response-to-dr-jason-fung/

"The hormone he typically speaks about is insulin, and he claims that to lose weight, you must control insulin. [49][50][51] Typically, he recommends that people avoid refined carbohydrates (though he doesn’t necessarily advocate for low carb in general) and practice intermittent fasting to control insulin. [52] He notes that insulin is the fat storage hormone. [53] While insulin does inhibit lipolysis, fat oxidation, and increases fat uptake into adipose, its effects on body fat levels are more complicated. [54][55] Dr. Fung and those who focus on insulin as the primary driver of body fatness over energy balance tend to focus on insulin inhibiting fat oxidation and lipolysis. [56] These are two required steps to burn stored body fat. First, the fatty acids must be liberated from their stored triacylglyceride form from adipose tissue; this is lipolysis. These fatty acids must then be oxidized through beta-oxidation, whereby the fatty acids are cleaved into 2 carbon units to form acetyl-CoA, which can then enter the Krebs cycle for energy production/oxidative respiration to produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the energy currency of the cell. Cool, right? Seems pretty straightforward that if insulin impedes this process, it should cause fat gain or impede fat loss. This is only one side of the body fatness equation, however. This ‘insulin theory’ of body fatness completely neglects the other side of the body fatness equation: how much fat is stored into adipose tissue.

The equation could be expressed as a Body fat balance equation whereby Body Fat Balance = Fat stored – Fat oxidized.

So what, right? After all, insulin increases fat storage. Again, it’s not that simple. Before you blame insulin for the cause of obesity, understand that fat can be stored in adipose without increases in insulin via a protein called acylation stimulating protein (ASP). [57] Why is this important? It’s crucial to understand that fat can be stored in adipose cells without increases in insulin because of dietary fat, which is stored in adipose cells. In fact, of the fat that winds up in adipose tissue, over 98% of it comes from dietary fat, and less than 2% comes from dietary carbohydrates. [58] Now consider that if we truly want to test whether or not it’s calories or insulin that are the primary drivers of obesity, we have to compare diets that are equal in calories but differ in insulin response. This can be easily done by varying the amount of carbohydrate vs. fat in the diet (fat isn’t an insulin secretagogue) while keeping protein constant and examining the amount of fat gained or lost. It’s essential to keep protein constant because protein increases energy expenditure significantly more than carbohydrates or fats, if you recall. Fortunately, we have a plethora of studies to draw from when examining this question.

A meta-analysis of over 20 controlled feeding studies (food was either provided to subjects or the subjects were housed in a controlled environment where adherence was not an issue) demonstrated that there were virtually no differences in fat loss between diets that were high in carbohydrate vs. those low in carbohydrate when calories and protein were equated. [59] In fact, this study showed small favoritism for fat loss towards the diets that were lower in fat. However, this difference (approximately 16g more fat loss per day) is likely clinically irrelevant. [60]

One of the studies in the meta-analysis examined a very low carb (~30g/d) ketogenic diet versus a very high carb (>300g/d) diet. Both were equal in calories/protein, and the goal was to examine their effects on fat loss.[61] Not only did this study show that fat loss slightly favored the low-fat group, but the study also demonstrated that the low fat group had total daily insulin levels that were ~47% lower than the low carb group. If Dr. Fung’s claims about insulin mattering vs. calories were true, then these results could not be accurate. The results are a DIRECT REFUTATION of Dr. Fung’s claims regarding insulin."

It addresses why Fungs approach is incorrect both on his stance against calories in vs caloires out and his insulin theory.

 

I edited my original response to include a link you should read as a Dr. Fung quackery promoter.

 

Hey, man! How much fat did you lose on juice fast to date?

 

Hurrah for fasting- I'm fasting today too.

Important to pick a day without too much stuffs going on.

I've got a easy day at work, and some matcha and ginger teas to accompany me.

Tomorrow my gut and mind will feel much clearer after a day of rest.

Good luck fellow fasters!

 

For a second I thought you were eating rabbits. Lol!