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Fasting has changed my life.
Fast for 20 hours, eat for 4, then do whatever I want 1 day a week. I've lost 50 pounds and kept it off for 8 years. Any time I start to creep back up, I'll start fasting again. Magic.
The "do whatever you want one day a week" implies that you do the 20/4 six days a week?
Correct
What do you mean eat for 4 hours, like constantly?
Called fast/feast. You can just eat whatever, whenever.
Most people feasibly can't eat enough in 4 hours to overeat.
It is simply a method of self control and calorie restriction for people who have trouble otherwise. I did it for a while and it worked very well.
I wish I was most people...
Same. I don't get hungry or full so I developed a terrible relationship with food where I eat when I am bored or as a trained response to video games and such. I will forget to eat or eat way too much. I pushed my limits when I was heavily counting calories in university one time with an open cafeteria and ate something like 8000 calories and one sitting. I almost puked from the pure volume, but I could just keep going.
The one bright side is that doing a water fast is easy in that I don't get hungry. I have gone 17 days before and felt fine. But then I love cooking and I was just constantly thinking about food lol
What do you mean "eat for 4"?
What OP is referring to is intermittent fasting. In a 24 hour day, you don't eat or fast for x # hours and then allow yourself a time window of y # hours where you are allowed to eat. In OP's case, they are fasting for 20 hours and allow themselves a 4 hour time period per day where they can eat. It helps with a calorie deficit by limiting when you can eat, rather than mindless eating throughout the day. It can be a helpful tool for some.
Makes sense, but I think I'd end up packing a whole day's worth of meals into that four hours.
It's possible to do, but harder than it seems. Especially if you add in requirements like getting a few cups of green veggies and a 100g of protein. That shit will fill you up fast!
Yeah, I suppose if you have the willpower to go through with it you're probably gonna do it the right way and not just get a huge plate of Chinese food
Sometimes I do just eat a huge plate of Chinese food, but I'll feel really gross after. It's like my body knows it needs the best food so I'm always craving green veggies and nuts
I'm not a fat fuck so I haven't done this.
But once I was going to an all you can eat meat place after work so I had a small breakfast and drank water in bulk through the day or your stomach closes. I felt full the next day haha.
It's kinda hard to eat loads if you haven't eaten for a while.
Eat for 4 hours.
So in one day, do not eat during 20h period, then eat during a 4h period.