Intermittent fasting guest blog
My friend Tim Ferriss asked me to post an up to date version of my thoughts on intermittent fasting. I wrote a post about a year and a half ago on intermittent fasting that generated numerous comments and questions. Between then and now I’ve received many emails from readers who have gone on intermittent fasts, some with success, others with not so much. The early animal studies that looked so good prompted a number of researchers to look at intermittent fasting as a potential therapeutic tool for humans. I figured it was time for an update.
You can find my two part post on Tim’s blog.
I would be curious to hear from any and all who have given intermittent fasting a good solid try, so feel free to post your thoughts and/or results in the comments section.
IF is my new LC! LC works, but IF works better!! (For the driven winner kind of person, combine the 2 and it’s BAM! POW! Awesome!) IF-ing alone, though, I can eat cookies and still lose weight!!! I just stop eating at 4 pm about 3 days a week and start eating again the next a.m. (I try to wait til late morning) and I lose weight like crazy. If I LC inbetween I lose even more, but if it’s a splurge sort of day with going out to breakfast and a party in the afternoon, I can eat pancakes and cake, and I still lose…it’s a winner!! LC taught me how to make good choices and I will always follow that but I like not having to stress over some bread esp. after 3 years of being so careful. It’s refreshing to just eat and not count and not worry, and then just STOP eating. I feel like a teenager again being sort of carefree! So, IMHO? — SO EASY– it doesn’t even seem fair! And that empty feeling is similair to the feeling of strict LC… it feels the same except I lose more doing it and I get to eat whatever I want! Love it! Dr. Mike, you should get on FB…that’s where loads of normal middle-aged people are…like my mother! I think it’s only cool savvy types who are on Twitter.