Comments on: Intermittent fasting guest blog

By: Jalo Jesper

Jalo Jesper — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:53:33 +0000

Hi Chris!

When you have kept a dinner-to-dinner fast, so you have been about 23 hours without eating, how long time period you are able to eat after that before stopping again? And how long time you will usually fast after that eating period? Actually, would you like to tell me completely your style? What it is in a use?
You say: “method of fasting three times each week from dinner one day until dinner the next day”.
Would you like to write me what one week is in use then? : )
Thanks very much

-Jalo

By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:48:32 +0000

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.

By: Fasting For Weight Loss

Fasting For Weight Loss — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:16:02 +0000

IF works fine for me, but I must admit it won’t work for everybody. Some people just thought that I’m crazy and that my eating habit is really unhealthy. People without fasting expereince may think that fasting is impossible without realising that it is actually possible and with lots of health benefits. I personally enjoy weight loss, better energy level, more focus at work, better skin, better digestion…

By: Tom Taylor

Tom Taylor — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:25:04 +0000

Thanks for this.

I agree, fasting can take a lot of time to adapt. However, from my experience and from the experience of people around me fasting is never as hard a transition as most people feel. To be honest I was IF’s biggest critic after spending 5 years eating 6 meals a day. Rest assured, after taking the leap into fasting I haven’t gone back to that old routine.

I have wrote about some of my experiences, especially my review of Eat Stop Eat at http://www.fatlosstoptips.com/eat-stop-eat-review/

Thanks,

Tom

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:05:07 +0000

Hey Dr. Eades,

We love your site and often reference it on our blog (crossfitrockwall.com). I just came across your IF stuff. My girlfriend and I kept a blog of our first IF experiences from about the same time this article came out. It’s at http://whatwereeatingnow.blogspot.com/.

We both really liked IF. We saw increased strength, energy, time, workout performance, and decreased body fat. We were super lean when we started, and got even leaner.

We IF occasionally now, but not as regularly as we used to. We don’t usually plan the fasts anymore, they just happen. I actually prefer to go into workouts fasted (a 14-15 hour fast is about perfect). I feel hungry and ready to tackle the workout.

Since that last IF blog update, we have continued to improve our diet. I have now gotten rid of all gut irritation and feel better going into workouts with a little food in my stomach. I still prefer to be fasted, though.

By: mary titus

mary titus — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:24:27 +0000

Tom N., In reply to your comment, it did take time to adjust to IFing. Your body takes a very
long time to adjust to anything new and 8 weeks is not enough time to determine success with IF.

By: rachel allen

rachel allen — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:22:24 +0000

one last update before the comment section closes:

started window eating in jan 2009. lost 6pant sizes in about 4months w/increased workouts,moderate carbs of 100g or so a day.

stalled out for two months. eliminated grains, lowered carbs to 20-40 a day.

im now dropping inches like i did in the initial months of IFing. if IFing doenst work, try low carb IFing. its working amazingly well for me.

also, instead of only window eating each day, ive mixed things up with a few normal eating days (except for morning breakfast, ill never do that again) in my case, its helped to fast more intermittently, as stated above. depends on the person i suppose.

thanks to dr.eades for education and info sharing and all the great comments. its going to make the last half of 09 as good as the first half!

By: Tom N

Tom N — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:35:17 +0000

In the Mattson study mentioned in Part 2 of the post, I noticed that the subjects were only followed for 8 weeks (two different 8 week periods). I’ve also noticed people who have posted here and on other boards who said it took a few months to several months to adjust. Could it be that 8 weeks is not enough time to fairly judge the effects? This is not to mention that it only deals with a daily eating window rather than a 24/24 schedule.

I agree. I’ve been all over the place with this IF regimen. The more recent work I’ve seen has overcome my earlier hesitance about IFing.

By: Mary Titus

Mary Titus — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:32:05 +0000

I take out the complication of calories. I figure that my body is running normally, so I must be getting enough calories. I also do not think of fasting as CR since clories should be considered as a percentage of total food intake, not a number. Percentage-wise, I consume more calories per meal than I did before doing IF. Ketogenically speaking, the higher the ketones, the healthier the body ( as long as it isn’t T1 diabetes ). Therefore I consume a lot of fat calories. How many calories would that be? I have no idea. I think that it is more important to be ketogenic for optimal results and optimal health.

By: warner

warner — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:56:11 +0000

Despite the naysayers and reservations, it seems that a simple approach of fasting for 24 hours once per week (without modifying or increasing food intake on other days), would simply reduce your total calorie intake by 14%, about half of that used in CR diets, and is very likely to have nothing but positive benefits. (One of the additional benefits I haven’t seen mentioned here is healing time for someone with GERD.)

I’m not saying one will lose a lot of weight, or have a big reduction in BG, etc. — just that whatever changes do occur are likely to be beneficial. Perhaps you guys are making this more complex than it is.