If you’re a thin person like myself, you have to watch that you don’t drop more weight than you want to while doing intermittent fasting, because it’s just so effective. Case in point: I can’t even maintain my current weight, which I feel is too low, while doing one meal a day (OMAD) and intermittent fasting. Heck, even doing two meals a day in a 6-hour window is proving to be so effective that I can’t even keep weight on.
Now, maybe I have a naturally fast metabolism, and maybe years of eating relatively healthy and working out and being underweight in the first place have combined to make my intermittent fasting routine so powerful that I can’t even maintain the weight I’ve been at for years, but in reality, I think it’s just that intermittent fasting, keeping a tight eating window, and occasional intermittent dry fasting work so well that even a very lean person will lose pounds and body fat if they practice this way of eating daily.
I have really committed to intermittent fasting since late January 2019, and now here we are about two months later, and I am down about 6 pounds from when I started, which was completely unintentional, by the way. My plan was to cram enough calories into a tight eating window, while still experiencing the fasting benefits of autophagy and decreased inflammation, while also maintaining my weight or even adding a few pounds of muscle onto my frame. I had done enough research to know this was possible. Yet, it’s proving to be much more difficult than I thought. The intermittent fasting itself is rarely even a challenge anymore. Dry fasting is not even bad. The challenge is doing these things and keeping weight on!
No offense, but I can’t understand how anyone could be overweight or putting on weight while practicing this lifestyle unless your refeed meals and one or two meals a day are filled with sugar and carbs, and no healthy fat or protein. And really, with this information available now, and the thousands of stories and anecdotal evidence online, I can’t believe that any informed person armed with the information on intermittent fasting and eating a low-carb diet would allow themselves to get overweight at all. Believe me, this is not hard. It actually becomes too difficult to not lose too much weight after a while. But I think the problem is that many people actually don’t know these things, and are led astray by propaganda like the U.S. media and the USDA’s food pyramid, which emphasize things like “healthy” whole grains. Meanwhile, the media and millions of people have bought into the vegan and vegetarian lies, not realizing that these lifestyles do not promote optimal health, and instead often promote obesity, the skinny-fat syndrome, and diabetes.
I challenge anyone to exactly follow what people like myself, Cole Robinson, Dr. Jason Fung, or Dr. Mercola say about fasting and the ketogenic diet and health in general, and to not lose weight doing it. If you actually put this advice into practice, unless you’ve had some serious hormonal disturbances in your life or other major medical problems with internal organs, you WILL lose weight and get healthier. It’s pretty frustrating when I apply this stuff in my own life, get results even more extreme than I wanted, and there are millions of obese and overweight people walking around North America. But if you are one of these people, follow my blog, and read the following post in particular: https://jeffmirro.com/how-i-live-my-life-fasting-diet-fitness-and-health
