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No surprise here, starvation also enhances your senses, but you wouldn't want to do it all the time...

by daralthus 5y ago

naasking 5y ago
Why not, intermittent fasting works great! You definitely notice the increased alertness during your fasting period.
- throw1234651234 5y ago
  I don't notice anything. I am amazed at how little I notice, other than how much time I save by not cooking, eating, cleaning, and shopping for food. Maybe, just maybe, my energy level evens out, but is by no means enhanced. I barely lose any fat, half a pound over 3 days if lucky. The only way to make it noticeable is to walk for 8 hours straight on day 3, just because at that point the body HAS to burn fat. Don't feel magically better. Don't feel hungry after the first 12 hours. Just feels the same. Hopefully, all the magical stories about autophagy, HGH, eth aren't COMPLETELY exaggerated. I hate reading about fasting, meditation, cold showers, contrast baths, ketosis, etc because it's always made out to be this magical thing, and as far as I can tell, it's just not, and the "science" turns out to be made up eventually.
  - belltaco 5y ago
    >I hate reading about fasting, meditation, cold showers, contrast baths, ketosis, etc because it's always made out to be this magical thing, and as far as I can tell, it's just not, and the "science" turns out to be made up eventually. The discrepancy can be explained very well by one theory.. the set point lipostat theory. The basic principle is that everyone's body has a 'set weight' point at a given time that the brain targets(just like a thermostat targets a certain temperature). And body functions are highly regulated to meet this target, just like the thermostat turns on the heat furnace or AC to keep temperature constant. So if you eat more, the body burns more calories and makes you less hungry to meet the goal, and if you eat less the body burns less calories and makes you hungry to put you back. Not just those two but a lot more, like converting calories to fat or not. In your case your body seems to have decided that your weight is lower than your set point, so that's why you're not losing weight even with fasting. You need to sustain that lower weight for a while before your set point is automatically lowered.
  - naasking 5y ago
    > Maybe, just maybe, my energy level evens out, but is by no means enhanced I said alertness, as in mental alertness, not energy levels. I doubt I would be able to perform physically as well while fasted. Cortisol levels slowly increase the longer you faster to mobilize stored energy and maintain blood glucose levels. Cortisol is also implicated in alertness. > I barely lose any fat, half a pound over 3 days if lucky. Not sure if you mean half a pound after fasting for 3 days, or half a pound after fasting intermittently for 3 days. Either way, you don't want to lose weight any faster than 2 lbs per week, tops. Adverse health effects are possible if you go any faster, so it sounds like you're on a good trajectory.
  - godDLL 5y ago
    I am currently rebuilding my body after few years of eating paints and building materials and whatnot that's in the walls of old construction before renovation. What prompted me was getting food poisoning this winter, four times in the space of three months. I did not recover. Like at all. Using keto and intermittent fasting techniques I've successfully ping-ponged my weight between 72 and 62kg (that's the _normal_ BMI range for my height) precisely 15 times starting late May. First three times did not feel great. Felt like getting poisoned again, but mildly, no vomiting all night for three days straight and all that jazz. I am currently on the way to 53kg, so that I get rid of all that muscle mass acquired in menial jobs and rebuild to something flexible. In that time my eyesight improved from -2.25 to -1.75 I exist, am real, and did really do all that. Ask me anything.
    - naasking 5y ago
      A lot of compounds get stored in fat cells, so losing fat can slowly release them back into your bloodstream. Not fun, hope it works out for you.
      - godDLL 5y ago
        Yeah, but eating my own poisons was over with in the space of three-four months. Now it's just enjoyable. On OMAD or fasting days you can feel the added energy in motivation, the added processing in the enjoyment you get from living your life. On the days where you don't follow a strict diet you feel the food, eh, very much. The joy of it, and the weight of it. It is definitely worth it to, come winter, evaluate how happy or not you are with your body, and just do what is required. I regret not having the clarity on that subject before my hand was forced. But you learn, that's why there's reflexion on past experience. You wouldn't need memory if it weren't for that.

No surprise here, starvation also enhances your senses, but you wouldn't want to do it all the time...

naasking 5y ago

Why not, intermittent fasting works great! You definitely notice the increased alertness during your fasting period.

throw1234651234 5y ago
I don't notice anything. I am amazed at how little I notice, other than how much time I save by not cooking, eating, cleaning, and shopping for food. Maybe, just maybe, my energy level evens out, but is by no means enhanced. I barely lose any fat, half a pound over 3 days if lucky. The only way to make it noticeable is to walk for 8 hours straight on day 3, just because at that point the body HAS to burn fat. Don't feel magically better. Don't feel hungry after the first 12 hours. Just feels the same. Hopefully, all the magical stories about autophagy, HGH, eth aren't COMPLETELY exaggerated. I hate reading about fasting, meditation, cold showers, contrast baths, ketosis, etc because it's always made out to be this magical thing, and as far as I can tell, it's just not, and the "science" turns out to be made up eventually.
- belltaco 5y ago
  >I hate reading about fasting, meditation, cold showers, contrast baths, ketosis, etc because it's always made out to be this magical thing, and as far as I can tell, it's just not, and the "science" turns out to be made up eventually. The discrepancy can be explained very well by one theory.. the set point lipostat theory. The basic principle is that everyone's body has a 'set weight' point at a given time that the brain targets(just like a thermostat targets a certain temperature). And body functions are highly regulated to meet this target, just like the thermostat turns on the heat furnace or AC to keep temperature constant. So if you eat more, the body burns more calories and makes you less hungry to meet the goal, and if you eat less the body burns less calories and makes you hungry to put you back. Not just those two but a lot more, like converting calories to fat or not. In your case your body seems to have decided that your weight is lower than your set point, so that's why you're not losing weight even with fasting. You need to sustain that lower weight for a while before your set point is automatically lowered.
- naasking 5y ago
  > Maybe, just maybe, my energy level evens out, but is by no means enhanced I said alertness, as in mental alertness, not energy levels. I doubt I would be able to perform physically as well while fasted. Cortisol levels slowly increase the longer you faster to mobilize stored energy and maintain blood glucose levels. Cortisol is also implicated in alertness. > I barely lose any fat, half a pound over 3 days if lucky. Not sure if you mean half a pound after fasting for 3 days, or half a pound after fasting intermittently for 3 days. Either way, you don't want to lose weight any faster than 2 lbs per week, tops. Adverse health effects are possible if you go any faster, so it sounds like you're on a good trajectory.
- godDLL 5y ago
  I am currently rebuilding my body after few years of eating paints and building materials and whatnot that's in the walls of old construction before renovation. What prompted me was getting food poisoning this winter, four times in the space of three months. I did not recover. Like at all. Using keto and intermittent fasting techniques I've successfully ping-ponged my weight between 72 and 62kg (that's the _normal_ BMI range for my height) precisely 15 times starting late May. First three times did not feel great. Felt like getting poisoned again, but mildly, no vomiting all night for three days straight and all that jazz. I am currently on the way to 53kg, so that I get rid of all that muscle mass acquired in menial jobs and rebuild to something flexible. In that time my eyesight improved from -2.25 to -1.75 I exist, am real, and did really do all that. Ask me anything.
  - naasking 5y ago
    A lot of compounds get stored in fat cells, so losing fat can slowly release them back into your bloodstream. Not fun, hope it works out for you.
    - godDLL 5y ago
      Yeah, but eating my own poisons was over with in the space of three-four months. Now it's just enjoyable. On OMAD or fasting days you can feel the added energy in motivation, the added processing in the enjoyment you get from living your life. On the days where you don't follow a strict diet you feel the food, eh, very much. The joy of it, and the weight of it. It is definitely worth it to, come winter, evaluate how happy or not you are with your body, and just do what is required. I regret not having the clarity on that subject before my hand was forced. But you learn, that's why there's reflexion on past experience. You wouldn't need memory if it weren't for that.