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This worked beautifully for me when I was in my 20s. Now that I’m in the second half of my 40s it doesn’t work well at all. My body requires a starvation diet b
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
This worked beautifully for me when I was in my 20s. Now that I’m in the second half of my 40s it doesn’t work well at all. My body requires a starvation diet before I see even a little weight loss, and I can’t keep it up while remaining productive in my job.
This is one of the useful lessons of age: you essentially get to experience living in more than one body within your lifetime. Younger-me would have posted the same confident advice as you did, and it would have seemed just as intuitively obvious - how could it be wrong when I experienced it myself! But in practice for someone with a different metabolism (at any age) it’s deeply unhelpful, even demoralizing.
- melling 4y agoI’m more than a decade older than you. that’s what my girlfriend said: “Can’t lose weight after a certain age” She looked at me one day when I was down around 25 pounds and declared “It does work” Next thing I know, she lost 15 pounds.
- WastingMyTime89 4y agoI think people feel hunger very differently. When I want to lose wait I just stop eating lunch until I start to feel it makes me sluggish. I can tell I should probably eat but that’s an easy to ignore signal. My ex girlfriend felt hunger as an all consuming normal activity ending feeling.
- Analogbullfrog 4y agoWomen react differently to things like intermittent fasting given the vastly different hormonal profile to men. I’m much like your ex (I can’t think properly until I feel full, which means a significant breakfast) and anecdotally I have noticed that men seem more likely to go for longer fasting periods. Women’s bodies really don’t like to think they’re starving.