I need to fast fast

[Kiorionis]

I’ve literally done the same thing. Who owns rocks? I used to put them in my pockets as a kid and no one complained haha

 

[Lakshmana]

The roundabout rock licker strikes.

 

[Kiorionis]

How goes the fast, @Awani?

You had like a 3 or 4 week schedule in the OP? This might be week 3 or 4?

 

[Awani]

I’m not fasting anymore. I’m just eating less than 2000 calories + kettlebell stuff.

I’ve lost a third of my weight. Weightloss will move slower now because I add muscle weight.

Actually less focused on actual weight, now I measure the circumference of my belly more. Because I plan to add muscles, the actual weight won’t be a good sign. Thus, shape is more important now than weight.

But I should lose another 5 kg/10 lbs regardless.

My initial weight at its highest point was 95 kg/210 lbs. Now I’m at 84 kg/185 lbs.

 

[Dendritic Xylem]

I think most calorie calculators are bullshit. I'm nearing age 40, am 6'0" tall, 160 lbs and have 12% bodyfat. My clothing size hasn't changed since age 15. All of the online calculators say I should be consuming at least 2k calories to maintain 160. But I've found that I only need 1200 if I get at least 60-100g protein. Never eat breakfast, and often just light snacking for lunch. Dinner is the only full size meal I consistently have. Everyone says it's better to eat early and cut back on food in the evening, but doing that kills my sleep quality.

Congrats on the progress, 25 lbs is huge. Imagine being forced to wear a 25 lb backpack constantly, even in bed and in the shower.

 

[Andro]

Dinner is the only full size meal I consistently have.

Same here.

 

[Awani]

AI calculates my calories. Does an excellent job. Results speak for themselves.

I nibbled throughout the day. Thus I consumed more calories across time ie weight gain.

 

[Dendritic Xylem]

AI calculates my calories

Which one do you use? Really want to download the best ones for offline just in case they get outlawed or censored by the authorities. ArgentSeeker mentioned gpt4all

 

[Awani]

Grok is the one I use the most. Least woke in my experience.

 

[Lakshmana]

Which one do you use? Really want to download the best ones for offline just in case they get outlawed or censored by the authorities. ArgentSeeker mentioned gpt4all

Gemma 4 and Qwen are probably the best local models right now there are uncensored versions where "refusal" weights are surgically removed so they will do basically anything. You still need some decent hardware to run it though.

 

[Kiorionis]

+ kettlebell stuff.

Hells yeah. You ever get into any of these with the kettlebell?




Might be worth a spin-off thread, since it’s off topic of fasting.

 

[Pilgrim]

Dinner is the only full size meal I consistently have.

As with @Andro, same for me.

Wife and I started a fasting regime post Christmas using the 12-12 system to start (12 hours eating, 12 hours not eating) then swiftly moved to 18-6 (18 hours not eating, 6 hours eating) and our bodies very quickly adopted that quite comfortably and this just morphed into eating just one meal per day at around 4pm.

Wife lost over 2 stone already and I've lost plenty but I don't weigh myself or worry about lbs specifically. I just feel better, more energetic, healthier. I do tend to have a couple of pieces of toast with butter when I wake up (maybe 10am-11am) but otherwise nothing until the meal of the day which is meat/fish vegetables and potatoes of some kind. The old "3 square meals a day" promoted regime is complete BS.

I learned long ago to listen to my body. Stop eating until your body tells you it wants something and then give it something nutritious. Then wait again and listen and don't eat until and unless your body wants it. Provided you eat good things this will teach you what your body wants and needs. If you eat crap, like fizzy drinks, fatty or sugary snacks then those things will disrupt the entire mechanism of your body and trigger false hunger pangs when in fact your body doesn't want or need anything which leads to weight gain and bad health.

Stop, wait, listen, feed well. Rinse repeat. Enjoy health

 

[Awani]

It doesn't matter if you eat healthy, if you eat too much. I feel in that trap.

As for kettlebells, some of those I do... it seems like a good tool.

 

[Kiorionis]

Right on.

The Goblet Carry is one of my favorites. Try carrying a 50lb kettlebell around for 5 minutes. It’s a fuckin workout.

It also gives you the opportunity to find out which core muscles are activating or not.