Comments on: One Big Change That Could Jump Start Your Weight Loss

By: Steve Kamb

Steve Kamb — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:34:00 +0000

I think you missed the point here…

Before passing judgment or declaring this is anorexia (which is most certainly isn’t) I’d encourage you to explore the research and data behind the topic and then make an educated decision.

Thanks for reading! Cheers,

-Steve

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:29:00 +0000

I don’t understand what the difference between this and anorexia is..? I mean, the fact is human beings, like any animal, can survive without food in emergency situations due to poverty or scarcity…But it’s not how we are designed to perform optimally. I mean, a car can move on a few cups of gas, but if you’re always driving it till you get down to E it’s not good for the engine. I just really don’t buy this attempt to rationalize starving your body.

By: Hiimrif

Hiimrif — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:45:00 +0000

I have also been doing the leangains diet, well really a combonation of the leangains and the fast-5.com same concept different window. When I eat at night I was unconciously eating paleo(single guy with a grill, yeah meat and veggies) and have seen some pretty impressive losses so far. I’m a pretty heavy guy but in 3 weeks I’m down 14 pounds, added a little lean weight as well. This style of eating works for me and my schedule as I can eat something after work then after school. I also do fasted workouts in the morning, at first I kind of had that I wanna quit feeling but now I feel great. One thing Martin suggest(leangains) is if you are working out in the morning to take some BCAA’s before then trickle them till you break your fast. I recently started that and now I feel even better and have made some good lifting gains, could just be begginers awesomeness.

Bob

P.s. Another good site is gettingstronger.org and freetheanimal.com

By: Amazongirl

Amazongirl — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:15:00 +0000

I’ll admit I haven’t read ALL of the comments, but I think you ought to delve into another type of IF – Lean Gains (www.leangains.com) in which you shorten your eating window every day (or most days) rather than going 24 hours 2x a week. For example, every day except Sunday, I don’t eat until about noon and then I stop eating at 8. So I am essentially fasting for 16 hours a day. It’s WAY easier for me than Eat Stop Eat and gives me a lot of the same benefits. Check it out!

By: The Queen Athlete

The Queen Athlete — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:01:00 +0000

i smiled when i read this post because i know that in the orthodox religion there is also this type of fasting: 2 days a week, on Wednesday and Friday, we eat like vegetarians, no milk, no eggs, no meat. some of us do the things you describe here, not eating until sunset and then having dinner. another type of feast is called ”black feast”, when we eat nothing for a whole day, not even water. this is especially the day before Easter and Christmas.
it is nice to see that recent studies now back up what our ancestors have been passing on to us for ages.

as for proof at was you said, my mother was so busy at work this last couple of months, that she didn”t have always time to eat, so in some days she ate only dinner when she got home. she lost 15 pounds

By: Paleo Nerd | LAX CrossFit

Paleo Nerd | LAX CrossFit — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:26:24 +0000

[...] This type of eating is generally referred to as Intermittent Fasting. [...]

By: Barrett

Barrett — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:03:00 +0000

I’ve only just discovered NF thanks to some link love on Primer Magazine. Great site, Steve. It’s been really inspirational to me in the last couple days.

I’ve done IF a little, and I found the trick that worked for me was skipping dinner first, then not eating breakfast or lunch until dinner the next day. That way you sleep through the hungriest part of the fast. By the time dinner rolls around you feel like you can eat or not and it wouldn’t much matter.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:40:00 +0000

When it comes to consuming fewer calories, my biggest point of failure is giving myself a taste of food and then only letting myself have a small amount. It just doesn’t work. Once I’ve tried it, I need to have a decent quantity or I will just experience hunger hell for the next hour. In most cases, I can’t even get that far and I give in and have a proper meal’s worth. I can’t do that 6 times a day.

This is where IF comes in handy.

If I haven’t eaten for 10 hours, I can’t remember just how nice food is. I don’t have a craving for something I’ve just had, because I haven’t had anything, and I can continue longer. I may feel a little hungry in general, but then I just drink liquids, and I feel satisfied.

Then, when it comes to my main meal, I can properly fill myself up with food.

I can’t manage eating smaller meals – it just doesn’t work for me, at all.