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I am NOT a doctor, and this is NOT medical advice. This is a personal story, with a surprising benefit I got from fasting as a morbidly obese man. Most people don’t talk about this, so I thought I’d share.
Don’t want to read the whole article?
THE MAIN HIDDEN BENEFIT IS BEING LESS HUNGRY IN GENERAL. (You’ll feel full much much quicker, and with less food when you’re not fasting. )
Fasting has tons of other benefits as well. Read on if interested!
Here’s my (quick) story:
Starting last year, I got stressed out because I wanted to get serious about my diet. It was SO MUCH harder than I expected it to be, and I’ve felt like I’ve done a lot more challenging things than this……….but…..
The constant feeling of being hungry was driving me absolutely up a wall.
I felt like I had no energy. My stomach would hurt, i’d have headaches, id feel weak, and honestly I hate to say it…….but I felt depressed because of how food had a hold on me that it didn’t seem to have on other people.
So, I started searching around and trying different things to see what type of diet I could be successful with. I ended up trying a TON of different stuff, everything from stuff you’ve probably heard of before like IM (intermittent fasting) and even weird old diets where you’d only eat the color green foods. Lol.
That’s when I discovered fasting…….
I’ve stopped looking for more diet plans since then.
By far, when I discovered fasting…….I had the absolute BEST results.
Fasting is the best diet I’ve ever done.
You should try it!
Here’s some of the benefits you get from fasting
- Feeling INCREDIBLE (and less sluggish throughout the day)
- Feeling FULL ( Sometimes even STUFFED with WAY LESS FOOD when I’m not fasting. I seriously eat way less food now. Probably about a third of what I used to calorically and I will feel stuffed after a meal)
- Not feeling very hungry at all……….even when going for quite some time without food
- WAY LESS CRAVINGS
- Waking up easier in the morning and sleeping better
- WALLET (Also the cheapest diet plan ever. So that helped lol.)
READ THIS TO GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR FASTING:
The way you fast will change your results pretty significantly. You’ve got to consistently change the way you fast in order to make it work for you.
For instance, there are some weeks where I don’t fast at all. I just eat however I feel like, and I will feel full will less food thanks to the benefit of fasting earlier in the week. I’ll wait until I have a week that’s relatively stress free and I do my fasting then. This helps me quite a bit. If I fast on a stressful week, what usually happens is I end up getting frustrated and eating more than I would have in the first place. Dieting is truly a mental game, and you’ve got to prepare prepare prepare.
Which brings me to my next point. Have a plan for when you want to say forget it and stop fasting. Say you’re fasting for 24 hours like I do, you’ll get to a few points in the day where you’re going to feel VERY hungry. Knowing yourself will help most here. You need to find a way to distract yourself to get through this. Distracting, or comforting myself usually is what helps me the most. I’ll watch tv I really like, or I’ll do some really hard mental work. Doing this keeps my mind away from the hunger pains until they pass. Some people I’ve seen online just take naps! I’ve never been that bad off, but I am prepared to just in case! The number one thing you don’t want to do is ruin your hard days work and break the fast.
Be prepared to fail a few times.
Yes, I know people say it’s a bad idea to plan to fail…….because they say you have a better chance of losing now. This might be true, but for me I’ve found its better to have a plan if I do fail. If I do decide that I’m just going to eat and forget the diet, I’m feeling to sluggish or whatever it is……
Having this plan B always helps me. My personal plan B is to drink a LARGE glass of water, and then eating a piece of baked chicken and some green beans (very low calorie) and then waiting an hour. I eat it all very very very slow. (This helps with the craving I’m experiencing as well). Usually, after this I feel better and am able to continue the rest of the day with not the full, but close to the full benefits of the fast.
Hope you enjoyed this article!!!! Thanks so much for reading!!!!!
-Cameron