Difficult problems are best solved when they are easy.
If you have weight to lose, deal with it now, don’t wait until it’s out of control.
Making adjustments to your lifestyle so you can lose 20 pounds is much easier than trying to drastically alter your life to lose 100 pounds.
Drastically altering your life to lose 1oo pounds is still easier than the changes you will have to make to lose 150 pounds.
The bottom line, and one of my favorite sayings..when you have to deal with something uncomfortable, embarrassing or that is otherwise going to be painful, there is no time like the present.
Dealing with and and Dealing with it properly will make you feel great.
Delaying never makes it easier.
BP
This entry was posted by Brad Pilon on Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 at 10:58 am and is filed under
Weight loss
Hey Brad,
Been following your blog for some time and been experimenting with IF. One question, I find it altogether easier fasting until the next day (e.g. stop eating Sunday night and don’t eat until Tuesday morning). I can do this twice and even three times a week. So looking at around 32-36 hours fasts each time up to 100 hours a week. Do you see a downside to this? I mean, health-wise, or it is counter-productive in terms of fat loss or I might be eating away my muscle as well?
I found it generally easy enough to do – so not real emotional or physical struggle. Sometimes I don’t sleep as well on the fasted sleep evening. Sometimes bored. But I am not pushing myself to do this is any way.
Basically, if I can handle it, do you see any reason against doing this?
Thanks!
As long as there is no emotional struggle, and no issues with food, and you aren’t pushing yourself, then it seems to fit.
It’s outside of my recommendations, but not overly drastic.
B
Thanks Brad – I think the main benefit of your recommendations is that a one or two 24 hour fast a week is likely to be much easier to maintain over months or even years. 32 hour fasts, 3 X a week, can get old quickly… although I have been doing this for close to a month now. I will settle into a “maintenance” mode once I have achieved my target weight.
Your ESE ideas are inspiring. I definitely have a different appreciation of food now and the need to eat. As a side note, I went multi-day hiking lately and packed very lightly; now that I understand that my body can EASILY go without food even while exercising, there seems like no real need to have a monstrous backpack with all sorts of food.
Thanks again!
Hi Brad, You e-book EatStopEat, was a really good read, very well written. But I have one question. Say if I’m doing a 24 hour fast, the body will use up glucose first, then it will probably turn to glycogen, and finally fat. I realise that some fat will probably be burned in addition to glucose and glycogen but, you would be very unlikely to deplete you gyclogen stores in a 24 hour period enough to burn significant fat? Unless you do weights of course.
Do you recommend training on the days you fast, or on the non-fasting days? I don’t know why I’m asking, because I think I know the answer, but I want you to throw the science at me – coz I want to understand it
Brad, I like this post. My whole life I’ve looked at other people who were overweight and used the phrase, “You don’t gain ‘X’ number of lbs overnight, what the heck is that person thinking, when are they going to draw a line”. Well I finally looked in the mirror and realized I was that person with 25 extra lbs! So I drew my own line in the sand. And started to look around for something that I could do for the rest of my life not just for 6,8 or 12 weeks. Because everything I’ve read shows people just gain the weight back. It’s still very early in my journey but following ESE i’m down 6 lbs so far and for me the coolest part is I don’t feel like I am “dieting”. I’m just doing something that feels very natural and getting more in tune with the reasons why my body “feels” hungry. Good stuff!
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