So this was interesting to me, and I'm starting a trial. I'm 67 yo male, 5' 8". In 2017 I had a brush with cancer (fine now, heh), and hit 263lbs and just shy of a 40 BMI. Dirty keto, intermittent and extended fasting got me down to 175 in May of 2018 (by which time we had temporarily moved to Mexico. 2021 was our last year there, and a combination of stress and FOMO (it's incredibly cheap to eat out or in in Mexico, as long as your not in a tourist city), combined with a year of returning to, and refurbishing our California house (it was rented out while we were gone for 4 years) saw me peaking at 136 on January 2nd of 2023. No big deal, right? I just started rolling 2.5-3.5 day fasts (water and Diet Coke btw). interspersed with 1 to 2 days where I consciously strove to get ~2500-3000 kcal a day. That's eas--well, do-able. Not eating at all does get in your head after a while. So I ran across your sub stack through the r/saturated fat group and it was intriguing. Keto as she should be, if you will. I'm pretty much following your lead (150 gems 80/20 hamburger, 60 grams spinach wilted with it, and about 60g of a 'clean' marinara), regarding the one (very small, but better than nothing) meal. As I don't enjoy coffee (outside of a tiramisu), I'm making an iced matcha latte with 2 tsp matcha powder and one and a half to two cups of heavy cream, and sip on that through the day. Once it's gone, either water or maybe a slug or two of cream. The first 2 days showed waterfasting-like results (1.75-2 lbs lost each day--yes likely mostly water, but the same as I would be seeing at the start of an extended fast). Today is a family meal out, so I'll make the latte and skip the ground beef, watching what I eat at the restaurant. Then tomorrow back at it.
Wow, this is insane.
I’ve started today.
61y F trying to lose 10 pounds of fat from my middle.
I’m a typical apple shape…skinny legs and arms and carry my extra in my middle. Very frustrating.
Let’s see how this works. One year of carnivore left me with these last 10 pounds that won’t budge after a 40 pound loss.
So this was interesting to me, and I'm starting a trial. I'm 67 yo male, 5' 8". In 2017 I had a brush with cancer (fine now, heh), and hit 263lbs and just shy of a 40 BMI. Dirty keto, intermittent and extended fasting got me down to 175 in May of 2018 (by which time we had temporarily moved to Mexico. 2021 was our last year there, and a combination of stress and FOMO (it's incredibly cheap to eat out or in in Mexico, as long as your not in a tourist city), combined with a year of returning to, and refurbishing our California house (it was rented out while we were gone for 4 years) saw me peaking at 136 on January 2nd of 2023. No big deal, right? I just started rolling 2.5-3.5 day fasts (water and Diet Coke btw). interspersed with 1 to 2 days where I consciously strove to get ~2500-3000 kcal a day. That's eas--well, do-able. Not eating at all does get in your head after a while. So I ran across your sub stack through the r/saturated fat group and it was intriguing. Keto as she should be, if you will. I'm pretty much following your lead (150 gems 80/20 hamburger, 60 grams spinach wilted with it, and about 60g of a 'clean' marinara), regarding the one (very small, but better than nothing) meal. As I don't enjoy coffee (outside of a tiramisu), I'm making an iced matcha latte with 2 tsp matcha powder and one and a half to two cups of heavy cream, and sip on that through the day. Once it's gone, either water or maybe a slug or two of cream. The first 2 days showed waterfasting-like results (1.75-2 lbs lost each day--yes likely mostly water, but the same as I would be seeing at the start of an extended fast). Today is a family meal out, so I'll make the latte and skip the ground beef, watching what I eat at the restaurant. Then tomorrow back at it.