Since late last year, I've been fasting one day a week. I was pushing 270 (268-272). I am tall, over 6'2, but I'm still pretty heavy even for my size. About to be 50, so I decided to do something about it.
Anyways, one day a week (usually Tuesday but sometimes Thursday) I will fast from the time I get up until I wake up the next day, so roughly ~30 hours or so. It was working pretty good I think. I didn't really do much the first couple of weeks, but I started weighing myself weekly in January. So I got down to 261, 8-10 lbs down. I was pretty happy about that. So last week, I guess I overdid the superbowl and this week I weighed in at about 265. Not too happy about that. Literally gained 4 lbs in a week just from a little extra chips/cheese/alcohol during the Big Game.
I don't really exercise but at times I have a physically demanding job. I consider myself in pretty decent shape, I often climb very tall stairs at work in an industrial facility, 80-120 feet in height pretty easily. I have days, like today where I will sit in this office all day and do nothing physically, and then this weekend I will be drilling wells and doing actual physical work.
I don't really do any kind of diet other than my one day fast, but some people I know will do the fast after a certain time and had good results. I do eat way to much fast food, but my wife usually cooks dinner and we eat a good amount of green vegetables at each meal.
Just curious about the rest of you and what you've done to drop the pounds. I don't really care to or want any help in the form of ozempic or the rest, I feel like bad stuff may come out of this scheme in the future.
This is a bit oversimplified, but still solid.
When interested in losing weight, you mostly want to modify your diet. If you ever take a look at how calories work--both taking them in and burning them off--it's largely a fool's errand to try to lose weight by exercising.
Not eating after 4 pm like Badger suggested is probably a great way to accomplish that, though I'm not sure how sustainable that is long term for many people. I had success when I gained weight for the first time in my life 8ish years ago by not eating after 6 pm. I was able to get my supper in by 6, though, so your schedule may preclude that. It took a long time, I felt like, for it to make any difference at all, to the point where I thought it was doing nothing, and then in the snap of a finger, I lost 6 lbs seemingly overnight. I did it for a couple months and dropped 15 lbs, which was my target at the time.
Cutting out the fast food you mentioned would be huge. Cutting out sweets, snacks and desserts would be huge.
Exercising and working out is great to improve your health....cardio, strength, making your doctor gripe at you about your lab results less, etc. But it's not going to help you lose weight much. Not unless you combine it with a modified diet, in which case, it's mostly the modified diet that's working, not the exercising.
