Alternate Day Fasting

[NICE MOBIUS]

Let's not get carried away with fisting, after all

It has to be alternate day, to allow my ass to recover!

[The Mad Monk]

I haven't been doing it for awhile, except for occasional days when I realize I haven't eaten anything that day and decide to to carry it into the next day. I'm still eating healthy, no binges except Thanksgiving, and I haven't regained any of the roughly sixty pounds I lost. Two weeks ago I went on a short uphill walk with my 15 year old niece and my younger brother, climbing from the ground level of Union Station in KC and on up the hill to the top of the Liberty Memorial in ninety degree heat; they were dying and I was mocking (I do regret that). I had to wait for them to catch up several times! What's with kids these days?

[notyoueither]

I don't think anthropologists have found crossfit in pre-civilized man.

I think that's how you survived before settling down to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle pumped up by carbs.

[Sava]

I mean, alternate fasting would work for weight loss in the sense that you are making it difficult for yourself to bring calories into your body.

but... if you have the self control to do that, why not just figure out an average daily caloric level and stick with it?

seems like a stupid strategy, but whatever works

[giblets]

Do you think some people might find skipping meals easier than satisfying themselves with small meals...?

[Sava]

I can't discuss this topic with you

[The Mad Monk]

giblets is too reasonable for Sava.

[NICE MOBIUS]

I mean, alternate fasting would work for weight loss in the sense that you are making it difficult for yourself to bring calories into your body.

but... if you have the self control to do that, why not just figure out an average daily caloric level and stick with it?

seems like a stupid strategy, but whatever works

Maybe you should seek to find out how and why it is thought to work first, before pouring scorn on it?

Clue: there is more to the concept than first meets the eye.

[Bereta_Eder]

one is fat because he has no control. he has no control because he is resigned.
When he stops being resigned he regains control and then he is no longer fat.
(i've never been fat but I had some extra kilos)
now that I think about it, that goes for everything

[Sava]

Maybe you should seek to find out how and why it is thought to work first, before pouring scorn on it?

Clue: there is more to the concept than first meets the eye.

It "works" because the average number of calories burned exceeds those taken in.

However, there are many other better ways to accomplish the same goal.

Most other aspects of "paleo" are crap... just like every other fad diet. Paleo diets can be good (good, meaning it meets one's particular needs)... but not by virtue of what they try to be.

Being healthy isn't a particularly difficult thing to do, in theory. Translating a particular strategy to a behavioral change is often the challenge.

Sorry for ****ting on something you like. But if you are at all an intelligent person, you'll realize what I'm actually saying and not get butthurt.

in essence, I'm saying "team paleo" is stupid and full of **** (to the extent that if they are correct, it is by accident).

[Sava]

giblets is too reasonable for Sava.

don't make me laugh boy

[giblets]

It "works" because the average number of calories burned exceeds those taken in.

Thank you, Hauldren Collider

[NICE MOBIUS]

It "works" because the average number of calories burned exceeds those taken in.

However, there are many other better ways to accomplish the same goal.

You're basically bored, aren't you?

Firstly yes, if that was what we were talking about.

But we're not, exactly.

So, instead of lazily shooting from the hip, get clued up about this thread...

Most other aspects of "paleo" are crap... just like every other fad diet. Paleo diets can be good (good, meaning it meets one's particular needs)... but not by virtue of what they try to be.

This isn't about Paleo, it's about various forms of alternate day fasting.

Being healthy isn't a particularly difficult thing to do, in theory. Translating a particular strategy to a behavioral change is often the challenge.

I agree, that is why the challenge is to gain the specific health benefits theorised from fasting for at least two days of the week. Losing weight should only be a side-effect - not the main reason for doing the diet.

Sorry for ****ting on something you like. But if you are at all an intelligent person, you'll realize what I'm actually saying and not get butthurt.

Yeah, you're not paying attention to the thread (to the extent that you've forgotten what it's about) and basically lazily spamming about stuff you can't be bothered to find out sufficiently about to actually have a cogent argument about.

So I'm not butthurt (that would be alternate day fisting!), merely amused that you're so spectacularly missing the point.

in essence, I'm saying "team paleo" is stupid and full of **** (to the extent that if they are correct, it is by accident).

I'm agreeing with you (to the extent that they are not correct - hence my link)

But this is not a thread exclusively about paleo.

[Sava]

Thank you, Hauldren Collider

Fortunately for me, that quoted statement of mine was the beginning and end of YOUR argument.

Mine has a lot more to it.

****face

[giblets]

Nice Mobius savagely humiliated Sava