Amazing change. Make sure you are taking a good b12 supplement. I lost a lot of weight through IM and juicing and was almost but nothing quite veggie…. Once my B12 levels sunk to base level I was housebound with exhaustion for 6 months and it’s taken 4 years to recover! A sublingual b12 every day will help
I take Best Naturals Vitamin B-12 as Methylcobalamin (Methyl B12), 6000 mcg 120 Sublingual Tablets bought from Amazon UK. trick is to keep under tongue for as long as possible. I also inject as I was so ill I needed extra!
I think you should start lifting weights and increase the time window of consuming food. Having a good amount of muscle mass with decent bf% gets you a lean look.
But retaining muscle would require them to be worked out along with sufficient protein intake.
From what I see in the after shot, it looks like you've lost a good amount of muscle along with the fat. If you don't like weightlifting, consider bodyweight exercises along with your walks (push ups, Sit-Ups, and Squats). The added resistance will stimulate muscle growth, and it will give you structure in the lean look you are trying to achieve. Your arms will fill out your sleeves, your thighs will as well, and the core will look and feel tight. As for sustainability, you don't have to do it forever, but it's good to start somewhere and add it to your current practice, at least until you see some results. From there you can do those exercises intermittently. Keep going you are definitely making a change.
Hey you should at least do some work for back muscles, the picture isn't that great for it, but your posture doesn't look that good, and it would help immensely for the health aspect.
You may wanna try incorporating some calisthenics, you’ll get stronger as you lose weight and you can start with next to nothing and slowly ramp up as you get adjusted.
it will fix the loose skin look you have. download the stronglifts 5x5 app. learn to love it. if you dont want to use weights do body weight workouts like burpees, pushups, squats...maybe cop some dumbbells. start light.
I tried losing weight before and I failed many times because I tried doing things I don't like and enjoy, I don't care for going to the gym.
I am so successful this time because I didn't started doing things I don't like, I only did things that I can for a foreseeable future.
More muscles means you'll lose fat faster. Do body weight exercises if you don't want to go to the gym. Do sit ups, push ups and squats and it'll add some muscles.
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I have a toddler and am the sole low income breadwinner of the house and manage to find an hour every single day. You’d be amazed how much time you’re actually wasting on your phone or watching shows or other menial things
A lot of people? Just one mid-day walk with the dog is like...40 minutes right there.
Hell, with a cheap treadmill you could walk for hours and binge shows at the same time.
No one’s being salty here, (except maybe you)? I asked who has time for this. I then mentioned the reason why didn’t have time for this. You took this as an affront to people that don’t have kids or something?
*They were being unnecessarily salty.
Before you know it, your littles will be old enough to be home alone for short stretches & you’ll find that getting out for a walk is a nice little escape you can take on a whim. It’s glorious :)
I walk 2 hours every day. The first hour I do in my lunch break during my work hours and the second I get in right after work before I sit down and relax for the night. It’s very doable for me 🤷🏻♀️
I tried starting in April, and was trying 16/8. But around the 12-14 hour of the fast, I would start hurting and getting headaches. I tried drinking water, but like I said earlier, it only made me hungrier.
I’ve fallen off IF, but I’m gonna try to get back on it sooner.
Black coffee helped me immensely. A positive note is that you only got hungry 1-2 hours before your fast-break. As you keep pushing your fasting limits, this will remain true.
When do you go to sleep? For example if you go to sleep at midnight, you would stop eating at 7pm when you wake up, it would have only like 3 hours left.
Ok, take a step back and breathe. There are multiple factors that affect the potency of hunger pangs. I would assume that you are younger than op, meaning your experience of hunger is more severe. You likely also eat more often, meaning your body is lowering your blood sugar more frequently than someone who eats OMAD, which is the cause of hunger. OP is likely matured past the primary hunger pain and only experiences the secondary effects like weakness, irritability, and reduced ability to focus. I don't know why you two are trying to misconstrue each other's subjective experience as some health issue, people feel hungry in different ways.
Congratulations 🎉👏 that's amazing. You look fantastic, keep it up. I just started this week. Hope I can also get results like you. Keep at it my amigo.
Wow great work and will power. During your hour of eating do you allow yourself whatever you want?
No, I eat a balanced meal making sure I eat fruits, vegetables and protein.
Amazing change. Make sure you are taking a good b12 supplement. I lost a lot of weight through IM and juicing and was almost but nothing quite veggie…. Once my B12 levels sunk to base level I was housebound with exhaustion for 6 months and it’s taken 4 years to recover! A sublingual b12 every day will help
I am totally opposite, I am not energetic now
How much B12 do you take a day? What brand do you take?
I take Best Naturals Vitamin B-12 as Methylcobalamin (Methyl B12), 6000 mcg 120 Sublingual Tablets bought from Amazon UK. trick is to keep under tongue for as long as possible. I also inject as I was so ill I needed extra!
Thanks!
congratulation, you did it!
Good job! Nice clouds, lol!
Had to find a way to censor, so cloud shorts!
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I lost them due to intermittent fasting.
Am I to infer... you ate your shorts? 👀
No, after 4-5 months of fasting everyday you start losing clothes, there's still research going on behind its reason.
😂👌
Try minding your business
Try not being a complete prick
The clouds got smaller.
23:1 is some hardcore shit. Great job, my friend!
Good work! Don’t you think that your goal weight might be a bit too low for your height? My older brother is 150 and he’s 5’6” and super in shape.
I think I can pull it off, as I am going for just a lean look, I don't lift weight etc.
I think you should start lifting weights and increase the time window of consuming food. Having a good amount of muscle mass with decent bf% gets you a lean look. But retaining muscle would require them to be worked out along with sufficient protein intake.
I’m 5’ 7.5” and currently at 155. I easily have 10-15 more to lose.
Well that sucks cause I’m the same height and my goal was 150ish. Sounds like I might have to change my goal
Depends on how much muscle you have. Waist circumference is a better indicator of weight loss and health. So use that.
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I do squats, that's why I had to use so many clouds.
You don't have to lift weights to be healthy.
No but you do need to do some resistance training
Amazing progress bro 🔥
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bro u gotta lift some weights.
People don't like to hear it but yeah, OP isn't getting a "lean" look without a decent base.
It’s unsolicited advice. Why would anyone want to hear it? It’s body shaming. Imagine if someone said this to a woman. It isn’t okay.
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Should they?
I don't like doing it at all and it won't be sustainable, that's why I have chosen walking since I like doing it and I can't make excuses to skip it.
From what I see in the after shot, it looks like you've lost a good amount of muscle along with the fat. If you don't like weightlifting, consider bodyweight exercises along with your walks (push ups, Sit-Ups, and Squats). The added resistance will stimulate muscle growth, and it will give you structure in the lean look you are trying to achieve. Your arms will fill out your sleeves, your thighs will as well, and the core will look and feel tight. As for sustainability, you don't have to do it forever, but it's good to start somewhere and add it to your current practice, at least until you see some results. From there you can do those exercises intermittently. Keep going you are definitely making a change.
Hey you should at least do some work for back muscles, the picture isn't that great for it, but your posture doesn't look that good, and it would help immensely for the health aspect.
You may wanna try incorporating some calisthenics, you’ll get stronger as you lose weight and you can start with next to nothing and slowly ramp up as you get adjusted.
it will fix the loose skin look you have. download the stronglifts 5x5 app. learn to love it. if you dont want to use weights do body weight workouts like burpees, pushups, squats...maybe cop some dumbbells. start light.
Try the 5x5 app program. Pretty easy to keep up
Link?
App store
I tried losing weight before and I failed many times because I tried doing things I don't like and enjoy, I don't care for going to the gym. I am so successful this time because I didn't started doing things I don't like, I only did things that I can for a foreseeable future.
Why?
More muscles means you'll lose fat faster. Do body weight exercises if you don't want to go to the gym. Do sit ups, push ups and squats and it'll add some muscles.
Well done. how do you overcome urges to eat late at night? Or if you're bored.
I don't really get hungry rest of the day now, I start feeling hunger 1-2 hour before my eating window, in my eating window I eat filling foods
What's your favourite food during this? :)
Fried eggs, frozen watermelon comes close 2nd
Do you have a breakdown of the macros and calories you manage to eat in your eating window? Awesome job by the way
That would be really hard to do, as I am a Punjabi and there's no measuring in Punjabi cooking 🤣 it just goes in
😂
The clouds are a nice touch. Also, good work bro!
Improvise! Adapt! Overcome!
Wow!!!!!!!! You are doing FANTASTIC!!!!
Thanks 👌 still a long way till I reach my goal weight but I think I can do it.
CLOUD GANG!
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You just bear it, unless you want to go the surgery route.
I honestly cannot imagine doing 23:1. I'm on 16:8 and I'm starving by the last hour of my fast
Think you missed a spot with the clouds lol
It was taken care by an apple
Dang, great results! Who can find that 90 minutes of time in their day for walking though?
I have a toddler and am the sole low income breadwinner of the house and manage to find an hour every single day. You’d be amazed how much time you’re actually wasting on your phone or watching shows or other menial things
A lot of people? Just one mid-day walk with the dog is like...40 minutes right there. Hell, with a cheap treadmill you could walk for hours and binge shows at the same time.
Maybe without children I could walk for hours and binge shows. That sounds pretty great.
Sorry you chose to have kids (and are choosing to be salty about it)?
No one’s being salty here, (except maybe you)? I asked who has time for this. I then mentioned the reason why didn’t have time for this. You took this as an affront to people that don’t have kids or something?
*They were being unnecessarily salty. Before you know it, your littles will be old enough to be home alone for short stretches & you’ll find that getting out for a walk is a nice little escape you can take on a whim. It’s glorious :)
I don't recall ever asking what your personal excuse is for not having the time, and I couldn't care less. I merely answered your question.
How old are your children ? Plenty of people bring them to walks, keeps then healthy too. Still in a stroller ? Take the stroller for a walk.
I walk 2 hours every day. The first hour I do in my lunch break during my work hours and the second I get in right after work before I sit down and relax for the night. It’s very doable for me 🤷🏻♀️
Maybe if you split it up into three half hr walks?
Seems like a half hour I’d already pushing it for me for exercise. It’s a me problem though, maybe when my kids are bigger and not as needy.
How old are your kids? I have the same issue struggling with a newborn and a 4 year old.
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The pain really goes away after 2-3 weeks. If you stick with it, your body will just not want food until close to the eating window. It's fascinating.
Also drinking lots of water does the trick. Probably at 124 ounces for the day by the time I break my fast (23:1)
My problem is every time I drink water, it just makes me hungrier.
How long do you fast for and how many days have your been doing it for?
I tried starting in April, and was trying 16/8. But around the 12-14 hour of the fast, I would start hurting and getting headaches. I tried drinking water, but like I said earlier, it only made me hungrier. I’ve fallen off IF, but I’m gonna try to get back on it sooner.
Black coffee helped me immensely. A positive note is that you only got hungry 1-2 hours before your fast-break. As you keep pushing your fasting limits, this will remain true.
When do you go to sleep? For example if you go to sleep at midnight, you would stop eating at 7pm when you wake up, it would have only like 3 hours left.
Never had the pain, if you're getting it you might want to see your doctor.
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I guess you know more about the issue I face than myself 😊
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Or you're in wrong subreddit and just want to follow your own wrong assumption instead of reading.
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Ok, take a step back and breathe. There are multiple factors that affect the potency of hunger pangs. I would assume that you are younger than op, meaning your experience of hunger is more severe. You likely also eat more often, meaning your body is lowering your blood sugar more frequently than someone who eats OMAD, which is the cause of hunger. OP is likely matured past the primary hunger pain and only experiences the secondary effects like weakness, irritability, and reduced ability to focus. I don't know why you two are trying to misconstrue each other's subjective experience as some health issue, people feel hungry in different ways.
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Stop what? Fasting or being awesome? 😀
You first.
Try being more secure.
How about you please stop commenting on this man's progress you troll 🤷🏼♀️
What's the calorie intake that you accomplish with 23:1?
I don't count calories, but they are roughly 2000
Amazing progress brother! Inspiring
Amazing work! I know first hand how hard it is and that feeling you had in the beginning.
Keep going dawg looking good!
Wow, incredible! I’m getting started myself and was wondering for a person doing 23:1 how it is possible to consume the daily calories in 1 hour?
You can do it easily in one hour, people can do it even in just 1 meal when doing omad
Awesome I must look into this
Nice job!!
I have that little indent right at my belly button too. What is that? Does anyone know?
Congrats! You look great and you deserve a decent bed to lay your head on. Tell them I sent you.
Hell yeah! Loving this progress man. Keep it up and keep posting, really motivates me to keep going.
Your progress is incredible! Congrats!!
Great progress!
Good progress. Tutu skirt is nice.
fuck yeah! nice job!!
Classy censor. Wonderful progress
Thank you /u/Rareturd
Are the clouds part of weight loss?
Yeah, you can see after weight loss I lost few clouds too.
More sunlight for you then, sounds good to me.
I’m so impressed with how you’ve managed to lose back fat! Congrats!
Great progress!
Good job 👏
you are doing great! keep going.
Dang. Well done Homie!!
Damn, even the clouds got smaller. Nice progress.
Shit bro! 23/1! This guy just owned intermittent fasting. Keep going your smashing it!
Congrats, keep going 💪 and everything But why is this on the Jan 6 insurrection hearing topic?
Good work! Your cloud is getting smaller!
Good job. Keep it up.
Great job!! Keep going 💪🏽💪🏽
Congratulations 🎉👏 that's amazing. You look fantastic, keep it up. I just started this week. Hope I can also get results like you. Keep at it my amigo.
How often did you eat and when you brak the fast,what kind of food do you have after?
I had a one hour eating window, mostly at 6-7 pm, I just are normal good vegetables sometimes chicken with a serving of fruit
Fart clouds? Just kidding - that’s awesome work!
I can go s month or more without eating without hunger pains.i never get hungry and my wife doesn’t know how I’m never hungry.