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I started IF about two years ago. I gradually, over a very long period worked down to one meal a day. It wasn’t hard, because it was gradual. I didn’t lose weight (but I wasn’t overweight to begin with), but I have leaner stomach and I gained muscle and strength. I’ve never felt better in my life. The first improvement I noticed was mental clarity.

It is embarrassing that the BBC article gets all its information from only one “expert”, who doesn’t seem expert at all. So shallow. For me, the best source of solid evidence-based information about IF was Jason Fung’s Obesity Code.

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While not seriously overweight I had maybe an extra 10-15 pounds last year. Started just eating breakfast, a really fatty breakfast with bacon, ham, eggs, lard tortillas (they are the best) and salsa. Maybe 1500+ calories, I don't know.

Then I simply wasn't hungry the rest of the day. The intermittent fasts were seldom pure, I might have a few crackers or fruit or something if hungry and would occasionally eat a light lunch or supper as the occasion demanded.

Lost the extra weight in like 2 months. Jeans fit well again and belt was back to the first hole. I didn't do any extra exercise, just the usual walks and yard work. It was no kind of suffering or struggle at all so I've been mostly sticking with it.

It's also nice to only worry about essentially one meal a day.

How do you manage to cram ~2000calories down your gullet in on sitting?

It's pretty easy to do if you work your way up to it, if you eat normal it would make you sick at first but you would adjust quicker than you'd tbink. It's not really even unusual anymore, a lot of people eat that much for every meal.

Okay. I'll give it a shot. Give me the step-by-step process of getting where you are.

Just slowly eat more and more food to expand the size of your stomach, not really a trick to it or anything. I've heard the professional hot dog eaters drink large amounts of water with large meals to expand their stomachs though if you want to get there fast I guess. An actual step by step would probably just doing two 1k meals then shifting over 200 calories at a time if you are still feeling bloated.

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