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I'm doing 24h breaks between 24h eating periods because I was slightly overweight. I lost 10lbs in less than 2 months without any additional restrictions or exercise. I noticed no side effects. It's also super easy to keep up esp. when compared with my previous attempt at restricting sugary snacks. 'When' is so much easier to manage than 'what'. If I feel hungry I just need to distract myself for few hours and it's fine.

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Wait, so you're just not eating every other day?

One day I'm eating only till 4PM and the other only after 4PM. And so on ... So the breaks are often a bit longer than 24h because I rarely have my last meal right before 4PM. But not as long as if I was eating every other day. Because then it would be two nights and one day between the periods of eating and I think that could be a bit much for me.

Absolutely fine thing to do IMO. Takes a tiny amount of resilience but works great.

Anorexia works!

Wow. Losing weight by not eating apparently is not the correct, moral way to do it either. That's a kind of shaming that even Ozempic patients don't get. Apparently the only moral way is to struggle with terrible exertion and discomfort and mostly fail but sometimes succeed. Only then you earned joining the club of people with healthy, normal weight.

Anorexia is when people starve themselves to an unhealthy degree based on mental issues, body dysmorphia, something like that. Someone intermittent fasting to lose excess weight and having success at it isn't the same.

The trouble is who do you ask? Because naturally people with eating disorders won't think, or say, they have an ED. They'll say they're living a healthier lifestyle and they're getting all the food they need.

I see this all the time with body builders. They're convinced they're healthy, but in reality, they absolutely despise food. It's a chore to them. And to top it off they have extreme body dysmorphia, often pushing them to drug use that kills them.

This is probably the dumbest comment I've seen on HN regarding weight loss so far, and that's really saying something considering the recent Ozempic thread.

Try weight loss tea instead. Will affect your sleep a bit, but you can eat normally.

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