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My fat loss experiments with ChatGPT and water fasting

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This is a bit silly, and has the same tinge as lolcow posts about asking "Chat" when "my son in 3rd grade is going to graduate college". There are a million fasting apps that show based on how long its been since your last meal what is happening in your body, say ketosis or autophagy. Off the top of my head for Android there's Easy Fast, Zero, MyFastingApp (OSS); it's public information that doesn't require inference to derive

Yes, I know its silly to ask same question, what happens in your body every week to AI. Answers are mostly Same but Just to re-enforce idea, of what you body currently undergoing every few hrs helped me. For example, I watched "What happens with 36hr water fasting youtube video" every time I go on fast - It somehow keep right kind of mindset during fasting. similar to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URSwRHb4Uv0

Funny how this post appears in my timeline just above:

Fair Work Commission condemns 'plain wrong' AI legal advice | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497357

Folks, until LLMs (but more probably, something that succeeds them) know that they don't know, or know that they hallucinate, don't take medical, legal, technical, financial (...) advice without a fair amount of salt.

Yes, definitely dont take medical advice from LLM. Only thing, I suggest is taking food, which foods to take or skip. And also random questions to keep you on track with fasting. like "what happens if I take tiny fruit juice - does it break the fast etc"

I've tried fasting and intermittent fasting.

I got multiple times to 48+ hours, the thing that always kill the efforts to reach 72 hours is headache, no amount of brot and salt saves me. Hunger is not an issue after the first day it generally disappears.

In any case, recently, I swapped to just having a healthier lifestyle, I walk at least one hour 5 days out of 7, do weights twice a weak (mostly body weight exercises at home). Never felt better in my life, I find other approaches silly. If you're not disciplined to do X for your own health and well being fix the discipline, don't change the approach.

Also, it helps that I do this while working. I can do lots of stuff from my phone, including reviewing PRS, mails or pushing small fixes as I walk through the park.

I still plan for an occasional fast once a month of 36 hours, but haven't committed to it yet.

To be honest, for me the result is quite unbelievable. I never thought I'll lose 14kg in my mid 40's but managed to do it with very little exercise and following water fasting and mostly focused on diet, its surprising.

Looking back, when I was not remote working, I did intermittent fasting by default (not eating between 8pm to 11:30am), that kept my health in control. But WFH changed everything and gained weight.

If you end your water fasts at 48h circa, you're missing out on most of the benefits as the body fully enters fasting mode past 36h-48h. So in a sense you're ending the fast when it is just getting started.

Can't give you medical advice, just a benchmark tip: a short water fast is 3-5 days, the first 2 days being the most difficult ones.

My personal experience is that mind/spirit plays a major role. If i'm down mentally, i'll break my fast prematurely. If you think about it, the only difference between fasting and starving are your motives and mindset. So this is a major item, that people approching fasting from a purely medical angle often fail to appreciate.

Make sure you are at peace, and embracing a mindset of healing, spiritual renewal. Have something to do. For example, as a Christian, this is a time where I'll read the Bible, sing/workship more frequently throughout the day, and of course rest. You can do something equivalent independently from your religion.

I don't know if this mental angle can help with your headaches, but consider giving it some though in case this can help. That's all i can think of i'm afraid. Just my 2 cents.

Headache goes away after few days when body switches to full ketosis.

I did several one month water water fast, the brain sharpen after a week usually. And I stars getting headaches agents below 10% body fat.

Fasting for weight loss is a bad idea. Unless you truly enjoy the process (you wouldn’t be overweight/obese if you did), it is a temporary measure that does nothing for poor food habits outside dieting.

My experience is the opposite. Fasting is great to stop cravings making it much easier to eat healthier when braking the fast.

That is true presuming that the author does not intend to keep this fasting regime up after they reach their goal weight. There are certainly people who do long fasts on a regular basis.

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