Hello to my friends who are winning at losing!
So what’s your story?
Are you just starting? Are you in the middle of your journey? Are you taking a pause? Are you in the final rounds? Have you been keeping it off for a while?
Is this strictly a fat loss effort or are you working on fitness too? Any other self-improvement things going on right now?
Are you doing this just with behavioral modification? Are you being assisted with some of the latest medications or surgeries available to us now?
Let’s get to know each other!
Been doing intermittent fasting 13-23 hours every day for 11 months so far and am in the final rounds. Started slow and increased the fasting time gradually. Lost 100 pounds so far. Only fasting, without any fitness program. “Just” behavioral modification. But the key for me is the why and then a commit. There has to be an emotionally loaded strong enough real reason to become healthier, or I wouldn’t have been able to do it so consistently. So I started with the why, gave it a lot of thought. Decided on a health and weight goal, wrote it down along with the reasoning, and then committed. The things I’ve been doing and that have become habit (and thus easy) are: