What do you guys think of water fasting 2 days every other week to speed up weight loss?

what do you guys think of water fasting 2 days every other week to speed up weight loss?

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drinking water will make you heavier you dumb fuck

haha damn dude, why don't you have your own late night comedy show yet?

Intermittent fasting is better, you lose weight and increase testosterone. It is very simple, two meals a day, skip breakfast.

More about dis, pls.

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Good luck buddy

That'll give you a nice big deficit so go for it. Not like it's going to hurt you or anything, epistle what the whiny faggots might say.

This also how sumo wrestlers eat. Literally the only thing that matters is quantity.

It works.
It's healthy
Try it out
If you feel ill or it makes it tough to live your life normally or you eat twice as much after the two day fast rather then ease back into eating...then you shouldn't do it.

Of course, i thought that was self-explanatory.

just find the /fast/ general in the catalog, you newfag

I understood part about eating shedule, but what's about testosterone? Ane proofs this diet works this way?

No trolling, just interested af.

I have book i will quote for you:

Intermittent Fasting: Intermittent fasting is quite simply abstinence from caloric consumption for a short period of time.

During this fasting period, an individual can consume non-caloric beverages without negatively impacting the fast, but no foods or caloric liquids should be consumed, or the individual leaves the fasted state.

Fasting has been used for centuries as a medicinal exercise in humans, and is a natural response for many animals during times of sickness or healing.

Arguing for or against the nature of fasting is not within the scope of this program. I will instead assume that you are reading this in order to learn more about how to increase your testosterone naturally, and therefore I’ll lay out the myriad benefits of IF for doing so.

Not only does intermittent fasting provide a means to decreasing body fat, either by easily facilitating a caloric deficit without the negative hormonal side effects of calorie restriction or by facilitating some of its own fatburning influence in the absence of a calorie deficit, making body recomposition more effortless, but it also boosts testosterone by influencing expression of key pituitary and satiety hormones including GnRH, LH, insulin, and leptin.

The research on intermittent fasting in the scientific literature is either, or both: 1. woefully nascent 2. non-applicable to both humans and/or us, fitness-conscious individuals.

Most short-term fasting studies are conducted in animals like monkeys, rats, or cows, and are carried out with methodological 48 - 72 hour fasts. For our purposes, this is considered a long-term fast, especially because most humans will never undergo a fast over 48 hours. And the results are non-applicable to us.

Almost all of these studies find the suppression of testosterone and an increase in circulating cortisol, as if that was a surprise. Between 24-48 hours of fasting, depending on individual variance, most humans will have an acute stress response to the lack of feeding. Hormones such as cortisol, insulin, growth hormone, and testosterone will likely be affected.

However, for fasts under 24 hours, the benefits are myriad, and this acute stress response is less likely. ! For example, in obese men short-term fasting was shown to increase LH production after just an overnight fast. While the LH increase in this case did not directly lead to a noticeable increase in testosterone levels in these men (it was, remember, a mere overnight fast) the increase in LH was promising enough for the same researchers to perform tests in nonobese men.

In the nonobese men, the results of a mere overnight short-term fast were staggering: a 67% increase in LH response and a 180% increase in testosterone. With this in mind, doing a short-term fast daily may have profound, almost immediate effects on your endocrine balance, especially because LH pulsing needs to spike regularly in order to have a noticeable effect on your overall T levels, something that regular daily intermittent fasts can have a positive effect on.

In terms of these results, short-term fasting appears to affect men differently based on their level of body fat, with normal, nonobese men seeing a rapid rise in LH, then testosterone following a short fast.

However, in obese men, the rise in LH does not seem to affect testosterone levels, which may be an indication that IF induces a strong enough stress response in this subgroup of men to effectively negate the LH increase before it triggers testosterone production or because it is not strong enough to overcome the powerful estrogenic influence exerted by the excessive levels of body fat.

Testosterone has been found to be positively correlated with insulin sensitivity, which also reinforces the idea that body fat levels matter in terms of healthy testosterone levels, with normal and fit body fat levels exhibiting improved insulin sensitivity over overweight and obese individuals.

This fact also sheds a bit of light on when we should fast during the day.

For years I’ve been a proponent of skipping breakfast. Since reading Martin Berkhan’s work and realising that breakfast was not a physiologically necessary, but more a socially expected, ritual, I began experimenting with life sans my morning sustenance. And boy did dieting get easier.

In Martin’s article on Leangains.com entitled, “Why Does Breakfast Make Me Hungry?” he sheds a little light on why most semi-fit individuals experience hunger relatively soon after eating breakfast, and why skipping breakfast is indeed preferable for your hormonal functioning, not to mention diet adherence.

The body’s circadian cycle has a natural cortisol spike shortly after waking, and this happens to be the time most individuals eat breakfast as well. With fit, or somewhat fit, individuals, the insulin spike with the food intake, along with an already high insulin sensitivity, and the high levels of circulating cortisol at this time of day leads to a rapid drop in blood glucose shortly after consumption.

The quick and possibly lower-than-normal blood glucose drop triggers the feeling of that “false hunger” within minutes to hours after that meal, so by mid-morning for most people. ! By skipping breakfast, you are regulating your blood glucose levels, insulin, and cortisol during the period of the day in which they are most sensitive, and can have profound immediate effects on your body.

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You are also allowing your body time to burn additional fat for fuel and rid itself of minor toxins before it needs to allocate energy to focus on things like digestion and glycogen synthesis. ! The hormone leptin is also effectively regulated by intermittent fasting, and has been shown to be inversely correlated with testosterone levels and BMI in men, which means with a regular IF regimen, individuals can control yet another hormone that could potentially exert an influence over testosterone production.

Leptin is more popularly known for its major role in regulation of appetite and energy balance, but it is also involved with linking energy stores to the reproductive system.

Leptin is secreted by the fat cells and plays an important role in reducing food intake and increasing energy expenditure. Recent rodent studies have also linked it to providing metabolic information to the reproductive system, both in females and males. In male mice, leptin treatment elevated FSH levels and increased seminal volume.

Leptin and testosterone levels are inversely correlated, with a rise in leptin resulting in a fall in testosterone and vice versa. Because of this, males have naturally lower levels of leptin than females. This gender difference suggests that gonadal steroid hormones may be potent regulators of leptin levels.

Because of the added variable of body fat levels being so intricately tied to both leptin and testosterone levels, it’s very difficult to make conclusive statements about the dance between the three. Lean men have lower leptin levels, naturally, than overweight men (because leptin is secreted from adipocytes). We also know that lowering your body fat, in general, is one of the easiest ways to naturally increase your testosterone. These are all intricately tied together.

Intermittent fasting decreases leptin levels during the fast in men, and boosts them at refeeding, operating in a peaks and valleys fashion. During the fast, leptin also has less power over regulation of the catecholamines epinephrine and norepinephrine which has positive implications for fat loss during the fast.

Intermittent fasting also increases levels of a hormone called adiponectin, which, along with leptin, is regulated by adipocytes, though adiponectin levels are inversely correlated with body fat levels, unlike leptin. This increase in adiponectin during the fast helps improve insulin sensitivity. Adiponectin is so powerful, in fact, that it’s been shown to reverse insulin resistance in mice. ! There are three popular methods for intermittent fasting that I recommend:

i. The Leangains Method ii. The Eat Stop Eat Method iii.The “Just Skip Breakfast” Method

Yes, other protocols exist. However, these three are the most realistic in terms of developing healthy lifestyle habits. Very few people can, or should, do things like alternate day fasting or 48 hour fasts. For the modern man or woman, with a job, kids, a family, social obligations, a sane mind, etc these are just not viable options. ! So in this program, I recommend you fast on one of the above three protocols.

1. Leangains: Leangains is Martin Berkhan’s style of intermittent fasting, and arguably the most popular and well-respected intermittent fasting protocol in the fitness world. He backs up his advice not only with solid research, but also with outstanding results from both his clients and himself.

He maintains low body fat year-round by eating and training on his protocol. ! Any summary of Leangains is bound to do it an injustice if you haven’t yet read the site itself. But in a nutshell, LG style of IF revolves around the 16/8 eating schedule. !

>16 hours fasting
> 8 hour feeding window

2. Eat Stop Eat: ESE is the brainchild of Brad Pilon, a proponent of flexible dieting and using intermittent fasting as a tool to make reaching low body fat levels both easy to attain and maintain.

The ESE method is also quite simple, but at the risk of not doing it justice in this concise summary, I highly suggest you check it out for yourself at Eatstopeat.com.

In a nutshell, ESE involves two 24-hour fasts per week as metabolic resets and fat-burning stimuli. ! For example, during a normal week, an individual could eat regularly every day except Wednesday and Saturday, electing instead to undergo a 24-hour fast.

If this protocol suits your personality or work/life schedule I recommend giving it a shot. Even one 24-hour fast per week will give you benefits.

3. The “Just Skip Breakfast” Method: This is the lazy man’s method, and my protocol of choice.

Just skip breakfast.

Then resume eating around noon for lunch then have a dinner and possibly a night time meal, depending on your caloric goals for the day. It’s very simple and doesn’t require counting hours.

Most of the time you will end up on a schedule similar to the Leangains 16/8 protocol, but this includes a bit more flexibility, possibly at the expense of results (ie. lower body fat), but that makes it a great lifestyle option.

To wrap things up on IF: use it as a tool to give you both lifestyle flexibility and a boost in your testosterone levels, especially when integrated into a solid training and nutrition strategy. You can train fasted or fed, they both work.

Regular fasting will also provide your body with a nice reset and potent fat-burning potential, which will, once again, aid in testosterone production and regulation of satiety hormones over time.

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It was more text than i imagined, but it is a short chapter. It is from the book Testshock Program by Christopher Walker which i highly recommend. Now i've done my part, it is time you do yours.

does this nigga really expect me to read all this shit?

Ok, fuck off then.

"n the nonobese men, the results of a mere overnight short-term fast were staggering: a 67% increase in LH response and a 180% increase in testosterone. "

Much respects to you, user.

Nice thread for once, bumping this.