7 Reasons Why I Quit Intermittent Fasting
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I did intermittent fasting for 7 years. I did it because I thought it was an easy way to get (and stay) lean.
What I didn't know was that I was hurting my body a lot.
I did not pay attention to all the warning signs my body was giving me that I should start eating breakfast (and more calories in general).
If you're currently doing intermittent fasting, check if you have any of the 7 warning signs. If you do, then maybe it's better to stop it.
Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor. I'm just sharing what I'm eating and what works for me. I'm still figuring things out, so don't blindly follow my advice. If you want to implement something I'm doing, I recommend you try it out for around 7 days and see if you feel better or worse.
Folks gotta realize that everything is not for everyone...
Exactly.
I had high blood pressure, high cholesterol and over weight, I started intermittent fasting and within 6 months my weight was back to normal and blood pressure and cholesterol were back to normal
That's great. I think the more weight someones has to lose, the more intermittent fasting is suitable.
IF is a good thing to practice when you are older and your metabolism slows down (and probably a little overweight). When you are younger there is no benefit on skipping breakfast. I learnt it the hard way.
Yes, me too. Though I also think IF can slow down your metabolism, so I'm not sure if I would want to play around with it when I'm older
I'm older now when I fasted it worked for 1 year to much stress on my body i had hair loss gaining weight blood sugars up and down I went back eating normal especially breakfast uped my carbs . My hair grew back I lost weight cortisol is down . One size don't fit all
My body was pretty much perfect until I was into my 50's when weight started creeping. The weight battle went back and forth for years. In my late 70's I began keto and fasting, got control of weight and improved health. Now I'm in my eighties and credit reasonable keto and occasional prolonged fasting with good health.
Glad to hear you're feeling better. I'm only 29, so I don't have experience with fasting at a later age.
I have been doing this for years. Long story short I realized I needed to change. It was instantly better. My mind was much sharper as well. I just work out early in the morning. And eat a well balanced breakfast, and decrease my calories in the evening.Great video.
Glad to hear you realized that it wasn't working (anymore) and made a change!
i did fasting for a year. now, im bloated, stress level high, this video is for me. Im planning to stop fasting everday. dats everyday. The long term effect in my body is terrible, i got sleep problems, moody and yes bloated. So today i decided not to skip meal, i experimented this IF coz its popular, but after a year , the results sucks. Thanks for this vid.
Good luck getting back on track. In the beginning it can be tough eating normally again especially if you"re bloated all the time. Chewin well can help make sure food gets digested well.
This video was extremely helpful. I have been IF for a while now. Everyone is saying you have to eat whole foods, but what if you don't have an appetite. I no longer have an appetite for food, causing my immune system to plummet. IF is good for the short term. I now have to force myself to eat breakfast because, as a female, not eating a hearty breakfast n skipping meals causes hormonal imbalance. If you need to shed some pounds, do it, but don't make it long-term. The stress you're talking about I've experienced as well, and that also doesn't give you an appetite leaving you bloated from your last meal. Also, difficulty sleeping.
That definitely sounds like you need more calories. Good luck with your recovery!
Same I can’t take any risks as I suffer from infertility I need to be fertile it’s not worth to risk it .
It completely ruined my face, and my eyesight eventually. My hormones went crazy and I suffered from a face completely covered in huge cystic acne that I needed accutane to combat. The cysts left huge pitted scars and accutane gave me a ton of permanent eye floaters. I was 37 so accutane for someone my age was dangerous. People just need to eat well, exercise, and be patient with weight loss.
Thank you so very much for this podcast, which I really needed to hear!! I have been doing IF for more than 10 months. I have recently realized that I just haven't been getting enough protein or calories. Have lost weight and really need to gain at least 10 pounds. Have been feeling lots of stress and thought it was because of my 2 Narcissist roommates. (Moving very soon!). They are away now on a long Christmas holiday and I feel even more stress. Feel so weak so often and sometimes legs are so weak that I feel as if I will fall if I take a nice walk. I will go back to regular eating right away. This IF is not worth it for me. Thanks again. Love, Jo
Glad you're listening to your body! The body doesn't run on air :)
Thank you for your video. I had a bad experience with intermittent fasting as well. It is not for everyone.
Exactly!
Thanks so much Bro. 🙏💝 This video was very informative. I suffer with all the issue you said here. I ve love all my energy n feeling lethargic all the time. It's time to restart eating normal. 👍
Hope you recover quickly!
Compliments to you for trying different things and for remaining critical and not dogmatic. If I may give some advice, whatever your age and preferences the best is to eat whole foods, unprocessed. And for someone over 40, IF was good way to get rid of some weight and insuline resistance. Im sure I didn't need it at 19. I am now back to whole, organic foods and trying not to worry about food too much.
Great advice. Whole foods make everything much easier. Though I've found it quite tough to eat enough with eating whole foods. But adding lots of butter helped with that.
Thank you for sharing your story
I had the same problems as you (and I'm also Dutch :p). My body was already easily stressed because of subclinical hypothyroidism, but luckily I found Ray Peat’s work. I started and tried fasting at 25, but it always felt bad (I tried to get rid of brain fog and it worked, but because of stress hormones). As my last resort, I tried low-carb to fix my health issues and it was absolutely horrible. I will never forget the extreme stress (I only did it for 5 months). Then I found Ray Peat on Twitter from ex keto/carnivore/low carbers talking about how Ray’s work saved them and I tried it and finally started slowly healing from the age of 27 (I'm now 29).
No one needs to fast in their 20s if you are active and sports orientated, if you are a computer geek then get outside
Agree! In your 20s you need plenty of calories, and fasting doesn't help with that.
Intermitting fasting is not for everyone in the first place. Secondly you need nutritious foods filled with all macro nutrients and fiber rich foods within your eating window, failing to do these will be problematic. Also consult a professional to guide you on the do’s and don’ts before going on this journey. Intermitting fasting and fasting in general has helped me in so many ways, in fact I feel very productive and energetic and clear mind with less hunger during fasting periods. Fasting is one of many tools of healthy living.
I also felt very energetic and productive while doing IF - untill I didn't. And then I started chasing the benefits I experienced before, when I should've just quit :)
So the problem wasn't intermittent fasting but the quality and quantity of food you were or weren't eating.
My quality was good. But it was mainly the quantity. But even after I upped the quantity I still couldn't fix my issues without stopping intermittent fasting.
So yes, intermittent fasting does not have to be an issue for everyone. But I think it can be problematical for a specific subset of people.
That's why I made the video. To have people take a critical look at whether intermittent fasting is actually helping or hindering them.
@@foodlogged8632 what kind of diet and nutrition plan were you following?
@@jordanpostle8641 same question, and did he try a Low Carb diet or a Keto diet as well?
@@jordanpostle8641 In the beginning most of my meals where meat + starch + vegetables. Later on when I started experiencing issues, I tried a lot of diets ranging from keto, low carb, Ray Peat, low-fat, carnivore, and more. But just eating normally was key to recovering.
You seem to have confused Intermitten Fasting (IF) with Caloric Reduction. The beauty of IF is the YOU taylor your hours of Fasting with your hours of Feasting. Preferably Feasting time under 12 hours.
Your Cold Hands and Cortisol maybe Insulin Resistance issues. Have you had IR checked out? Your Bloating and Tiredness could be Lectin Issues (see Dr Gundy’s videos).
I agree that it can be done healthily if someone eat enough. But I just couldn't eat enough for my needs in 8 hours a day.
I think the effects he talks about is due to the fasting, not the calorie reduction. You can eat a low calorie diet and not experience these things if you evenly space your meals throughout the day.
Shortly. Your body grows until age 29. Don't mass with it. In our 20s we ate a lot.
Yeah, I wish I would've realized that earlier!
Very enlightening thanks
I’ve been intermittent fasting for eight years and haven’t had any of his problems. Sounds like he eats the wrong food and not enough calories….his energy became low because his body never became fat adapted. His bloating is also a result of the wrong food , fasting allows the body to process previous food and toxins completely.
Glad to hear it's working for you. I definitely did not eat enough calories, which is easy to do on IF. Whole foods still caused bloating.
this is the video i needed,
Started I.F. 2 months ago and it resulted in unintentional caloric restriction, feeling bloated and constipated most of the time. I also developed acid reflux and still experiencing the symptoms. Felt tired and im an athlete who trains 4 days at the gym and 5 days on the track so i need around 3k calories daily, so i would try to smash 1k calories into each meal 3 times a day. My body does not digest it properly
Thanks for sharing you experience. You're lucky that you're starting to doubt IF after just 2 months. It took me 7 years before I started doubting.
Now you're in a bit of an annoying situation that you're bloated, but need to eat more calories. I would check your diet and see which calorie-rich foods still digest well for you. And then eat them more.
What worked for me was to add a lot of full-fat dairy, and fruits to my diet to increase calories.
And I also took some sodium acetate with meals to improve digestion. (You can make this by mixing baking soda with vinegar).
@@foodlogged8632 ok thanks!!
It took me 3 months to get rid of the acid reflux
@@Astrologcomedy how did u get rid of it?
@@estebronvideos3469 they say sips on some apple cider vinegar
Amazing video
Great video! This is not often talked about...IF led me to low thyroid and overeating😒
Yeah, the body doesn't run on air. I also struggle with being cold often, which wasn't the case before I started IF. Now, after a couple of years it's much better than it was while I was fasting, but I'm still figuring things out.
I've never been able to do IF. I have some blood sugar issues and if I don't eat for too long, I get weak and shaky. Granted, I'm thin already, so I need regular fuel as there's nothing to feed off of.
Thank you for sharing. Love , peace , joy and light . NAMASTĖ
Glad you liked the video!
I tried intermittent fasting along with starting a plant based diet and it completely destroyed my gut 🤢🤢🤢🤢 I've had weird stomach aches for months. Went to the E. R and they did an ultrasound and there's inflammation there.
That's not intermittent fasting. Its just fasting. And as such it is not supposed to go on for years.
I was doing the 16/8 schedule.
Being cold comes with being underweight, right? And not eating enough? IF does not = an eating disorder, but can certainly support this...I am beginning to be confused about the difference b/w IF and an eating disorder. It should not be about caloric restriction, right?
Intermittent fasting is just a way of eating, so it's not an eating disorder per se. It's also not always about caloric restriction, though it makes it very easy to undereat. When I was doing intermittent fasting I had a mild case of orthorexia. Hope that makes it clearer for you.
@@foodlogged8632 YES!!! It is truly unclear for me if there are benefits.
@@foodlogged8632 I tried IF and experience everything that you did - all 7 things!!! AND - I am a 53 year old post - menopausal woman, so its not just something that isn't right for "young" people. What I found is that I can only eat so much in one sitting... regardless if I skipped breakfast or not. I would get very hungry for lunch then could only eat so much until I felt stuffed and overly full, and had to spend a few hours in the afternoon feeling sick and uncomfortable because I ate too much. I do much better eating a good breakfast in the morning and then I find I'm not fixating on food for the rest of the day and eat just enough the rest of the day to satiate me and feel satisfied but not overly full. I agree about the orthorexia thing. I NEVER had any sign of that UNTIL I did IF where I didn't eat until noon. ALSO .... I was eating my second meal very late in the day - like 7:30, which messed with my sleep. I had terrible insomnia which I've never had before IF.
Thank you !
The last 6 months I’ve been doing ADF 36 hour fasts 3x a week Mon-Wed-Fri… on feeding days I’ll consume around 3500-4500 cals.. never felt better in my entire life!
Happy to hear you feel great. Just be sure to stay in tune with your body :)
Because you didn’t eat whole food, I think in a very younger age it’s not a good idea to do intermittent fasting just because you need enough nutrition to grew up. By the way intermittent fasting is not starve your self, you just can eat as much as you can but certain of period. It’s not just you have to punish your body and starve yourself. You have to eat whole food with full of protein which provide you energy❤
I ate whole foods with plenty of protein :)
It’s been 4 years now for me one meal a day (last/first meal 3-4pm. After 4pm no more food ) it does affect your life…in a very bad way.
I have had alot of healing eating brown rice, beans, and raw spinach.
Sounds like you did the fasting without paying attention to your nutrition and the types of food you were eating!
I was paying a lot of attention to what I was eating, but not enoug to how much I was eating haha.
good for you
I think unexperienced a lot of these seven symptoms, probably all of them, I have an intermittent fasting for almost 6 years now
because you didn't eat healthy foods I mean real foods, so it's not about IF. who needs intermittent fasting at 19 when you have high growth hormones.
My diet did consist of whole foods.
I had terrible acid reflux had to stop
Did it solve the problem?
That is happening to me rn
After around 4 years of IF I had issues with to much stomach acid resulting in unpleasent stomach pain during night and morning. I guess it was mostly because I ate meat and vegetables at around 6-7 pm and my body coudlnt digest it to well when I slept. I also felt at night like drying out: my skin was dry, my eyes were dry and I needed to wake up at night at least 4 times to drink water which led to bad sleep again because I needed to wake up and go to the toilet. Nights were a mess for me. I stopped with IF and started to eat trough the day again and shortly after these issues were gone. I now eat my main meal with meat at vegetables at around 12am at work, also have breakfast and in the evening before sleep only a Skyr yogurt with probiotics. My stomach issues are completely gone and my sleep has improved a LOT, I now can sleep for more than 4 hours without waking because of dry eyes, thirst or the urge to go to the bathroom.
IF isnt bad but also not for everyone
Do you think you were hypothyroid at the time?
what did you diet consist of!
In the beginning it was mainly meat, fish, potatoes, rice, vegetables, and fruit. But later when I started experiencing issues I tried a lot of different diets.
simple dont eat to much carb yes but in the long run eat normal and train your muscle
There's so much advice out there, that for a young guy trying to get lean it's easy to lose sign of 'normal eating'.
Most of your symptoms sound like you just didn't eat enough. And you fixed it by eating more. As you said. I have always hated to eat breakfast, so I have been naturally doing IF for +30 years, and havent had those issues.
But eating way too little all year around can indeed cause that, but then you should not blame IF, you should blame low calorie diet.
"I stopped eating too little, and it improved my life" would be more correct title in my opinion. IF were maybe the reason why you didn't eat enough, but reason you felt bad were that you didn't eat enough, not IF by itself.
Under eating puts some peoples body into stress everyone is not the same ot use to happen to me to and I'm not overweight from a child my body never handled stress good I'm 49 if I fast cortisol shoots thru the roof bloating unstable sugars and that's with keto. When I eat normal I no bloating stable blood sugars etc etc everyone is trying to make fasting work for every single person in the world when it's not good for everyone
I agree with your point about undereating and I'm happy to hear that IF is working for you. However, IF was the cause of my undereating. And for most young people fasting for 8+ hours a day makes it difficult to eat enough.
That’s the problem eating more normally is what got people in trouble like getting diabetes come on you got a long way to go.
What this guy is experiencing is not a problem with I.F. per se, but the pretty obvious fact that he didn't/doesn't eat a healthy diet. Eat the equivalent of an enormous salad daily full of leafy greens, cruciferous veggies such as brocolli, tomatoes, carrot slivers, avocado, cucumber, nuts, cheese, hard boiled eggs, etc (experiment). Make a healthy salad dressing by whisking together a quarter cup of heavy cream with a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, then add some avocado or olive oil (whisk again), plus whatever extra ingredients you prefer to make the dressing of your choice. Limit pasta, rice, and potatoes for the most part (don't go crazy). Avoid most bread products (you know what I'm saying). Have a healthy protein shake (e.g. BioTrust) daily. Optional, but recommended, four to eight ounces of quality meat/chicken/fish; plus a piece of the best new york style cheese cake you can find (we all need a daily reward). Replace your creamer with a half tablespoon of good quality butter in your hot coffee or tea. Do a cheat day once a week. You will be good to go.
Like I said in the video, I think IF can be done healthily, if you eat enough. My diet wat very clean at the time (resembling what you're saying), but I still had issues.
@@foodlogged8632 OMG - I can't believe these people trying to convince you youre WRONG. Where is everyone getting that you didn't eat whole, nutritious food??? Maybe I missed it in the video???????????
What is intermittent fasting plz explain
You eat in a 8 hour window then don't eat for 16 hours. And repeat. It can be 16/8, 18/6, 19/5, and 20/4. I've done 19/4 for 9 months now. I'm addicted but I think it's harming me.
IF is for persons in their 25-70 years old.
Yeah, growing bodies need plenty of energy.
People think they can eat whatever they want because they IF? It has to be part of a wellness regimen. Seems like this gentleman ignored other key components of the protocol and as a result had bad results and is now blaming not eating...believing that eating more will increase core body temp tells me all I need to know....food addiction is real and like any other addiction its a reaction to something else going off the rails...Imagine an alcoholic trying to justify why he absolutely has to start drinking again...
Let me tell you, you who are addicted to overeating: In Africa, there are people who go 3 or more days without eating, because they don't have much to eat. They live, and I remember for 17 years of my age me and other people being trained in dry fasting and prayer by my father who was a reverend in the church, it could be three days or 7 days, it helped us more, too bad we continue to do so. We are here. On the one hand you have to put your stomach at rest, have you calculated how many times have you eaten since the day you were born? your stomach is always at work morning and evening. It is necessary to renew the energy, by fasting. purify the body. Be at rest and that should help.
Lolz
Everything you describe is malnutrition, not really due to intermittent fasting