Intermittent Fasting: Safe for the Food Addict?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.พ. 2025
- So what about intermittent fasting for the food addict? (Lecture)
There are lots of benefits but for early recovery of food addiction, it is a double edged sword - use with caution or hold off for now!
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Excellent video! I'm not hungry until about 12-1pm, so that's when I have my first meal, which is my main meal. I may have a small snack around 3-4 pm, but only if I'm truly hungry. My final smaller meal is around 6pm. I no longer call it intermittent fasting; I call it eating when I'm hungry. A few years ago, I did 24 hour fasts, up to 36-48 hours. I was swepdt up in this fasting craze. I finally realized this behavior was another form of feeding my abusive relationship with food. Thankfully, what I'm doing now, and in great part to you, Dr. Tarman, is that I'm a food addict, and no longer "feeding" these behaviors. It's helped me greatly, and I'm truly on the road to recovery.
I think your videos are awesome!! Thanks for pointing out food addiction, it's not only sugar addiction! and not about moderation, it's about cutting out, thanks!!
Great video! Many people that have been dealing with obesity have been adopting some fasting protocols and I'm glad that you present both the benefits and the problems. For those of us that have developed a screwed up relationship with food we have to thread lightly with fasting. I think that what really helped me was to become fat adapted by eliminating sugars and starches and sharply reducing any other carbs. That way it was much easier for me to eliminate snacking and just eat during my 2 or 3 daily meals. Some days I can have a very large meal and I'm just not hungry for the rest of the day. I just have a tea at night. With this method I was able to lose 100 lbs and maintain the loss. But I still was 50 lbs overweight. The only way that I found to break the plateau was to add 2 days of (almost) fasting a week. I allowed myself to sip some broth or bulletproof coffee (but with less fat than the original bulletproof coffee), making me eat less than 500 calories in those 2 days. The fat adaptation allowed me to go through those days without hunger. But if I was hungry I would add some hard boiled eggs to the broth. The key is not to stress the body with too much hunger. With this strategy I was able to reach my goal weight and I just reduced the fasting to one day a week in which I have limited food and I meditate. The body makes it very hard to lose weight so it tends to reduce our metabolic rate if we fast too frequently. 1 or 2 days a week tricks the body to maintain the same metabolic rate. But we have to be careful with hunger because that can definitely prompts binges if we are not careful. That's why I always have something soothing that fast day and I'm willing to eat more if my body is telling me that it needs to eat
yes, we war on the same page - thanks for your commentary
Fasting of any type can be a trigger for those with a history of eating disorders.
Thank you for all the information !!
Im 52 female. 4 days a week, I eat 1 time per day in the morning. 3days a week, I eat 2x per day. keto all month except feast day, which is 1x per month. I have always been obsessed with food. This way of eating helps my pain from autoimmune and I am now maintaining good blood glucose and weight. However, I want to change my addictive and obsessive thoughts toward food. It is like Im possessed by a demon. Any ideas how I can stop dreaming and desiring tarimisue? I bet people addicted to substances feel like this. Thank you for this video. God bless you and your work, Dr. V.
Also, Im definitely not hungry. Maybe I need to find new ways of getting pleasure. 🤔
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Less sound effects throughout the video would be better.
Sound reasoning! We agree.