I have tried every diet and CI/CO scheme under the sun. I started dieting in my teens and I'll be 54 this year.
A few that come to mind: Weight watchers, TOPS, Atkins Diet, Carb cycling, Intuative eating, Volumetrics, Mediterranean Diet, Scarsdale Diet, Fast Metabolism Diet, Plant Paradox Diet, Beach Body etc etc etc.
Truth be told, I probably never even really wanted to lose all the weight, because I knew with rock solid certainty that I had no idea how to keep it off. So really, why bother.
But my body is not a calculator, it is a chemistry experiment and obesity is a disease of hormonal imbalance, specifically of too much circulating insulin.
Two ways you can reduce insulin:
1. Ketogenic diets (unsustainable for me - I don't do well with too much fat or protein so the weigh loss is temporary)
Or I can just eat what I want...and then NOT eat for longish periods of time (16-20 hours) allowing my body time to reduce circulating insulin and tap into fat reserves.
When I used to not eat in the evenings when on this or that special diet, I always felt deprived and usually very, very hungry. My Grehlin (hunger hormone) production must have been totally out of whack.
But now I just eat what I want, and when I stop eating, I feel like I'm not depriving myself but I'm allowing my body the time and resources to first digest and then get on with important healing and clean up work as well as allowing it to tap into my fat reserves.
It's about an hour to my eating window and for some reason I'm hungrier today. I am learning that this happens just before another big "whoosh" of weight loss, so I'm looking forward to the coming week!! And I'm looking forward to the rest of the year and the rest of my life!
I have found my "FastSecret"!!
