Intermittent Fasting is Not Working for Me!

Intermittent fasting is not working for me. What's wrong?

Fasting to lose weight only works if your average daily consumed calories goes down. If you eat more than twice as much on the days after you fast, then a day without doesn't help.

I sometimes eat a large meal the night before to tide me over. And I'm always starving the next day.

It is normal to feel hungry after not eating for a day. But if you are eating more makeup calories than you would have eaten on the fasting day, you aren't going to lose weight.

Why else might it not be working?

Fasting might mean avoiding food for a day, but you can't shun water, too. Dehydration slows you down physically and metabolically.

I've heard that drinking a lot of water is a keystone to every diet.

You gain weight if you are dehydrated but your body misinterprets thirst as hunger, eating instead of drinking. And drinking more water replaces soda and juice with calories.

I do lose weight if I don't drink.

It's all water weight, and you gain it back the first few hours you grab a water bottle and literally refill.

If I do drink water, will periodic fasting help me lose weight?

Only if you aren't pigging out the day before and after. If you can't control that, you might as well live on a sensible diet or even a strict diet.

That's hard to do. It leaves me hungry all the time.

So does fasting.

Fasting is for a day here and there.

Switch to a regular diet with more fruits and vegetables without a high calorie density. If you are munching on carrots and celery and such, you won't feel as hungry.

That has so much fiber, it will be like a cleanse diet.

It's better than fasting without losing weight.

Intermittent Fasting is Not Working for Me!
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