Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

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Tired of counting calories, eliminating foods from your diet, or obsessing about food all day? If so, an intermittent fasting lifestyle might be for you! In this book, you will learn the science behind intermittent fasting, and also understand how to adjust the various intermittent fasting plans to work for your unique lifestyle. The best part about intermittent fasting is that it doesn’t require you to give up your favorite foods! You’ll learn how to change WHEN to eat, so you don’t have to change WHAT you eat. Are you ready to take control of your health, and finally step off of the diet roller coaster? All you have to do is learn how to “Delay, Don’t Deny!” April has lost almost 60 pounds and feels great. IF has corrected her appetite and taught her to listen to her body. While she would like to lose more, April enjoys food without guilt, which has been a very powerful experience for her! The stats: while I’m sure I exceeded 250 pounds during the summer of 2016, my highest recorded weight was 247 pounds in the previous May. I wore a size 22-24, or a 3X. I now weigh 147 pounds, and I wear size 3/5/7 jeans depending on the brand, a size small or medium shirt, and a size 6 or 8 dress.

Intermittent Fasting Stories – by Gin Stephens

My story begins like a lot of the other stories I have seen. I am 49, but most of my life I have dieted or at the very least obsessed over my diet. I was always the bigger kid growing up, probably not by huge difference but in my mind, I was always big! I had my first child at eighteen and probably put on over 70 pounds. I prayed each time at the end going to my OB that I wouldn’t top 200. I went on to have 2 more children and at 26 I was settled into motherhood and always had weight to lose,..I would say anywhere from 30 up to 80 pounds more than I needed. At 30 years old I began slowly running and at 33 I did my first Chicago marathon and 2 years later I did my second. I truly enjoyed running and did manyraces, includingseveral half marathons, and completed 2 full marathons. I was very focused on accomplishing running goals and weight loss came as a result. I continued running until a few years ago after a long struggle with increasing right foot pain, which I learned was a stress fracture that left me in a boot for 3 months, I suffered from some plantar fasciitis after and it took its toll on me emotionally and physically. I always noticed how I was never hungry naturally until around 2pm everyday, so I decided I would try eating just dinner and also starting looking to see if anyone else did something crazy like this to lose weight and get healthier. There’s a variety of approaches, and whoever decides to give it a go, decides what works best for them.“Delay Don’t Deny” covers all of the different plans folks are doing, and Gin encourages the reader to find their own path. In a nutshell, intermittent fasting helps with making food more about something you enjoy, and less about something you crave. Long story short: after 777 days, a first year of 20:4 IF and a second year of mostly <2 hour eating windows, I attained my goal of losing 100 pounds.Well, thank goodness my sister Katie introduced me to IF on December 27, 2016. When she explained this way of eating, my response was: no, that can't be. How can you eat everything you love and eat all those carbs and lose a lot of weight? Knowing my sister, she LOVES her salads and vegetables, and can pretty much live off of that stuff alone. I was very hesitant, BECAUSE I LOVE MY CARBS .... and I thought her weight loss was because of her love for salads and vegetables. My thought was, what can it hurt? The worst that can happen is I wouldn't lose weight .

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I truly love Gin's book because the information saved my life. I truly love Gin's Facebook groups because when I was crying they welcomed me and cried with me. Soon when I started to laugh, they laughed with me. Gin and this group became my world. To them I will be forever thankful. Thank you to many of the IFers in the DDD community: Gin, Kim, Sheri, Jeethah - for sharing your stories ❤️ Meanwhile, I found running in 2003 and truly enjoyed it, training almost daily, completing 5 half marathons over the years and successfully managing my weight with it. I’d brag to friends that I never diet, and run so I can eat and drink whatever I want, whenever I want. And I did. The metabolism of my 30s made it possible.

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My name is Melissa and I am a food addict... I lost over 100 pounds in 10 months with Intermittent Fasting. In the Summer of 2017 I made a trip to Bed Bath and Beyond and on a whim, I decided to step on one of their operating scales. Before I did, I guessed that at 5’ 7.5” that my weight would be in the 160-pound range. I knew that wasn’t great, but in my mind, I could justify it. So, I stepped on the scale and it said 188.8 pounds. I stood in the store in front of two other women and wept. If you're in a calorie deficit then you'll lose weight. There is nothing special about fasting that makes it easier/slower or anything else.

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Gin is down to earth, factual, and by her own confessions, a professional dieter. Her tone is conversational, and she does a fantastic job of translating all the science-y words. By the end of March of 2022, Leah reached her highest weight. A close friend gave her Fast Feast Repeat, and Leah began her IF journey that very day! She has lost 50 pounds, her skin and nails improved, and Leah felt her very best. My sister noticed my success and asked me about it and I told her what I was doing and she seemed a bit skeptical. No way was I going to try to push her towards it with all she was going through but I knew she was miserable. :( Then around the end of October, I went to see her and she said, "Ok, you need to tell me more about what you're doing". And there you go. She started November 1, and I am so thrilled for her!! I don't really weigh anymore but I think I am down around 40 pounds and down from a size 14/16 and XL to 8/10 and sm/med. We were both so busy last year trying to get her through chemo (she went into the hospital for five days, every 3 weeks, for a total of 6 treatments) that our eating habits got out of hand. As she mentioned (below), they told her to eat whatever and whenever and that is exactly what we did. And because I adore her and she is my hero, I was there with her for every bite! LOL.

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My One Meal a Day Intermittent Fasting Journey started on January 3, 2017. On New Year's Eve I was at 283 pounds, had high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and elevated enzymes on my liver. I felt bad and was tired of being me. You can sort the live feed by most recent post, last active post, and a variety of other sort methods. By August of 2020, Teresa had reached her highest weight of 302 pounds. She learned of IF from a parent at her school. She read Delay, Don’t Deny and immediately began her IF journey. It's now September 2017. I wobble between 146-148, but my body looks completely different. I'm wearing anywhere from 4s to 8s in clothes. I'm sleeping well, my skin looks better, and I have tons of energy. I had a physical recently and the doctor said all my lab tests look great - my HDL was so high it offset my high LDL.