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Shannon Bradshaw's avatar

I am a 59 year female and Intermittent fasting as a lifestyle has kept me slim. I only eat two meals a day, no fast food, rarely eat out, no processed food. I eat meat from Wild Pastures, butter, eggs, veggies and very little fruit, mostly just berries. I agree toxins create inflammation which creates fat and therefore I don’t drink alcohol ever. I also don’t drink caffeine since MRI’s of the brain shows a cup of coffee reduces blood flow to the brain by as much as 52%.

I was covid vax injured but the intermittent fasting along with ivermectin and other supps cleared out most of the spike protein and the nattokinase broke up the microclotting so I got my breathing back and got off the oxygen tank. I still take a lot of the supplements for good health.

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Miko (Socialism Survivor)'s avatar

I think that are four reasons for it based on my experience and observation of those around me. In order of importance, first, I would argue that is the lack of movement - sedentary life will result in weight gain (at least it has in my case). Working in cyber security and AI means that I spend too much time in front of computer and unless one attempts to compensate, the weight gain is almost a given. This happened three times during my life so I do not think that it is just a random occurrence. Before I got married and had kids, I used to run and exercise regularly. Since I have had kids, that changed (and it is changing again as they grow older) as I no longer had the time to keep up with the exercise. Second, the time spent to get and prepare the food also changed. Before kids, looking for the ingredients and taking time to cook the food was something that could be managed. Now the kids are first so the quality of what I eat is lower than it used to be. Third reason? Age. I have to do a lot more exercise when compared with 20 years ago to get the same results. Unfortunately, I do not have a solution long term on how to mitigate this one because one's body can take only so much before things start to "fail". Final reason? Sleep or rather lack of. If you do not get good sleep regularly, then I think that again, you gain weight. Rest seems to be essential, at least in my case, to prevent significant weight gain. A couple of other things that I found useful - restricting intake of food to 8 hours per day (say between 11am and 7pm) and actually following the fasting routines indicated in the Christian calendar - I admit I was sceptical but it does seem to work well (at least it did for me for the past 3 years).

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