Apr '23 • General discussion
How to lose weight naturally
How did humans lose weight during the hunter-gatherer times? Not that they needed to lose weight or intended for it, but food was scarce and back then it was normal to go several days without food, hence their method was through fasting.
Fasting is an ancient practice and intermittent fasting is the modern trend that draws from this practice, there is nothing new under the sun.
So who am I? I'm someone who used to be overweight, I'm 177cm/5'10 and used to weigh 83kg/183lbs.
During the summer of 2019 I managed to lose 21kg/46lbs in little over two months by eating one meal a day within a 1h eating window. At first I lost a bunch of waterweight, about 10kg/22lbs, then I began losing fat which is a slower process, I was dropping 1kg/2.2lbs per week and I weighed myself every monday morning on an empty stomach.
I was drinking water throughout the day and ate my one meal at 5pm everyday, most of the time out of habit, not because I was hungry.
As I got leaner, I would sometimes find myself at the same weight as the week before, a plateau, and the way I broke through it was by introducing walking into my daily routine.
I began walking 1 hour per day everyday and continued to lose 1kg/2.2lbs per week as usual.
As I got closer to my goal weight of 65kg/143lbs, I found myself at another plateau, this time I did a 48 hour dry fast and in the following week I would find that I had lost 2kg/4.4lbs doing this.
I continued to sustain my habits of one meal a day, walking for an hour a day and occasionally fasting 48 hours when necessary, this lead to me surpassing my goal weight and ended my weight loss journey at 62kg/136lbs which is the leanest I've ever been.
Today, almost 4 years later, I eat a normal 3 meals a day plus snacks and whatever I feel like eating, and I've successfully managed to keep the weight off while enjoying food to my hearts content.
This is only possible because I've built muscle since then which increases your metabolism, building muscle is the single best thing you can do for your weight loss journey long term.
Right now I'm 64kg and it is currently harder for me to gain weight than it is to lose weight, if you've been overweight your whole life you've never experienced what that is like.
I wish for you to be in this position of getting the best of both worlds so to speak, eating to your hearts content, having a good relationship with food and having a body you like.
This is something you can achieve and I'll help you with along the way, this is the beginning of your new life.
Enjoy your time here and once you've lost the weight, pay it forward by helping someone else on their journey.
Cheers.
Ayanle
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How to lose weight naturally
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In this group, we believe intermittent fasting is the natural way humans are supposed to lose weight and it's how I lost 21kg/46lbs effortlessly.
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