nicksaiz65
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Quick thread. I wanted to preface that this isn’t to b!tch and whine: I just want to get some clarification.
I’ve lost around 20 pounds through a combination of calorie counting and intermittent fasting/extended fasting. I’ve had to be pretty on top of it(even though this is the easiest/most sustainable way to lose weight in my opinion.) Then I see the way my friends eat and drink: and I’m thinking, “how are you not 300 lbs?” Yet they’re thin as rails.
My friends will literally eat out at all you can eat buffets 3 times a week. On top of that, they’re binge drinking(drink until you pass out) at least twice a week. I’ve managed to avoid the weight gain and keep losing by fasting around these big social meals, and trying to keep the drinking to 2-3 drinks when out. And if I have just a stupid cheat day where I totally blow it, I do a full extended fast for one day(or two) after. If I hadn’t learned how to fast around these big meals or eat less after these big cheats, I’m sure I would be up to at least 275 lbs by now.
But I know for a fact that my friends don’t fast like I do, especially for a day or longer. They don’t even do intermittent fasting because they talk about breakfast sometimes. I’m pretty sure they don’t do extreme cardio to burn off all those calories. They just lift(which doesn’t burn very much.) And they just eat “normally” in between these huge binges.
This flies in the face of everything I know about CICO, calorie balance, and thermodynamics. I know it’s all CICO at the end of the day. But how can a situation like this happen? You’d think they would be gaining weight at an exponential rate, but they remain rail thin.
P.S. Any tips for avoiding the whole binge drinking thing? I’m pretty sure that my friends are drinking so much to cope with approach anxiety(using alcohol as a crutch.) We end up buying rounds, and it’s like “you can buy the next round.” But when 3 drinks are $50, it really hurts the wallet. To me, it’s not even worth drinking at that point. I don’t want to come off as a bad friend, or a cheapskate. But I seriously hate coming home from a night out with my wallet $150 lighter, every single week. That really hurts. (Also, I know that the binge drinking is where all diets go to die. If I am binge drinking, even the fasting won’t save me and I won’t lose any more weight.)
I’ve lost around 20 pounds through a combination of calorie counting and intermittent fasting/extended fasting. I’ve had to be pretty on top of it(even though this is the easiest/most sustainable way to lose weight in my opinion.) Then I see the way my friends eat and drink: and I’m thinking, “how are you not 300 lbs?” Yet they’re thin as rails.
My friends will literally eat out at all you can eat buffets 3 times a week. On top of that, they’re binge drinking(drink until you pass out) at least twice a week. I’ve managed to avoid the weight gain and keep losing by fasting around these big social meals, and trying to keep the drinking to 2-3 drinks when out. And if I have just a stupid cheat day where I totally blow it, I do a full extended fast for one day(or two) after. If I hadn’t learned how to fast around these big meals or eat less after these big cheats, I’m sure I would be up to at least 275 lbs by now.
But I know for a fact that my friends don’t fast like I do, especially for a day or longer. They don’t even do intermittent fasting because they talk about breakfast sometimes. I’m pretty sure they don’t do extreme cardio to burn off all those calories. They just lift(which doesn’t burn very much.) And they just eat “normally” in between these huge binges.
This flies in the face of everything I know about CICO, calorie balance, and thermodynamics. I know it’s all CICO at the end of the day. But how can a situation like this happen? You’d think they would be gaining weight at an exponential rate, but they remain rail thin.
P.S. Any tips for avoiding the whole binge drinking thing? I’m pretty sure that my friends are drinking so much to cope with approach anxiety(using alcohol as a crutch.) We end up buying rounds, and it’s like “you can buy the next round.” But when 3 drinks are $50, it really hurts the wallet. To me, it’s not even worth drinking at that point. I don’t want to come off as a bad friend, or a cheapskate. But I seriously hate coming home from a night out with my wallet $150 lighter, every single week. That really hurts. (Also, I know that the binge drinking is where all diets go to die. If I am binge drinking, even the fasting won’t save me and I won’t lose any more weight.)
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