Intermittnet Fasting Weight Loss?

[Anonymous]

For almost 2 years, I have been doing Intermittent Fasting 20:4 (20 hours of fasting & 4 hours eating window). I was able to successfully lose about 28 Kg's. It has been about 9 months now that I either go 2 Kg's up & down. So I think my body has adjusted itself to the level where it's not losing more.

In order to achieve my ideal weight, I still have about 23 Kg's to lose.

My question is to those people, who are stuck in a rut, what should be done in order to initiate the Fat burning again.

- Should I Increase the fasting time to 24 - 30 Hours?

- Should I implement 10'000 Steps a day?

Lifting weights & doing heavy exercises at the moment is out of the question. If someone has any experience in this area, I am all ears.

Thank You for answering my question.

[Anonymous]

There's a different type of intermittent fasting that works better over long periods. It involves 5 days a week of eating at the high end of your maintenance calories, and two non-consecutive "fasting" days. It keeps your metabolism high while giving you enough of a weekly deficit to lose about a pound per week.

The biggest problem with "daily" dieting is that your metabolism drops to account for the missing calories. But that drop doesn't happen instantly. So by eating at high maint for four straight days, and then only eating 800 calories (only meat and veggies), then another high day followed by another 800cal day, your metabolism doesn't get the chance to adjust before you start the next week.

[Opinion Owner]

If you decide to try it, you'll definitely need to ease into it. Going from 20:4 intermittant straight to high maintenance would be a mistake.

[jennifer_bloom]

You could do 6000 steps a day broken into 3-8 dividends of 6,000. Or you could do a half egg fast. Either eat eggs for more than one meal a day with other foods or have one meal a day that is only egg and maybe light flavouring added in if you do not want to eat plain egg such as adding ham or cheese to it.

[Guy13]

You are really discipline. I tried that and made it for five days. very impressive to me.