70 Lbs Lost in 6 Months - Alternate Day Fasting (Before & After Pics)

what's happening you guys my name is Steve I'm 42 years old I'm six foot four and six months ago I weighed 313 pounds today I weighed 243 pounds in this video I want to discuss exactly what I did what protocol I followed to lose 70 pounds in six months let me start off by telling you what I didn't do I did not do tons of exercise now in my 20s and 30s I was very physical I did lots of exercise I used to run constantly I probably ran 50 miles a week maybe when I was in my 20s slowed down a little bit it used to lift weights quite a lot and in spite of that in my 20s and 30s my weight kept going up and up and up not by much but just a little bit until probably by the time I was 38 39 I weighed somewhere in the range of 260 270 and that kind of became normal for me even though I was working out and even though I had a very physical job this was the case and in late 2015 I got sick I have uncontrolled asthma and that asthma just knocked me out it had been getting worse for a few years and it just finally knocked me out in in late 2015 and I was out of work for all of 2016 on disability could not exercise and in that year I gained an additional 30 pounds because I just could not breathe so I had not exercised much to lose this weight I did not spend money I did not buy pills shakes supplements I did not hire a personal trainer I did not do crazy food restrictions to lose this weight in other words I didn't go on any special diet I ate pretty much the foods that I like Pizza including pizza drinking beer ice cream you know popcorn no restrictions whatsoever really on the things that I ate I ate whatever my family ate so whatever my oldest daughters or my wife fixed for dinner that's what I ate not picky I'm still not picky I don't consider myself to be a health nut and I do not have perfect willpower discipline I did not lose this weight because my willpower or discipline is some superhuman level in fact just to give you perspective I'm talking about a six month period there was one whole month where I totally screwed up I ate whatever I wanted I was off the wagon for basically an entire month of this six months and I still had great results I still lost 70 pounds so if and if I had great willpower this is why I'm a normal guy I want to get this across I'm just a normal dude middle-aged dude with a dad bod to prove it if I'd had great willpower and discipline I would have never got fat in the first place okay if I really knew what was happening I would have never got fat in the first place so that's what I want to talk about in this video so those are the things I didn't do I didn't go to any extremes really to lose this weight what I did was I used fasting protocols alternate day fasting is the primary protocol that I used before I started alternate day fasting I was hungry all the time in fact I'm gonna put a picture up here so you can see my first video okay so up here in this side of your screen you'll see a picture of me this is just a screenshot of what I look like in my first video my personal introduction to alternate day fasting link in the description and you can just see that there's quite a difference between then and now but when before I started alternate day fasting I was hungry all the time my stomach was constantly growling even if I just eaten an hour ago or two hours ago I had cravings I would come home from work and I just crave sweets okay and there was no limit I crave carbs there was no there's no point like where I'm gets to a point of satiety where I felt sated okay I could just eat the whole pizza I could eat the whole box of frosted flakes and it just didn't have that much of an impact in and I crave those things I crave sugary cereals I craved you know pizza ice cream anything sweet swedish fish was one of my favorite candies and I just crave these things all time and if I didn't get them I get the shakes you know I get like weak and fatigued and just feel like I needed to eat I had high cholesterol I had high blood pressure my blood pressure for the past three years had been creeping up to crazy levels so to basically a borderline hypertension I had edema I had water retention in my legs and elsewhere like I could actually push on my skin and leave an imprint and I couldn't breathe as I said part of that was asthma and part of that was just tons of belly fat around my middle and not being able to bend over and tie my shoes without holding my breath or you know not being able to exercise not being just feeling so heavy I mean carrying 70 pounds that's like you imagine that in a backpack or something you know that's how hard that is on the knees on the joints in fact I sprained my ankles twice in the past couple years and so my starting weight was 313 pounds I had extreme fatigue I was tired all the time I had brain fog the foods that I was eating the very the sweets the sugar the carbs were making me very tired so I would eat and I'd be tired for like an hour afterwards I'd fall asleep on the couch all the time and just felt really exhausted and because I was fat because of all the other health problems I was depressed and as an emotional eater that led me to more consumption so it was like I was just stuck in this cycle and I'll show I'll throw up some other pictures here as I'm talking but so I started alternate day fasting in early March of this year six months ago within two months my LDL cholesterol was down my HDL cholesterol the quote unquote good straw was up my triglycerides were normal my blood pressure had stabilized the metabolic profile that they do and the blood work up your liver function your blood glucose all that sort of stuff was perfectly normal I had no fluid retention anymore my asthma was better I was breathing better I could exercise again in fact there's a picture up here where I'll show you the my chosen exercise now which is rucking so I strap on a heavy backpack it may not look like it but the backpack weighs usually 50 or 60 pounds depending on the day depending on how I feel and I just go for a walk for a few miles and sometimes I'll even do a little like jogging while carrying that backpack I have good steady energy it's consistent and I have great mental focus so all of my symptoms that I had before are pretty much gone okay so what specifically did i do i got into alternate day fasting alternate day fasting is where you eat one day you eat the food you're gonna eat you eat normally and then the next day you restrict your calories when i started out i was restricting my calories to 500 calories a day and that was almost always in this form of a salad did i eat about 6 or 7 o'clock at night and now what i do typically is zero calorie days so I will simply eat one day and then not eat the next day that's what alternate day fasting is it's a day on day off up day day so fasting and feasting and through this cycle your body does not go into starvation mode because you're eating every other day you're taking you know calories and every other day there's no starvation mode until you're actually starving until all the adipose tissue the fat tissue the the Big Macs and cheeseburgers and years of pizza and ice cream till all that's gone I'm not starving okay so you know my energy level stays high I don't feel tired I don't have cravings anymore I'm not at the whim of my food I can I can say no to foods that used to be a real problem for me but you know and you know I feel set free basically I'm lighter not just in body but also in emotions and you know spirit you know in just about every way in terms of what I can think and and my emotion of my feelings like how often I get depressed and feel sad and stuff like that all of this has been improved it's like when the weight came off so did a lot of other entanglements and so I've been able to increase my exercise I've been able to start living life again and in kind of like that movie The Shawshank Redemption he says get busy living or get busy dying you know for a long time I was kind of in death mode you know I was just thinking about all the limitations I had and depressed about them and now I'm in life mode now I'm like pushing myself and challenging myself myself and that's what I've done so in the course of this channel I started out small with my fasting protocol and then I kept stretching things I kept stretching how much I was able to do and you know and I realized a lot about myself I've realized what my problem was my problem was not willpower my problem was not discipline and it wasn't that I wasn't exercising enough or anything like that my problem was that I was eating too much too often and the wrong kinds of food and that is a that's the quintessential way you can say it for the American diet too much too often and the wrong food food that is toxic to the body so I started with almost no restrictions as I said I ate the foods that I liked on my feasting days and on my fasting days I restricted calories and that's basically how I've done this it's a very simple thing it doesn't cost money continued practice I found out that that fasting and teaching our body is just like you know building up our muscles it's just the same exact thing you think you can't do it but you can with practice you can and actually the culmination of the past six months I did a 10-day extended fast I'll put a link to the playlist and on in the description so you can check that out if you want to buy dia ten-day extended fast zero calories and it was great I had some struggles with it but I learned from it I keep moving so continued practice I've learned more about my body I know now what my real problem is my problem is not that I just am a fat but it's not just that I am a loser you know but there are hormonal things that were going on in my body that needed to be addressed and I've started to address them when I started I started fasting before I really did a lot of research you know I just sort of jumped into it I watched a few videos on YouTube jumped into it and then I did the research so I read the work of dr. James Johnson dr. christow barity Jason Fung Brad Pilon Michael Mosley who advocates the 5:2 diet and here on YouTube doctors Erik Berg and Darren Schmidt and learned a lot from them about the value of intermittent fasting and the benefits and the pitfalls and all that I did my research afterwards and I just decided to make a channel that was a testimonial okay that would just kind of give motive first of all record the thing for me so that I can look back on it and say well what was I doing or what was you know what was that like I wanted to record the process but I also wanted to give people an opportunity to see a normal person I don't have a six-pack I'm not gonna be on the cover of men's health that dream is gone okay that's back in my 20 somewhere I'm just a normal guy I don't have roid rage I don't look like that guy from Napoleon Dynamite that was wearing the American pants you know I'm just a normal dude and so I just wanted to show people what is possible with an intermittent fasting protocol real simple and so here's what I've learned in the past six months I not have to eat all the time food does not jerk me around I don't have to be jerk around by food or drink okay I do not eat all the time and probably the way that we're supposed to live if you think about history human history we are not supposed to eat all the time where our whole history has been marked by periods of fasting and feasting feasting and fasting and so those intermittent periods I am just following the way that people have lived for thousands of years this whole idea that we have to eat all the time is a fairly new idea it's a it's an idea that's new to modern Western civilization and it doesn't even exist everywhere in the world it's just kind of unique to us and that's why Americans and Brits and and Germans and Australians and people that are part of Western civilization they're struggling with obesity because they're eating all the time the key to weight loss second thing I've learned is to eat less often it's not to eat less that's important to understand it's not to eat less it's to eat less often so I'm eating less often I'm only eating every other day and there's lots of other people who don't do that who don't go to that level but who maybe just eat within a time window okay so they only eat for eight hours a day or six hours a day and that's something you can do one of the great things about fasting is its flexible it's totally flexible and one of the questions that I had to ask myself early on because people always say that just sounds so hard I just seems so difficult here's what's difficult it's difficult being fat it's difficult being sick it's difficult not being able to play with your kids or do things or work or do the things that you want to do to live your life being fat and sick is what affects your quality of life okay if you have a so you choose your challenge that is a challenge to be fat is a challenge and it's a miserable thing okay it's like being it's like being in jail and you're just encased in your own body no one who's fat appreciates it or loves it no one says oh I lost weight and I felt worse it just doesn't happen so you choose you know you to you can either choose for things to stay the way they are or you can choose change and that's what I decide to do I chose change so I'm eating less often I learned about fake hunger that's another thing I learned that fasting taught me that even if I fast for eight days the hunger pangs that I feel are no different than the ones that I felt on day one they pass they're manageable they don't constitute true hunger as I said when I was at my fattest I was hungry all the time and this is a common complaint of people or this is a common thing that happens in an occurrence people who are fat or hungry all the time and so they think the solution is to eat but that it's that's not the solution the solution is to let go of that food take some time off from it because the stuff that you're feeling is hormonal those the feeling of discomfort of a hunger pang is hormonal it's your body your body's habit your body's routine this is all habit we learn you know the foods that we think we have to have the sugary starchy stuff that we think we have to have it's habit it's something that we formed and it can be broken it can be changed so hunger you know my body is under subjection I am NOT going to be a slave to my own body it's gonna serve me I'm not gonna serve it I will serve it in the sense that I will try to put good Foods in it and take care of it but I won't be its slave so that's part of the reason I'm not gonna be on the cover of men's health I am not willing to exercise two hours a day in the gym to try to beef up and and why I just want to be healthy I just don't want to be fat and I think that's where most people are so you know I nor fake hunger now I know that I'm you know I can deal with it it's manageable I don't have to eat all the time when I was eating too much and too often and and the wrong foods I have I had certain triggers here's things this is something fastings taught me I've learned it when I watched I have cravings I've learned that when I am bored I have I'm more subject to cravings or if I'm tired and didn't get enough sleep or if I'm stressed out or worried about something and you know I've just this is something that fastings taught me this is something I learned about myself in the past six months that I didn't really know before another thing I've learned is that the fatigue for years and years there was a joke in my family that the men in my family if they were hungry became dangerous because we always got irritable and pump wanted to punch a hole in the wall or someone's head and here's what I know now it's not that is there's not something going on some mysterious hereditary hereditary affliction that makes us have to eat we're just sugar addicted the men in my family are just addicted to sugar so the weakness the tremors the fatigue the shake said I used to get because I hadn't eaten in four or five hours what sugar addiction I learned that about myself fasting taught me that another thing I've learned is that when you fast your appetite is suppressed think of it it's counter intuitive I know but your appetite is suppressed you you stop having cravings and you stop being jerked around by that appetite your body learns in time with practice insulin resistance okay another thing I've learned is I knew nothing about insulin resistance when I started this fast this fasting business I now know that that is my primary problem it's from years and years of abusing my body with sugar with you know simple carbs just putting in you know white bread pasta pizza all these sorts of foods which I'm not saying they're bad or that you can't ever have them but for me where I made that my primary diet they made me sick I got fatter and fatter following the government protocols for low fat and getting the right number of carbs and all this business I gained more and more and more weight and I was hungry all the time but now I now know that many of the things that I feel and if you look at my shape and all the belly fat that I have I have insulin resistance and I talk I'll link to a video of dr. Berg's that talks about insulin resistance if you don't know what that is you can get enlightened it's really not a complicated issue it's just a matter of eating too much sugar and that's what I was doing for years and years and that's what I'm trying to correct now with fasting because fasting is the cure to insulin resistance and I expect talking about that belly fat that spare tire that I still have that extra 30 pounds perhaps that I still am carrying around I don't expect that to go as easily as the last 70 day but I do have a plan I'm eating ketogenic now so I'm eating a high-fat diet in an attempt to deal with that insulin resistance and get it back to where it needs to be you know in a normal in a normal range but all of this all this that I've learned my higher quality of life and everything that I've learned about myself along the way has come about as a result of alternate day fasting if you liked anything in this video this is what I wanted to share with you today if you liked anything in this video please give me a thumbs up if you'd like to follow the journey of this last 30 pounds and the things that I keep learning as I adjust and as I move and as I you know approach this thing with a learning attitude and growing knowledge subscribe to the channel it's real simple and if you know of anybody who's struggling the way I was who's not real hot own exercise or doesn't have time but who needs to do something for their health who needs an intervention of some kind and would be encouraged by a testimonial here because that's all I do is give you my story I don't say that you should do this or or make a lot of comments on on you know particular diets or things like that I really think that this is something where there needs to be tweaked egde because we're all individuals but if but all of us as individuals need encourage so if you know if someone who'd be encouraged by this share this video with them share the channel with them I appreciate it you guys eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we fast see you next time

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Length: 22min 21sec (1341 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 15 2017