Any tips on getting other people on board with your fasting?

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I’m open about it with everyone, family, friends, anyone. If they try to tell me it’s not healthy, I spout some of what Ive learned about it and also tell them about the two minor injuries that were plaguing me for almost a year that suddenly healed while in the middle of rolling 72s and one 96. I tell them how much extra energy I have, so much so that Im still wired when I go to bed even when I wear my glasses that block blue light. I tell them that if one looks at our ancestral feeding patterns, we didn’t have food available 24/7 and that fasting was a natural part of life and that we evolved to cope with it. And if they still don’t get it, well, that’s on them and I just keep being me. I have coworkers who mock me about it “Here comes Mike with his Snake Juice! haha” I simply don’t care. People are afraid of what they don’t understand. I also got crap from my wife (an RN who eats SAD and still thinks bad carbs are a healthy part of nutrition*) and after a while she just accepted that this is what I’m doing. She now asks me “Are you eating today?” When I say “no”, she just continues on with her meal plans and doesn’t give me crap, but she still doesn’t quite believe because if I mention it to others in front of her she’ll chime in with something dismissive like “It’s just an extreme way to lose weight fast.” And I will take that opportunity to explain the other benefits as well. But again, it comes down to I don’t care what other people think about my path to health. I’m just going to keep going and the results will speak for themselves.

* I went paleo years ago for about 2 years. In the beginning she came to me and told me she was worried because I was giving up “a very important food group”… grains. SMH!

EDIT: I LOVE to see the looks on people’s faces when I tell them I haven’t eaten anything in 3 days. I’ll even bring up the subject just for that reaction. ;)

EDIT 2: When ppl ask about how I can survive on zero calories, I just smile, grab my gut, and tell them I have roughly 400,000 calories just waiting to be burned.

EDIT 3: Forgot to add that I also tell them that my physician doesn’t have a problem with it and as long as the electrolyte issue is addressed there is no problem.

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Well you’ve already used the word “fasting” with your boyfriend, so you are now fighting an uphill battle.

There’s really not much you can do at this point.

You can try to explain that regular dieting is in fact the thing the screws up metabolisms and that’s why long-term weightloss almost always fails. That time restriction makes way more logical sense than restricting meal size. But his mind is likely set.

It’s like trying to convince a flat earther. There’s no point. Just accept his criticism as agree to disagree and do your best to avoid convos on it.

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