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How do you start?

I mean my title basically says it all. I need to lose a lot of weight. I’d eventually like to get gastric sleeve or gastric bypass surgery but I have to lose weight (100+- pounds) before I can ever have a consult with a surgeon about the possibility of surgery. His office told me this.

What would be some recommendations to start the fasting?

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Surgery forces you to eat less. That’s it. You can do that on your own without being cut up.

  1. Start by replacing processed foods with REAL foods. Get off anything with sugar or flour. Eat meat, eggs, dairy, fruits, veggies, nuts. When you have a sweet craving (because you will go through withdrawal) eat whole fruit. The craving WILL go away if you refuse to give in!
  2. Get rid of all carbonated drinks and all juices. If you are on caffeinated soda, wean down a bit each day to avoid withdrawal headaches. Drink water, water, and more water. Black coffee and tea are ok. NO sugary drinks.
  3. After you completed the above… start pushing breakfast a little later. If you eat at 7am, wait until 8am. When you are comfortable with that 8am, then don’t eat until 9am. Repeat until breakfast is so late, that your first meal is actually at lunch. Now you are intermittent fasting with 2 meals per day.
  4. I bet at this point, you’ll start to realize you don’t need surgery to achieve your goals! Your hunger will be controlled in a way you cannot even imagine right now.
  5. Once you are very comfortable eating 2 meals per day, try going for one meal per day.
  6. Work your way up to whatever length of fasting you desire.

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I would like to suggest three books I read to get me started and motivated.

The books are:

The Obesity Code by Jason Fung

The Complete Guide to Fasting By Jason Fung and Jimmy Moore.

Delay, Don’t Deny - Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle by Gin Stephens

I go back to these books often to help with various aspects of fasting and hunger. Simply cutting everything out will make you miserable. Its better to intermittent fast and try to eat healthy most of the time and realistically eat what you want some of the time.

I have lost 28 so far and kept it off. I am on track to lose another 40 lbs in the coming months.

Feel free to message me if you want, I will help you out best I can with resources. Hope this helps, all the best.

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