I had horrible acid reflux to the point where I could barely swallow food unless it was chewed to a pulp, because my throat was so inflamed and swollen almost shut. Almost choking to death a couple times scared the hell out me.
10 months ago I switched to one meal a day. I eat A LOT in a two hour window, mid-day, then fast for 22 hours. In addition to losing 50 pounds in under four months, and becoming extremely fit, my acid reflux completely disappeared, and my throat healed and returned to normal.
It takes some time to adjust to 16-hour fasting. But once you've trained your body to not expect food constantly, it gets easier and easier to add another hour onto the fasting length until you've slowly upped it to 22 hours of fasting. 22-hours really isn't bad if you take it in slow increments.
14-hours is about when your body runs out of food in digestion mode and switches over to starvation mode. Once in starvation mode, the body recycles itself to keep going (meaning breaking down bad tissues to reuse). The reason they recommend 16-hours is because it gives you 2-hours a day of turbo breaking down of bad tissue. The 14-hour hump is what is hard to overcome, but once you overcome it, it gets easier and easier.
I had horrible acid reflux to the point where I could barely swallow food unless it was chewed to a pulp, because my throat was so inflamed and swollen almost shut. Almost choking to death a couple times scared the hell out me.
10 months ago I switched to one meal a day. I eat A LOT in a two hour window, mid-day, then fast for 22 hours. In addition to losing 50 pounds in under four months, and becoming extremely fit, my acid reflux completely disappeared, and my throat healed and returned to normal.
Wow. That's great. If things get worse I may try that, although fasting for 22 hours seems daunting. Thanks for sharing.
It takes some time to adjust to 16-hour fasting. But once you've trained your body to not expect food constantly, it gets easier and easier to add another hour onto the fasting length until you've slowly upped it to 22 hours of fasting. 22-hours really isn't bad if you take it in slow increments.
Thanks. I may try to increase the fast time once I adjust to my current routine. I still find I'm hungry about 14 hours into the fast.
14-hours is about when your body runs out of food in digestion mode and switches over to starvation mode. Once in starvation mode, the body recycles itself to keep going (meaning breaking down bad tissues to reuse). The reason they recommend 16-hours is because it gives you 2-hours a day of turbo breaking down of bad tissue. The 14-hour hump is what is hard to overcome, but once you overcome it, it gets easier and easier.
Congrats on healing yourself. I LOVE your name. :)