If you have been trying to lose weight for a long time and cant seem to do it, my experience might help you.

I really just want to put this out there to maybe help someone.

I was in good to great shape as a young guy, up til about 30. The change in my 30s was incredible. I went from 6 foot, 170 and pretty well muscled at 30...by 35 I weighed 242 and felt awful all the time. I had a child and life got stressful and I used eating as a crutch. I got away with eating whatever as a kid, age caught up to me quick.

Anyway, around 36 I started trying diets. I would lose 20 pounds, gain it back and a little more. I never looked really fat in clothes, so I kind of half assed all of the fad diets...ate paleo, keto, no carb, low carb, intermittent,fasting all of them. I always fell back into bad habits as results were so slow...losing two pounds a week and starving for most of the day is ok for someone with a few pounds to lose, but when you are trying to lose 65 pounds, it is not sustainable, for me at least.

Last year I was getting back on the horse to try again with low carb and intermittent fasting, when my research led me to prolonged fasting. The website went into diet failures, saying that we are so imbedded with eating food daily and eating three meals a day that we are brainwashed.

It sounded crazy, but the health benefits of prolonged fasting are amazing. Heals inflammation, can cure disease, clears skin conditions. But the thought of not eating for a whole day, even two or three, sounded awful.

I decided to try it and figured Id crash and burn. I did a 48 hour fast and followed the instructions, drinking black coffee, water, warm tea and calorie free drinks to stave off hunger. It was actually far easier than I thought it could be. I lost three pounds in two days...some of it was water certainly, but I could tell some had come off my waist! I ate a day normally, trying to eat healthy, and then did another 48 hour fast. I lost another two pounds...I quickly realized that this was the solution I had been looking for.

I began experimenting with how long I could fast, doing a seven day fast, and that was my breaking point....I dropped 18 pounds in those seven days. I set up my own fasting protocol at that point, and I am now at 168 with visible abs and looking 25 at 40. It took me a month and a half. Here is all I did.

I fasted with liquids for 72 hours. I then weighed myself. In tbose three days I would always lose 4 to 5 pounds. I then ate a meal...for one hour, whatever I wanted, for up to like 3000 calories. Id eat pizza, ice cream, steaks, all my favorite stuff, and actually get so full Id feel a bit sick and not really want to eat for the next few days. Id always put a pound or so back on the next day, then burn another 4 to 5 pounds during the fast. So effectively I burned around 8-10 pounds a WEEK, while also gorging on my favorite foods twice a week. I never fell off because I knew Id get WHATEVER I wanted to eat in my big meal.

I am now eating to simply maintain, and it is incredibly easy...I eat basically one meal a day of whatever I want, I just make sure and get some meat for the protein three or four times a week. Last night I had pizza and breadsticks and then chocolate, 2000 calories worth. I weighed before my meal today and had actually lost a quarter pound. I have a set point for my weight...if I get over 172, I fast for a few days and get it back down.

I did in 6 weeks what fitness mags tell you will take 6 months. For my workout, I do a 100 pushups, a 100 dips, 50 pullups, 100 bodyweight squats and a 100 crunches every day. Ill throw in a set of shoulder presses and bi curls some days. Nothing crazy and I am very strong and my body is young again!

I really just wanted to share because I kow many people struggle for years and it can be so incredibly painful to fail over and over...I did for years and this is so incredibly easy and simple.