NIGEL, DEAL WITH THESE GODDAMN HIPPIES.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Alternate-day "fasting" (you eat 500-700 calories on a down day) seems to help with immune response.
It also strips weight off like nobody's business, and seems to be fairly safe for the majority of people...(Hypoglycemics or diabetics, probably not...)
I like it because it means I only have to be miserable every other day, instead of every day.

That master cleanse crap? a ten-day fast isn't safe.

I always do some kind of juice fast or raw food diet for a couple weeks every spring, mostly just to reset any bad habits I've picked up over the winter and reassess my diet.

There's no "cleansing" or "detoxing" like that a healthy body can do when you're feeding it wholesome foods and getting plenty of exercise, though. Most people just don't eat enough fiber.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

Personally I have switched to a mostly raw/unsalted nut and fruit-based diet on account of I am not allowed to eat any sodium. A single god damn french fry has a greater than zero chance of causing a stroke. Which sucks because all the best foods are neither fruit nor nuts.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Personally I have switched to a mostly raw/unsalted nut and fruit-based diet on account of I am not allowed to eat any sodium. A single god damn french fry has a greater than zero chance of causing a stroke. Which sucks because all the best foods are neither fruit nor nuts.

Yeah, I'm hypertensive and I just stepped on a scale last night and I have GAINED FIVE POUNDS since I started mad bicycling everywhere. Which means that I now need to lose TWENTY pounds. So now I'm knuckling down on the diet too.

[Doktor Howl]

I eat a salad a day.  The results in the morning are all the "detox" I need.  I'm already getting complaints from the city...And These People want me to do MORE?

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Personally I have switched to a mostly raw/unsalted nut and fruit-based diet on account of I am not allowed to eat any sodium. A single god damn french fry has a greater than zero chance of causing a stroke. Which sucks because all the best foods are neither fruit nor nuts.

Yeah, I'm hypertensive and I just stepped on a scale last night and I have GAINED FIVE POUNDS since I started mad bicycling everywhere. Which means that I now need to lose TWENTY pounds. So now I'm knuckling down on the diet too.

Some of it might be muscle if you're mad biking. Nothing wrong with muscle.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

l alternate between just beans a few days a week and anything I damn please the rest of the time. Fasting only when I'm really, really broke. I don't feel like fasting cleanses anything, there's nothing to push the old stuff OUT.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

Personally I have switched to a mostly raw/unsalted nut and fruit-based diet on account of I am not allowed to eat any sodium. A single god damn french fry has a greater than zero chance of causing a stroke. Which sucks because all the best foods are neither fruit nor nuts.

Yeah, I'm hypertensive and I just stepped on a scale last night and I have GAINED FIVE POUNDS since I started mad bicycling everywhere. Which means that I now need to lose TWENTY pounds. So now I'm knuckling down on the diet too.

I get 99% less exercise than I should get, and I can make excuses but the main reason is I just don't feel like putting that much effort into it. Of course, this approach does little for the hypertension, or my weight, which is apparently "okay" but I'm not personally happy with it. Blah.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Personally I have switched to a mostly raw/unsalted nut and fruit-based diet on account of I am not allowed to eat any sodium. A single god damn french fry has a greater than zero chance of causing a stroke. Which sucks because all the best foods are neither fruit nor nuts.

Yeah, I'm hypertensive and I just stepped on a scale last night and I have GAINED FIVE POUNDS since I started mad bicycling everywhere. Which means that I now need to lose TWENTY pounds. So now I'm knuckling down on the diet too.

Some of it might be muscle if you're mad biking. Nothing wrong with muscle.

It might all be muscle, I put on muscle bulk like a mad bastard. I'm like, genetically programmed to be a bodybuilder or something.  But I'm still a lot fatter/unhealthier than I want to be, and it has to go. The good news is that now that my tumor-riddled baby chamber is gone and I'm healed from surgery, I feel ready to fucking the world.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Personally I have switched to a mostly raw/unsalted nut and fruit-based diet on account of I am not allowed to eat any sodium. A single god damn french fry has a greater than zero chance of causing a stroke. Which sucks because all the best foods are neither fruit nor nuts.

Yeah, I'm hypertensive and I just stepped on a scale last night and I have GAINED FIVE POUNDS since I started mad bicycling everywhere. Which means that I now need to lose TWENTY pounds. So now I'm knuckling down on the diet too.

Some of it might be muscle if you're mad biking. Nothing wrong with muscle.

It might all be muscle, I put on muscle bulk like a mad bastard. I'm like, genetically programmed to be a bodybuilder or something.  But I'm still a lot fatter/unhealthier than I want to be, and it has to go. The good news is that now that my tumor-riddled baby chamber is gone and I'm healed from surgery, I feel ready to fucking the world.

FUCKING THE WORLD, FUCK YES

[Doktor Howl]

Just got done at the doctor's office.  Did a huge range of tests on me, including the body fat thing where they chuck you in a thing of water.

Since last time (3 months ago), I have lost 25 pounds of fat and gained 10 pounds of muscle, near as they can tell.

Blood pressure:  Normal
Pulse rate:  Normal (high end, but still in tolerance).
Bloodwork:  2 weeks before I know.

From size 40 jeans to comfy size 36, and I feel fucking great.  20 more pounds of fat and 2" more off the waistline, and I'm at goal.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Just got done at the doctor's office.  Did a huge range of tests on me, including the body fat thing where they chuck you in a thing of water.

Since last time (3 months ago), I have lost 25 pounds of fat and gained 10 pounds of muscle, near as they can tell.

Blood pressure:  Normal
Pulse rate:  Normal (high end, but still in tolerance).
Bloodwork:  2 weeks before I know.

From size 40 jeans to comfy size 36, and I feel fucking great.  20 more pounds of fat and 2" more off the waistline, and I'm at goal.

Goddamn Dok, that's awesome!

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Dok knows his stuff on How Not To Be A Fat Bastard.

WIN.