Been 4 days since I quit and other stims like caffeine as well. Plus, fighting off a summer cold. Still getting over the skipping beats. I've only been using a week on my hikes but damn. If it took 2 weeks, I look forward to that. All this conglomerated with my anxiety and started triggering these I believe. The palps seem to be going down and decreasing, every now and then increasing in intensity. But, it could be that I am also fighting a gnarly cold as well. Sometimes my breathing and position can trigger them. Exercise, surprisingly helps alleviate it. Not completely but enough. After this, never again. Been working on trying to get myself healthy since I'm pushing 40. It's not like I regularly partake of vices but I can have a history of being habitual. Might be my body's way of keeping me on the right path.

I get that, but the problem I was having was that I tried to achieve that balance in the past, and it did nothing. I see people scarf down entire pizzas and bags of chips, maintaining what looks healthy, and I feel guilty just having one can of soda on a blue moon. I ate complex carbs like pasta. I put in the effort at the gym, but it was like my body has been trying to fight my efforts to lose weight. I did the keto route to try and jumpstart it, and it worked. Then I got bogged with a job and terrible work hours, and it ate into my time. The stress accumulated as well. Now, I have more free time, and I plan to at least establish a new baseline but slowly. I'm doing dirty keto, meaning I'm just having a minimal to decent amount of carbs on any guven day. Weekends are when I do let myself enjoy myself within reason.

Gonna have to do my research on the shakes then. In the past, they would shoot through me in a few hours. Casein being milk proteins might not be friendly, but it could be attributed to any lactose present. Might have to invest in lactase pills to help if it gets to that point.

After sleeping on it and considering the amount of time I have devoted to hiking, I have decided to switch gears and incorporate resistance training and weight lifting again as every other day to hiking. I will attempt to consume more protein. I would like to go the protein shake route but it messes with my stomach. Have you any suggestions? Whey, casein, plant-based? I feel like casein is my best bet as it digests more slowly, helping to regulate digestion and providing me with slow-release proteins for the day.

Almost 20 in 4 weeks. Although, to be fair, much of it is water initially, and I am currently plateauing.

Pretty much what I was aiming for.

Been focusing on having a high veggie and protein diet. Staying away from carbs as best as I can. The fasting is a benefit to help reset my system, autophagy to clear out all the bad from the body, and to promote lipolysis for a fat-adapted state like when I did keto. Once I hit my target weight, I am gonna try to focus on getting more veggies and protein in my diet. I feel that would definitely help me in the long run.

Went from 260 to 244 as we speak in almost 4 weeks. Trying to get down to 220 or lower. I do 8 miles x5 per week. I rest on weekends.

My goal was pretty much to do the whole summer and even fall. I just wanna get back to a healthy weight by those times.

So, roughly 6 months?

You seem to understand me the most. All this conflicting knowledge I get about eating more and counting calories did not help. Humans used to be hunter-foragers. They did not have the luxury of having readily prepared and scheduled meal times. I always thought breakfast was a gimmick and only nice to have now and then or if you were preparing for a busy day. Some people have breakfast just to have it because of programming. I even avoid a lot of junk foods now when they have all this nasty shit in it. Why does my Cooler Ranch Doritos need red dye 40 and blue 1? They are not even those colors and I'm not some child who needs to be enticed by pretty food. I want it to taste and feel good. That's why I look towards growing my own stuff, sourcing halal, and importing since I can't trust this scumbag country and its FDA to prohibit substances in our food banned everywhere else in the world.

I just wish I knew why I was getting the opposite logic of what is to be expected.

I get what you are saying, but I have only so much time in my day that I can't do both. I stuck with hiking to up my cardio and it was getting me progress. And I agree that I should've been losing, but I was visibly retaining fat. I was simply just bigger with added muscles. And, since Ramadan, despite the limited eating, my weight was going up. I don't splurge like people think. Often times, I'd have dinner in the late afternoon or evening and go to bed. My body never made sense when it came to this. The only thing I knew helped in the past was keto. This time, I'm adding fasting and exercise as additional benefits. I've addressed this in the past with my MD showing normal test results. However, recently, it feels like I've been falling apart overnight and getting back into this helps.

I just wanted to focus on weight loss first. I spend most of my day hiking. Now that I've been at it for about a month, I'm gonna try to switch weeks off. One week hiking, one week weightlifting, and repeat. I hate doing cardio in the gym, and I get the bonus of walking my dog. I try to cram as much fitness as possible in my busy schedule. Something is better than nothing. Before hiking, I was doing a bit of lifting with results. The fat wouldn't come off, though. So, ultimately, the nuclear option.

Good advice. Been trying to keep the protein up.

How long did you maintain this routine?

I considered that, but it wasn't damn near 20 lbs. of it. If it were, for how much I used to work out, I should be like Ronnie Coleman. After doing all this, the weight was just coming off, and people said I looked thinner, so I know it wasn't muscle.

I agree to an extent. Advice can be given, and it is up to me to do the research. I knew people who went to specialists to leave with more questions and no results. Some even pass judgment. One person I know is overweight but hardly eats anything and explains this to her specialist. I know for a fact she is not a big eater and not sneaking snacks on the side. Outside of taking meds and supplements, it doesn't hurt to gain perspective from others who have been through this themselves. I honestly think nowadays food is more dense then they advertise and whatever additives are included cause issues like inflammation and water and weight retention.

Plus, these days, insurance, money, and scheduling does not make this feasible. It took her 3 months to get a date and some weight loss programs recommended by her specialists she wanted to apply to denied her. So, lost time can mean lost progress.

Precisely. Doctors provide good insight and foundational knowledge, but often times, each person is unique, and not everyone responds to the same treatment. These are why communities and outreach groups exist, to share personal experiences that could help. Many times, research is lacking to support both sides, and anecdotes provide the best approaches too as a starter to further researching things that are not normally talked about. Could weight gain be diet, cortisol, genetics, environmental factors, muscle, etc.? Many times, it is not discussed as a common factor and someone might have that one obscure answer that could yield a eureka. Some people get results better with diets, some with exercise, some with more sleep, some changing a medication regimen. One thing I want to avoid is medications. I refuse to do ozempic because no one knows the long-term effects and the fat comes off in an unhealthy way. At least, with my routine, my body will establish its own routine and utilize its own resources without a non-nascient factor.

I did and it's the same spiel. "Diet and exercise." I'm more interested in tried and true holistic approaches from people who have done so. It's more-or-less to keep me motivated if I see how others stack up.

Ironically, the issue that was giving me the most trouble was also what I've been trying to focus on. I wouldn't be eating excessively. Heck, on some days, it was an achievement to meet my daily calorie requirements. So, I was absolutely floored when I decided to check my weight after a month of fasting and a month and a half of liberal, nothing really crazy, same as now except a midday snack or lunch every so often, of eating to see I gained a substantial amount of weight. I felt great a put myself and it didn't look it at all. In fact, prior to Ramadan, I was weightlifting 2 to 3 times a week. It made no sense and it pissed me off. I didn't gain 15 lbs. of muscle like that. So, I basically am punishing my body and teaching it who is actually in charge.

I think a majority of it was water. It always goes first and we've had quite a few hot days. Carrying a gallon of water with me. Some days I go to bed and wake up having gained weight somehow right after waking up or having lost 5 to 7 whole pounds. My body is just fucking weird.

Thanks.

I'm pretty used to this. It's no different than when I did Ramadan not too long ago. My weight right now seems to be plateauing and I don't feel any issues relating to hunger or energy. I tried the slow route with have balanced meals but no dice. I'm just trying to get my body to start burning all that stubborn fat I carry around and get into a fat-adapted state. I'm pretty active and found it illogical that I was even gaining weight despite counting calories and being active beforehand. I tried the logical and steady route and it yielded no results. In fact, it yielded negative results. If it has to be that way then so be it. Drastic times called for drastic measures. Whatever energy my body needs can be acquired from the stored fat I'm carrying around. 

I'm also doing the fasts for autophagy and detox as well. It is to my understanding eating often can carry negative effects to the body and I've been trying to reset my gut.

I'm in healthcare. Also, didn't require a lot of thinking. You just look at suffixes.

-um is -a Phylum is phyla, forum is fora  

-ex is -ices Index is Indices, vortex is vortices  

-is is -es Nemesis is nemeses, thesis is theses. 

Penis is just one word derived from latin meaning tail. It depends on word structure and the liberties of an evolving language. Rolodex can be rolodices but it is commonly referred to rolodexes probably because it is a portmanteau of rolling index and thus not a singular word.