Dr. John Webb discusses his experience with intermittent fasting, which involves alternating periods of eating and fasting. He started by fasting overnight for 12 hours and gradually increased his fasts to 14-18 hours a few times per week. This helped improve his focus and energy and develop a healthier relationship with food. Through intermittent fasting from September to December, he lost 50 pounds, plateauing until doing a longer 48-hour fast that helped him lose another 20 pounds. He encourages trying different diets to find what works best for individual bodies and lifestyles.

1. DR. JOHN WEBB
M y I n t e r m i t t e n t F a s t i n g
E x p e r i e n c e
DrJohnWebb.org

2. There are new diet
trends popping up every
day. It’s hard to know
which one will truly
work for your body and
your lifestyle.
Intermittent fasting is
splitting your days or
weeks into eating and
fasting periods.

3. Fasting Options:
16/8 METHOD
Restricts your eating period to 8 hours throughout the day.
You end up skipping breakfast and only eating between 1-9
pm
EAT-STOP-EAT
Fasting for a 24 hour period once or twice a week.
5: 2 DIET
Consume 500 to 600 calories on two non-consecutives
days. You can eat regularly during the other 5 days.

4. Seeing all these diets popping up, you
can start to think to yourself, “What will
work for me?” I started with an
overnight 12-hour fast, usually 6 pm to
6 am. Then I would extend it to 14, 16,
or 18 hours every few days or after very
high calorie days.

5. I g e n e r a l l y a t e n o r m a l
m e a l s d u r i n g t h e d a y a n d
d i d n ’ t d o a n y m e a l p r e p .
A s t i m e w e n t o n , t h e
f a s t i n g w a s v e r y e a s y a n d
h a s n o w b e c o m e v e r y
n o r m a l f o r m e . M y f o c u s
a n d e n e r g y h a v e i m p r o v e d
a n d I h a v e a h e a l t h i e r
r e l a t i o n s h i p w i t h f o o d a n d
i t i s e a s i e r t o m a k e
h e a l t h y f o o d c h o i c e s .

6. When my schedule changes, I keep
my 12-hour fast, I just have to alter the
time of my first meal (breaking the
fast). I tried to keep my meals low
carb/paleo, but I wasn’t strict on this. I
didn’t have any particular cravings,
and if I did, I allowed myself to eat
whatever it was I wanted. This would
satisfy the craving. In 8 months, I’ve
only broken the 12-hours once, by
one hour.

7. Other than fasting, my day and meals
were very much like any other day
before I was fasting. I continue to have
anything I want, but always ensure I
stick with the fasting. My weight went
from 270 to 220 lbs from September to
December 31, then plateaued until mid-
March. I completed a 48-hour fast and
then since then, I’ve lost another 20 lbs.
I did start taking a daily vitamin, even
though I was eating full meals. This was
just to make sure I was in a peak state
physiologically. Additionally, a coworker
(also a MD), started fasting at the same
time and we both lost almost the same
amount of weight from September to
December.

8. Diets work differently
for everyone. You can’t
expect to have the
same results as
someone else. I
wanted to share my
story to show
everyone that you can
certainly find
something that works
for you. If you are
looking to lose weight,
it may take a couple
attempts to find the
right diet but when
you find what works
the results will be
tremendous!
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