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Intermittent fasting

Im male 33 years old , i begin intermittant fasting 4/20 on before 2 weeks and i was 131kg now im 124Kg but my body shape not change should i loosing my muscle mass , by the way my daily intake not more than 1000 kcal
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A 20:4 plan is one of the strictest programs to go with, so not everyone has the capacity to stick with that 4-hour window .... congratulations on your weight loss
Yes as stated above to change your body shape you need to exercise.
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Hello and welcome!!!  I admire your desire to lose weight. I want to as well.  An ongoing battle, right?  I have read a lot of good things about intermittent fasting.  I take it to mean, not eating for a period of specific time each day. So, stopping food intake at maybe 6 pm and going until 7 or 8 am the next day.  This has gotten a lot of interest from the medical community lately although it is not a new concept at all.  It does seem to have links to weight loss and overall, a positive influence on things like diabetes prevention, etc.  I read an article last week that stated simply giving up a snack in the evening of around 300 calories can help your weight move in a better direction.  That seems very manageable to me.  And I listened to a podcast that stated basically the same.  They said if you are hungry at night or in the evening to have a cup of decaffeinated hot tea.  I try that.  It does give me 'something' and I'm able to forego the snack.  (I've always been a snacker . . . never met a cheese cake at 3 am that I didn't want to get friendly with, sad to say).  Also, if you can start small and give up specific things that aren't adding to your nutrition, that can help.  An example would be chips.  That can be a food I mindlessly eat.  So, I can say "I'm giving up chips".  Then I either don't buy them although that with kids in the house and it's not just about MY diet, we will have them here.  I just don't eat them. Then you can move on to crackers or whatever processed food that you tend to eat.  Then you can give up sweets.  Etc.  Eliminate the problem foods starting with what's going to impact the most.  Soda pop is a good one to give up.  Eating fast food.  All those things that we KNOW are not good choices, eliminate if you can.  This will impact things.  Right?  It has to.  Then work on your meals being lean.  Lots of vegetables and fruits, Some fish, lean meat.  Whole grains.  

That's a lot. But you get the point.  Start small and build this into something that works for you.  Our weight is mostly a reflection of our diet. Exercise can definitely help though. If your doctor okays exercise, then even a brisk walk 5 times a week for 30 minutes will help if you start there.  And you can also, if doctor cleared to do so, can add weights into your week of activities.  
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Fasting is tricky.  Intermittent fasting originally meant, for example, not eating one day a week or one day a month.  But remember, when your stomach is empty, make sure you don't have certain digestive problems, and make sure you don't get them.  An empty stomach is a wonderful place for digestive juices to digest the wrong things, such as your stomach lining.  It can lead to reflux.  All these fads come with possible benefits and possible drawbacks.  If you need energy because you expend a lot of energy, you need food.  Eventually, no matter what you do, your metabolism will learn what you're doing and level off again, so it might not lead to that much weight loss.  Or it might.  Just make sure you eat enough to get the nutrients you need.  Make sure losing weight isn't done at the expense of health.  Make sure whatever you try suits your life -- if you want to build muscle, you need to eat protein.  It appears to be much more important what we eat than anything else.  There are those who argue for eating small meals throughout the day so you never have an empty stomach.  There are those who argue for fasting.  But the only long-term studies we have are of people who eat pretty regularly.  The rest is an experiment, so make sure you don't turn that experiment into a problem you didn't have before.  I knew a woman who fasted completely one day a week.  I can't say I noticed much of a difference, as she wasn't heavy to begin with, but she said it gave her more energy and kept weight off and allowed her to eat how she liked the rest of the week.  On the other hand, she was vegan already, and very educated about food -- she taught nutrition and cooking.  To me, she always lacked vigor and energy.  So who knows?
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First, intermittent fasting can mean a lot of things -- it doesn't say how often you're going without eating.  You also don't say if you're exercising.  You don't say what you do eat on the days you eat.  Without knowing these bits of data nobody can know what it is you're doing, how it's different from what you were doing before, why you're doing it, etc.  Keep in mind that fasting doesn't necessarily result in what you're looking for -- it's origin is in pursuit of spirituality, enlightenment, and cleansing, but has become a diet fad of late.  Does it work?  Is it healthy long-term?  Who knows?  But if you're losing muscle, you're not eating the way you need to, and you're probably not exercising.  If you fast too much, you're basically starving yourself on purpose, and while there are many reasons people have done this throughout history as mentioned above, building muscle tone wasn't one of the reasons.
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