Dharmesh Topiwala
Intermittent Fasting Stories
Gin Stephens
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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In this episode of Intermittent Fasting Stories, Gin talks to Dharmesh Topiwala, who lives in Raleigh, NC.
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Dharmesh is a software engineer, and he is originally from India. His family moved to the US in 1992, and Dharmesh shares that this was when he began to gain weight. In India, he was very active. But after moving, he "lost all of his friends, and lost all of his activity." He found himself turning to food for comfort. Dharmesh remembers that he "fell in love with Doritos." When his weight climbed to 300 pounds in 1998, he decided to do something about it. This began many years of yo-yo dieting for Dharmesh. He followed extreme calorie restriction and exercised. He took diet pills and tried low carb, and eventually lost 50 pounds. But whenever he stopped restricting calories or exercising, the weight would pile back on.
By 2018, Dharmesh gave up, deciding he would be 300 pounds for the rest of his life. He shares: "I invested in being this size," and bought all new clothes that fit. At this point, he was wearing a size 44 pants. In July of 2019, Dharmesh came across intermittent fasting through an app on his phone. He researched everything that he could about IF, and started with 16:8. The weight fell off quickly! He easily transitioned to 18:6, then 20:4. He currently follows 22:2. Dharmesh has lost 90 pounds and is now wearing a size 34 pants. The Delay, Don't Deny facebook group has been a huge support in his IF journey.
The advice Dharmesh would give to new IFers: "Take a lot of pictures. IF is not a wagon, it's a path. Don't punish yourself. It is day to day. Deciding to change your life is the hardest decision you'll make, and you've already won!"
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| 0:00.0 | Are you ready to take your intermittent fasting lifestyle to the next level? |
| 0:06.9 | There's nothing better than community to help with that. |
| 0:10.1 | In the delay, don't deny community we all embrace the clean fast and there's just the |
| 0:14.1 | right support for you as you live your intermittent fasting lifestyle. |
| 0:18.6 | You can connect directly with me in the Ask Gen Group and I'll answer all of your questions |
| 0:23.3 | personally. |
| 0:24.6 | If you're new to intermittent fasting or recommitting to the intermittent fasting lifestyle, join |
| 0:29.3 | the 28 day fast start group. |
| 0:32.3 | After your fast start, join us for support in the first year group. |
| 0:36.8 | Need tips for long term maintenance? |
| 0:38.9 | We have a place for that. |
| 0:40.9 | There are many more useful spaces beyond these and you can interact in as many as you like. |
| 0:46.8 | Visit ginsteevens.com slash community to join us, an annual membership costs just over |
| 0:53.0 | a dollar a week when you do the math. |
| 0:55.7 | If you aren't ready to fully commit for a year, join for a month and you can cancel it |
| 0:59.7 | any time. |
| 1:01.3 | If you know you'll want to stay forever, we also have a lifetime membership option available. |
| 1:06.7 | IF is free. |
| 1:08.3 | You don't need to join our community to fast. |
| 1:11.1 | But if you're looking for support from a community of like-minded intermittent fasters, we are |
| 1:15.9 | here for you at ginsteevens.com slash community. |
| 1:20.1 | That's ginsteevens.com slash community. |
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