u/FadedFrost1

Hi all, I joined reddit about a year ago by a friend’s recommendation, rarely use it but I’ve lately been pondering about a possibility.

I’ve taught English globally (online) for 7-8 years, both for free and via paid training programs, I speak 15 accents (4 native), write stories and poems with passion.

At the moment I’ve got some free time, so I’d like to offer online courses again, but before I head there I wanted to ask the avid users of this platform

Do people actually look for tutors here or is most of the community already fluent?

Thanks.

Height : 183cm

Weight : 144.5kg peak -> 132.5 -> 89kg -> 120kg (current)

Activity level : 1-2h of working out (cardio, calisthenics, lifting weights) 2-3 days a week

Total hours fasted: 20,000 or more (24 mostly, 50h once a week, 72h after cheat day, 100h once)

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Most of my life, I always ate everything that came to my way, mostly high carb food, sugars, sweets, etc. As culturally, we’re not wired in a way to be self-conscious of our health or our bodies, we’re just programmed to keep consuming more and more in the guise of “eat everything but eat moderate”, I grew up with 0 sense of what a real diet really means, I peaked out to 144.5 kg, until one day in September 2023 (i was 132.5kg here, i lost 10-13 kg somehow from 144.5-132.5 prior) my friend told me a very cost-effective method which he tried and got very good results from and is still happy to this day, he recommended me to strictly adhere myself to ketogenic diet, low-carb diet, and intermittent fasting, he said that if I only did keto and low-carb, it would take one or two years for me to get to my target weight and all my life, I tried every type of diet, every type of cardio and exercise I thought was useful, but still nothing, I wanted to get rid of this stubborn belly, so I decided to do 50 hour fasting once every week coupled with OMAD (one meal a day) 23-24 hours of fasting, and no fasts on friday and Saturday, (eating normally and sometimes at full daily caloric intake or a slight surplus) everything went well. There were some weeks where I did not lose any weight, I had constant plateaus, but I overcame them all and eventually in 2024 September or October I reached the lowest weight (87.9kg) I ever did in my life and I couldn’t believe that day if that was real or it was just a dream, I thank God dearly for that, but I still had that stubborn belly even at that weight, so I kept persisting in the regimen, but things suddenly took a dark turn, since 2025 January to this day, I went from 87 -> 120.

No matter what I tried it didn’t work, every month, I used to weigh in and see my weight increase no matter how hard I tried, I finally started giving up and used to have some cheap days here and there maybe a couple of days every 3 to 4 months and that is it and I always used to make up for it by a prolonged fasts and getting back on regimen with strict adherence, just to give you an example, before this year’s April started I said to myself, I will try to do one aggressive regimen for the last time to confirm if I’m dreaming or in a delusion or if there’s something really fkd up in my body, so I decided to do 2-50h fasts hour fasts every single week with regular omads, just for this one month, and weigh in at the end of the month, hoping to see a decrease because last month it showed I was 117, and guess what, instead of any decrease I see 120.

In this journey, I only mostly followed my friend and two other people, Dr Eric Berg and Sean Nalewanyj. My daily caloric intake was mostly 1800 initially, then I reduced it to 1600, then for one or two months (feb-april 2024 i think) I reduced it to 1100 to 1300 cal. Apart from that I’ve always been drinking 0 cal sodas (that dont have any calories, or maltodextrin or dextrose. I tracked everything with high precision on an everyday basis so much so that family, friends and relatives woule hate when I always rejected high carb foods if offered, so I kindly do not want any CICO fanatics telling me that I did not manage or track my calories and I did not see the food and bla this bla that bullshit.

I did blood tests a year ago and I do not have any hyperthyroidism, just high cholesterol, which is common in keto ppl.

I feel bad when I see other people doing the most minimal amount of effort and getting desired goal weight in a year or less but I ignore that feeling.

I feel hopeless and sad that all my endeavors, fasting 50h hundreds of times, etc have just been washed away, what to do? Idk anymore.

........................................................

Thanks for reading.

Height : 183cm

Weight : 144.5kg peak -> 132.5 -> 89kg -> 120kg (current)

Activity level : 1-2h of working out (cardio, calisthenics, lifting weights) 2-3 days a week

Total hours fasted: 20,000 or more (24 mostly, 50h once a week, 72h after cheat day, 100h once)

........................................................

Most of my life, I always ate everything that came to my way, mostly high carb food, sugars, sweets, etc. As culturally, we’re not wired in a way to be self-conscious of our health or our bodies, we’re just programmed to keep consuming more and more in the guise of “eat everything but eat moderate”, I grew up with 0 sense of what a real diet really means, I peaked out to 144.5 kg, until one day in September 2023 (i was 132.5kg here, i lost 10-13 kg somehow from 144.5-132.5 prior) my friend told me a very cost-effective method which he tried and got very good results from and is still happy to this day, he recommended me to strictly adhere myself to ketogenic diet, low-carb diet, and intermittent fasting, he said that if I only did keto and low-carb, it would take one or two years for me to get to my target weight and all my life, I tried every type of diet, every type of cardio and exercise I thought was useful, but still nothing, I wanted to get rid of this stubborn belly, so I decided to do 50 hour fasting once every week coupled with OMAD (one meal a day) 23-24 hours of fasting, and no fasts on friday and Saturday, (eating normally and sometimes at full daily caloric intake or a slight surplus) everything went well. There were some weeks where I did not lose any weight, I had constant plateaus, but I overcame them all and eventually in 2024 September or October I reached the lowest weight (87.9kg) I ever did in my life and I couldn’t believe that day if that was real or it was just a dream, I thank God dearly for that, but I still had that stubborn belly even at that weight, so I kept persisting in the regimen, but things suddenly took a dark turn, since 2025 January to this day, I went from 87 -> 120.

No matter what I tried it didn’t work, every month, I used to weigh in and see my weight increase no matter how hard I tried, I finally started giving up and used to have some cheap days here and there maybe a couple of days every 3 to 4 months and that is it and I always used to make up for it by a prolonged fasts and getting back on regimen with strict adherence, just to give you an example, before this year’s April started I said to myself, I will try to do one aggressive regimen for the last time to confirm if I’m dreaming or in a delusion or if there’s something really fkd up in my body, so I decided to do 2-50h fasts hour fasts every single week with regular omads, just for this one month, and weigh in at the end of the month, hoping to see a decrease because last month it showed I was 117, and guess what, instead of any decrease I see 120.

In this journey, I only mostly followed my friend and two other people, Dr Eric Berg and Sean Nalewanyj. My daily caloric intake was mostly 1800 initially, then I reduced it to 1600, then for one or two months (feb-april 2024 i think) I reduced it to 1100 to 1300 cal. Apart from that I’ve always been drinking 0 cal sodas (that dont have any calories, or maltodextrin or dextrose. I tracked everything with high precision on an everyday basis so much so that family, friends and relatives woule hate when I always rejected high carb foods if offered, so I kindly do not want any CICO fanatics telling me that I did not manage or track my calories and I did not see the food and bla this bla that bullshit.

I did blood tests a year ago and I do not have any hyperthyroidism, just high cholesterol, which is common in keto ppl.

I feel bad when I see other people doing the most minimal amount of effort and getting desired goal weight in a year or less but I ignore that feeling.

I feel hopeless and sad that all my endeavors, fasting 50h hundreds of times, etc have just been washed away, what to do? Idk anymore.

........................................................

Thanks for reading.