I Did Intermittent Fasting For Almost 4 Years — Here's Why I Stopped and Actually Lost Weight 66 Shares Trigger warning: The following story discusses eating disorders and disordered eating behavior. At the beginning of my four-year intermittent fasting (IF) journey, I was experiencing so many health benefits such as decreased bloating, improved mental clarity and sleep, and I was able to lose the baby weight I'd been holding on to for four years. It was going so well in the beginning that I thought I'd do IF for the rest of my life. But as I slowly started to try more restrictive methods of IF to reach my weight-loss goals, it started to not work, and I was actually