Intermittent Fasting!!

Ataraxia · Nov 17, 2011

sammy555 said:
you look pretty damn lean in your avatar

ya i can get there! staying there is the problem! That was for a commercial and photo shoot... so i was very lean then... im probably at 12-13% right now... would love to sit at 8-9 year round...

Ataraxia · Nov 17, 2011

today has been a lot harder to make the fast than yesterday... two things different is i went from 9-1 yesterday and 10-2 today... i think once i wake up the shorter the easier... thoughts?
Also i did cardio this morning... so my metabolism is probably fired up! guess it would be better to do post WO cardio....

sammy555 · Nov 18, 2011

ValleyAA said:
today has been a lot harder to make the fast than yesterday... two things different is i went from 9-1 yesterday and 10-2 today... i think once i wake up the shorter the easier... thoughts?
Also i did cardio this morning... so my metabolism is probably fired up! guess it would be better to do post WO cardio....

I think it's easier mentally if uou have less houts to go when you wake up. When i was doing 24 hour fasts 8-8 was quite hard, 3-3 was a piece of piss. Most of it is in the mind, the hunger goes when you stop thinking about it. Id put a few hours in on the ps3 if i had to take my mind off it. I did a lot of it on work days too as your not thinking about it. I found 2 24 hours a week a lot easier then 16 hours ever day for some reason. Probably yhe mental break 5 days a week

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Bionic · Nov 18, 2011

ValleyAA said:
today has been a lot harder to make the fast than yesterday... two things different is i went from 9-1 yesterday and 10-2 today... i think once i wake up the shorter the easier... thoughts?
Also i did cardio this morning... so my metabolism is probably fired up! guess it would be better to do post WO cardio....

There have been studies that show that you never get used to fasting. It never gets easier; you've gotta just suck it up.

Ataraxia · Nov 18, 2011

Bionic said:
There have been studies that show that you never get used to fasting. It never gets easier; you've gotta just suck it up.

well as i have been reading the forums and peoples reviews they seem to think the opposite is true... you do get used to it... i guess i will let you know in a week or so... it really only sucks for like the last hour or two of the fast.... and the next 8 hours are bliss over huge meals... I'm hoping this works well for me!!

Cerberus777 · Nov 18, 2011

For the past 2 days I moved my feed time to 6-2 from 8-3makes all the difference, I would say I have gotten use to it.

ScottMcD1 · Nov 18, 2011

I am on my phone in a rush otherwise I'd link it but a pretty good review of some popular IF protocols can be found if you google "berardi" and "intermittent fasting". It's a free PDF

aussiebulldog · Nov 18, 2011

ScottMcD1 said:
I am on my phone in a rush otherwise I'd link it but a pretty good review of some popular IF protocols can be found if you google "berardi" and "intermittent fasting". It's a free PDF

Intermittent Fasting E-Book | Dr. John M.Berardi | Precision Nutrition

Ataraxia · Nov 18, 2011

awesome thanks guys!!
Today is a rest day and my feeding window was bumped up an hour so fasted last night from 9 to today at just after 1.... no problem.. if it is this easy everyday this could very well be my new lifestyle...
Mentally it trips me out because yesterday i had a meal of about 550 cal around 2 worked out around 5:30 and then consumed around 2,000 calories in like 2 hours! lol...
I mean i love it, i love pigging out, that's why i was a fat kid... but logically it seems so wrong, but it feels so right...
I hope this is it!