Intermittent fasting

MickyCrispDipper

Hey guys

I'm going to give intermittent fasting ago, I'm currently on a cut, with a deficit my daily calories are 2300 a day, what I'd like to know is, when doing IF do I still eat the same 2300 but just in the non fasting period (I'm doing 16 hours fasted 8 hours fed??

Also I gym every other day after breakfast so now I'd be lifting fasting and break the fast each day with post workout food, is this wise, has anyone done this??

malibu927

Yes, you'd be eating the same number of calories

MickyCrispDipper

So bigger meals in a shorter amount of space right? Secondly I know this might be obvious but realistically I could eat slightly worse food due being bigger portions, as long as my calls don't go over??

jjpptt2

What do portion sizes have to do with "quality" of food?

But yes, if your cals are where they should be, then a little junk food shouldn't matter.

MickyCrispDipper

Because if you can have a bigger portion of fat then surely I could have a pizza instead of chicken salad, or do I have to keep food clean

jjpptt2

michaelgazzard wrote: »

Because if you can have a bigger portion of fat then surely I could have a pizza instead of chicken salad, or do I have to keep food clean

Regardless, you can eat whatever you want as long as your cals are in check. It doesn't matter if you eat all you cals in 1 meal or in 5 meals. If the fat comes from eggs at 8am or salad dressing at noon or pizza at 7pm, it's still fat.

I guess larger meals could give you more flexibility in what you eat, if you aren't trying to keep an entire "meal" to something like 400 calories... but that's not about the food (clean or whatever else), that's about how you choose to distribute calories.

MickyCrispDipper

Ok, forgive all the questions I'm fairly new to this. I've read that the fat should be dietary fat i.e. Nuts avacado olive oil, so if for example I had my daily calls in biscuits I'd still lose weight?

jjpptt2

Would you still lose weight? Yes.

Obviously there are other potential issues with that (overall health, sustainability, etc), but speaking purely about weight loss, it shouldn't matter where the cals come from.

malibu927

michaelgazzard wrote: »

Ok, forgive all the questions I'm fairly new to this. I've read that the fat should be dietary fat i.e. Nuts avacado olive oil, so if for example I had my daily calls in biscuits I'd still lose weight?

Absolutely.

I kind of do IF (14:10 due to my work schedule) but I eat what I want as long as I'm hitting both my calories and my nutrients. Obviously you SHOULDN'T eat nothing but biscuits all day every day, but theoretically you can lose weight doing that.