Intermittent fasting

anzacdogg
anzacdogg Posts: 2 Member
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Hey everyone names anzac fresh back into the fitness/dieting after i injured my back deadlifting 6 months ago and on on the off time i gained about 12kgs... I pretty much want to start lean gaining and heard alot of good things about intermittent fasting. So was basically just wondering if anyone else has intermittent fasted and what time frames and calories they were consuming whilst fasting. Any helps great help, Cheers guys!

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  • jmcfarland247
    jmcfarland247 Posts: 21 Member
    I started it about 11 days ago. I'm doing 16/8, my eating window is 7am to 3pm because I workout at 430 am. I would rather my eating window be in the afternoon, but my early workout kind of forces me to eat right after I'm done. It took me about 2 days to adjust. But I'm definitely loving it and plan to do a Keto diet as soon as I'm done shredding this last bit of body fat. You can always message me if you have any other questions!
  • StealthHealth
    StealthHealth Posts: 2,417 Member
    edited March 2016
    I've used fasting for a few years now (4 or 5 at least). I started on the 5:2 fast diet (5 days @ maintenance and 2 days @ 600 cals) as a weight loss method but now use IF (I run a 14:10 type window - if fits into my lifestyle better than 16:8). I've pulled a couple of 24 hour fasts in the past just for the hell of it and to see what it felt like.

    The thing I wanted to say is that IF is not, in itself, a weight loss protocol - weight loss is driven by calorific deficit alone - how you partition up your food is irrelevant. You can use IF when losing, maintaining or gaining weight.

    So why do it? I do it because it simplifies my life (I just don't need to worry about food in the mornings) and I'm happier eating a much larger meal in the evening, even though it means I have to abstain earlier in the day. I sometimes work out fasted and find that my strength performance is the same as when I work out fed (I think that if I did more long, steady state cardio I may notice a drop in performance but I do very little of that these days).

    When fasting I drink plenty of water and a couple of cups of espresso through the morning.

    I also think that when fasting (especially in the early days) it is still very important to log your food to ensure that you are neither over or under eating relative to your goal.

    Best wishes.
  • anzacdogg
    anzacdogg Posts: 2 Member
    Cheers guys for the info very much appreciated! 1st day of IF underway Doing the 16/8 suits me well really hasn't been that bad but still is early days... and yeah you were right I've probably drunk about 2 liters of water today already. Have either of you trained heavy whilst fasting? I've seen some articles that say not to on fasting days?
  • StealthHealth
    StealthHealth Posts: 2,417 Member
    I always train as heavy as I can LOL. So, yes - I've trained heavy fasted and fed with no noticeable difference in lifts between the two.

    But, the thing that does make a difference to my lifting is being in calorific deficit for the week (i.e. lifting and trying to lose weight). In that instance I find my lifting is harder.
  • wooldridge3
    wooldridge3 Posts: 1 Member
    Hi,
    Started a 5/2 regime on the 14th and doing proper fasts, only green tea. Cut out booze & eating smaller meals too & was totally amazed to loose 9 lbs first week. Trouble is this site doesn't seem to be able to accept fasting days & calculate them into your running total. Just gives a lecture about eating more! Very frustrating. Anyone know a way round it?
    Still, definately seems to work..
  • CollieFit
    CollieFit Posts: 1,683 Member
    anzacdogg wrote: »
    Cheers guys for the info very much appreciated! 1st day of IF underway Doing the 16/8 suits me well really hasn't been that bad but still is early days... and yeah you were right I've probably drunk about 2 liters of water today already. Have either of you trained heavy whilst fasting? I've seen some articles that say not to on fasting days?

    I do 16/8 and really if you think about it, it's simply a smaller daily eating window to the standard 12/12 that others have, but while it means I delay breakfast to 11am and don't snack after 7pm, ultimately I get plenty of calories to enable me to train.

    Or were you referring to throwing in a couple of "proper" fast days e.g. 24 hours, such as only liquids from dinner to dinner?

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