Hello all.
Found out about intermittent fasting last weekend. Basically, intermittent fasting (from now on IF) is a diet protocol where one eats during predetermined eating 'windows'. There are various ways to perform IF; 16 hour fasts with 8 hour windows (leangains.com), 24 hour fasts followed by 24 hour eating windows (stop-eat-stop), or many other methods. This is one of the diet protocols that make sense to me, I've tried the 6 meals a day, 3 meals a day, restricted calories, restricted carbs (not extreme like Atkins) but have always gotten burned out on them. This was especially true with 6 meals a day as it is a huge hastle to prepare the meals. There are also various studies that indicate that fasting for at least 12-16 hours has various benefits affecting hormones like insulin, HGH, testosterone, leptin, etc. These hormonal benefits have various health benefits. Coincidentally 12-16 hours is approximately the time it takes for ketosis to start-up (especially with moderately low carb intake or intense exercise that drains glycogen storage without refilling them afterwards with carbs).
I'm not going any deeper into it as I'm no expert and there are better resources to get information on IF.
Well, I'm trying it out. I'm basically doing lean gains style protocol, allowing an eating window between around 12 and 6 pm. I am flexible and if I play golf, I break the fast around 1-2 pm and then allow myself to eat until 8pm. In addition to this, I'm slightly restricting calories, although I am not too fussy about this as I also plan to do a 36 hour fast about once per week. The reason I like this is because it is easy, I basically eat 1 big meal a day followed by 1 or 2 smaller meals. Outside the window I don't have to think about food and go about my business. My goal is to lower my BF%, which is probably between 15-20% right now. Currently, I am playing golf as my main form of exercise, I will start up in the gym again in 2 weeks (various reasons why not tomorrow).
Read/learn more about IF here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermittent_fasting
http://www.leangains.com
http://www.precisionnutrition.com/intermittent-fasting
http://https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA2D4E8A91B027274&feature=plcp
Found out about intermittent fasting last weekend. Basically, intermittent fasting (from now on IF) is a diet protocol where one eats during predetermined eating 'windows'. There are various ways to perform IF; 16 hour fasts with 8 hour windows (leangains.com), 24 hour fasts followed by 24 hour eating windows (stop-eat-stop), or many other methods. This is one of the diet protocols that make sense to me, I've tried the 6 meals a day, 3 meals a day, restricted calories, restricted carbs (not extreme like Atkins) but have always gotten burned out on them. This was especially true with 6 meals a day as it is a huge hastle to prepare the meals. There are also various studies that indicate that fasting for at least 12-16 hours has various benefits affecting hormones like insulin, HGH, testosterone, leptin, etc. These hormonal benefits have various health benefits. Coincidentally 12-16 hours is approximately the time it takes for ketosis to start-up (especially with moderately low carb intake or intense exercise that drains glycogen storage without refilling them afterwards with carbs).
I'm not going any deeper into it as I'm no expert and there are better resources to get information on IF.
Well, I'm trying it out. I'm basically doing lean gains style protocol, allowing an eating window between around 12 and 6 pm. I am flexible and if I play golf, I break the fast around 1-2 pm and then allow myself to eat until 8pm. In addition to this, I'm slightly restricting calories, although I am not too fussy about this as I also plan to do a 36 hour fast about once per week. The reason I like this is because it is easy, I basically eat 1 big meal a day followed by 1 or 2 smaller meals. Outside the window I don't have to think about food and go about my business. My goal is to lower my BF%, which is probably between 15-20% right now. Currently, I am playing golf as my main form of exercise, I will start up in the gym again in 2 weeks (various reasons why not tomorrow).
Read/learn more about IF here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermittent_fasting
http://www.leangains.com
http://www.precisionnutrition.com/intermittent-fasting
http://https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA2D4E8A91B027274&feature=plcp
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