The Healthy Thread
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I just wanted to let you know, intermittent fasting works really well because it keeps your body in ketosis for most of the time and has helped me a lot.
When you fast intermittently you don't have to necessarily pick to stop eating at night until the morning. The idea is to fast for 16 hours and then you have a window of 8 hours to eat. Schedule it the way it works best for you. This way you will do it a lot easier. The reason why a lot of people like the 9-10pm starting fast is because they will sleep for 8 hours and then just have 8 hours of being awake to deal with if they are hungry.
For example, for me, it doesn't really work that way. I'm usually working and am occupied during the day so I don't even eat, so for me it worked better if my 8 hours window for eating started at 6pm until 2am. This way I am done with my day and get to cook and make my food and just spend an evening eating and watching a movie or something. This also helps if you go out, so you can eat something with friends etc.
Also, when you are eating within the 8 hour window the real key is to eat not more than your maintenance calories (for most people that's like 2500 calories and balance good low glycemic carbs if you can't live without them with protein and some good fat). The 8 hour window is not now you can rampage McDonalds type of thing where a lot of people think they can eat whatever. You still have to keep an eye on the diet.
I'm sure others have mentioned, during the day, green tea (unsweetened), or matcha tea, black coffee, you can afford very light cream, and if you are using sweeteners know that not all of them are created equal, some sweeteners will spike your insulin thus ruining your fast, so stick with Stevia if you can or stuff with Erythritol because other sweeteners like Splenda will spike your insulin. Caffein is actually super beneficial for fasting and melting fat because it can increase your metabolism between 50-70% and significantly influence your fat loss. Just don't overdo it.
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On another note, I look a lot bigger today but I have dropped to 184 lbs. I am not sure I like this look. I guess I packed some muscle but I really want to get lean. I am not really kind of in a mood to be honest here because my goal was not to get bigger :( :( My trainer and all other trainers are telling me just be patient my vascularity is showing that my body fat percentage is going down and fairly low now but I still look big to myself and the fat in some areas like chest and abdominal area feel like they will never melt :(
- oh and notype, if you get your coffee or drinks at Starbucks avoid their Matcha tea like the plague. That shit has 50% sugar at Starbucks.Boz
- Do you drink beer, liquor or wine? I'm trying the keto diet + IF but probably undoing that by having few drinks in evening. Just curious.Squiddy
- @squiddy depends on the drink. I do drink Michelob Ultra beer sometimes. Wine is definitely a no no. Scotch/Whiskey have no carbs but alcohol will slow dwn ketoBoz
- the reason being when you take alcohol even though it has no carbs, the body will use it for fuel/energy and until it burns out it will pause ketosis.Boz
- Thanks for feedback! I usually have some whisky. Didn't know that liquor puts keto on pause. Blogs just say it is ok in moderation but no explanationSquiddy
- This is amazing info Boz, just seeing this... almost missed it. Much to absorb... right now I'm fighting with myself about what's right for my body...notype
- So much to consider and routes to take. For certain the ketonic diet has been calling me. Really glad to get this information from you...notype
- re the fasting. I always thought that by fasting your body reacts to new food by storing it as fat, as it's afraid it won't know when the next meal is comingGnash
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- good to note about Starbucks. I usually just get coffee from there but I will avoid venturing off into unknown territory as i've been known 2 do.notype
- If your vascularity is showing, I'm guessing your BF% is <15 now, probably more like 13, which is pretty fucking awesome.Continuity
- That said, in my experience (and also what I've read in various sources) fat from the chest, abs, and lower back is always the last to burn off.Continuity
- You doing any HIIT, or cardio of any description? That's usually the ticket for getting rid of the last bit of excess fat.Continuity
- @Continuity yeah on Saturdays I do HIIT. I try to do cardio for 20 mins high intensity every day I workout which is right now 4 times a week + HIIT on SaturdaysBoz