Intermittent Fasting/excercise is the best weight loss tool i've ever done

[Rice'N Beckford]

I was doing my usual IF yesterday. Yesterday was leg/glute day, so I would do the usual leg workouts like Squats, Romanian Deadlifts, Bench Glute Thrust, but I would incorporate them with jumprope. I didn't eat the WHOLE DAY. I literally ate my first meal when I went to Dave And Busters that night around 9. It was a 1300 calorie sandwich with fires on the side. I also had 1 Coke and Malibu, a Henny and Strawberry drink, a Coconut Ice Rum Drink called Miami nice, and 2 Henny and Cokes. I had ALL THAT last night, and the scale showed that I LOST 1lb between last night and this morning. That's how I know IF works.

EDIT-That's not IF causing the weightloss, that's just simple carb restriction and timing.



And plus I have a fast metabolism...My bad ya'll....



Don't let me deceive you....

Dehydrated

 

[PortCityProphet]

i've never clock watched so much in my life. watching it until it's time to eat, watching it to see how much time i have left, going faster at the gym cause I have to be back home by a certain time to get this last meal in. This is kinda exciting

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

i went on a junk food binge watching spiderman last night
ate a 2.5 ounce bag of almonds, ate a whole small popcorn bag and dug in 7 BBQ wings with blue cheese

My body and weight remained the same when i woke up the next morning,

im at 217 aiming for 205
just did a 22 hour fast today + fasted cardio and weightlifting, and my stomach wasnt yelling at me like "Yo whats good with the food b "

i ate a huge protein fueled dinner of spanish chicken, and pork with Fried plantains w/ a protein shake
im good for the night

 

[Apex]

1 meal a day, every day. When I first tried it back in 2012, I lost 30lbs in slightly under two months. Activity wise all I did was skip rope and body weight exercises. I wasnt focused on gettin bigger. All I did was eat my 1 meal, fast and drank a shyt ton of water (at least a gallon) and repeat. My ability to eat large amounts decreased dramatically with every passing week; It's like the moment food gets into my stomach, my body is like "nikka we good", and the thought of eating anything else genuinely disgusts me. When youre doing 1meal a day though, You have to fall back on the 'train like a mad man' mentality. You dont need the added metabolic stress of punishing your body. Walking, HIIT and calisthenics are good enough. You dont have to treat you exercise routine like a cotdamn 'Rocky' montage. The weight will melt off in short time. Be patient and come to terms with the concept of less is more.


Oh and all that "safe amount of weight loss" talk is a bunch of bullshyt at least in this context. The body will lose at the rate it is most comfortable with. I simply started 23 hr fasting with the mindset of "keep doing it til i see something change", I wasnt expecting such quick changes, But It happened. That was also around the time i started getting facial hair in areas it was previously either sparse or non existent. Hormones are key.

Isn't 30 pounds in 2 months too much? You're gonna lose strength.

I've been told 1-2 pounds a week is what you should aim for. At the rate you went, you were losing 3.75 pounds per week.

 

[Rhyme n Tekniq]

Isn't 30 pounds in 2 months too much? You're gonna lose strength.

I've been told 1-2 pounds a week is what you should aim for. At the rate you went, you were losing 3.75 pounds per week.

No diss to you personally, but fukk what conventional wisdom has to say about the rate at which im supposed to lose weight or health in general. The body will lose at whatever rate its supposed to without compromising homeostasis. If you dont have the proper endocrine function right off the bat then you weight loss will seem sluggish.

Coming from personal experience, The perceived "muscle loss" was negligible and mostly glycogen depletion. Also people overestimate how much muscle they really have. My muscles look as jacked as ever. Another thing is I carried alot of fat despite being a naturally muscled up guy, so I had plenty of stored energy to burn.

during my whole weightloss period of fasting for 19-24 hours, I was never uncomfortable, jittery, or cranky. In fact I was at my most zen and focused. I weighed myself every 10 days, and until the tail end of my cut I consistently loss 4-6lbs without much exercise outside of jumping rope and a few minutes of calisthenics. Keep in mind I weighed myself every 10 days, or Approx. week and a half so That can explain some of the huge losses im reporting. Youre dealing with someone who was 100Lbs overweight, So those type of losses are within the realm of possibility. I know cause I lived through it.

I encourage you to shut out all the white noise of conflicting mainstream fitness advice thats making people OCD about something as natural as losing weight. I struggled for 7 years because i couldnt let go of all the religous dogma associated with losing weight so I would jump from one failed plan to another. Then I tried fasting and I started getting massive results that only got better as time progressed. Keep this shyt simple; Do IF, cut out all (Fructose)sugars save for small portions of fruit and drink a ton of water. THE WEIGHT WILL COME OFF. Trust me on this, but ultimately, youre gonna have to take this journey for yourself and by yourself; Dont allow others to place their limitations on you nor let random articles boasting about these dubious "studies" and "research" sway you from your path, especially if you are already succeeding with whatever you choose to do. Go your own way and fukk what all these talking head MF'ers are blabbing about.

I dont wanna convert you or sell you on anything. I just want you to know that it is possible to lose weight comfortably without all the mental fatigue and stress inducing nutrition nazi bullshyt.

Like Ive said times and time again... Conventional thinking gets you conventional results.

 

[Apex]

I encourage you to shut out all the white noise of conflicting mainstream fitness advice thats making people OCD about something as natural as losing weight. I struggled for 7 years because i couldnt let go of all the religous dogma associated with losing weight so I would jump from one failed plan to another. Then I tried fasting and I started getting massive results that only got better as time progressed. Keep this shyt simple; Do IF, cut out all (Fructose)sugars save for small portions of fruit and drink a ton of water. THE WEIGHT WILL COME OFF. Trust me on this, but ultimately, youre gonna have to take this journey for yourself and by yourself; Dont allow others to place their limitations on you nor let random articles boasting about these dubious "studies" and "research" sway you from your path, especially if you are already succeeding with whatever you choose to do. Go your own way and fukk what all these talking head MF'ers are blabbing about.

Like Ive said times and time again... Conventional thinking gets you conventional results.

Does all that really even matter as long as you're under your TDEE?

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

few years back college had me fukked up. Eating like shyt, drinking, up all hours of the night, eating after the club/bar.

Of course the first thing I did outside of cardio and a lil lifting was eat healthier but it was really IF that did it.

I was ashamed. I had put on probably 35-40lbs in a short time frame.

I shed that in no time and then I got cookin towards new goals. I'm in the best shape of my life and it's really not a strict diet at all. It's just IF

 

[Rhyme n Tekniq]

Does all that really even matter as long as you're under your TDEE?

I wish i could say yea, but nah. When I was counting calories and thinking i could just work the food off WHILE doing IF. I was smashing sweet teas, ice cream and all kinds of sugary shyt. I lost weight initially but I gradually consumed more and more sugar to the point my weight loss stalled and even went up after a while even while being at a 600 calorie deficit and exercise. You cant outwork a diet filled with Fructose. Here's some links to keep this post short:

How Fructose Makes Us Fat (and Accelerates Aging)

Im only telling you this cause i had to learn the hardway, IF is not an excuse to gorge on a bunch of bullshyt , but with only a modicum of discipline, It makes it seem effortless. I made the former mistake of getting cocky during my first time IF'ing and started smashing a bunch of sugary shyt it ruined my progress. You can have your carbs from bread, potatoes and beans but keep that sweet shyt to a minimum. Im not saying having 1 Snickers a day will fukk up everything you worked for. Have a peace of mind but dont indulge because its easy to with fructose containing foods.

 

[MillionMills]

Brehs I have little to no motivation to lift weights anymore. Im lifting 4 days per week atm. I really need a break but I'm doing IF now and trying to cut without losing muscle. This is my 4th week doing IF and I've dropped some weight and I want to drop about 15 lbs more.

Maybe scale back to 3 days per week?

What should I do? The gym isn't the same anymore, I have no desire

 

[The ADD]

Scale back but increase activity somewhere else like walking or hiking.

Brehs I have little to no motivation to lift weights anymore. Im lifting 4 days per week atm. I really need a break but I'm doing IF now and trying to cut without losing muscle. This is my 4th week doing IF and I've dropped some weight and I want to drop about 15 lbs more.

Maybe scale back to 3 days per week?

What should I do? The gym isn't the same anymore, I have no desire

 

[PortCityProphet]

Man I've been so knocked out dead sleepy after eating my last meal of the day that I don't even go to the gym. Anybody else get KO'd by the itis after their last meal?
And should I continue my same hours on the weekend or can I move them back since I'm awake at different hours?

 

[The ADD]

Man I've been so knocked out dead sleepy after eating my last meal of the day that I don't even go to the gym. Anybody else get KO'd by the itis after their last meal?
And should I continue my same hours on the weekend or can I move them back since I'm awake at different hours?

Move them around if needed but if it's causing you miss training

 

[PortCityProphet]

Move them around if needed but if it's causing you miss training

That's what I'm saying. Before I started I used to hit the gym around 3-3:30, but that's the last hour and a half of eating time, so I eat. But then I either get mollywhopped by the itis or don't feel like going at prime rush hour. Did that earlier this week and had to bounce without doing my normal routine

 

[The ADD]

That's what I'm saying. Before I started I used to hit the gym around 3-3:30, but that's the last hour and a half of eating time, so I eat. But then I either get mollywhopped by the itis or don't feel like going at prime rush hour. Did that earlier this week and had to bounce without doing my normal routine

Generally speaking your eating window should be timed to allow for a solid post workout meal.

 

[PortCityProphet]

Generally speaking your eating window should be timed to allow for a solid post workout meal.

That would mean I'd have to move my start time up to 11. That's 12 waking hours with no nourishment but water while working outside in this heat
fukk that. This might only be a week long thing for me