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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's the timing of eating in relation to working out? And what do you [/quote]

Here's how my week looks.  When I am in weight loss mode (AKA I need to lose weight not maintain): Monday morning, I start my day with a normal breakfast and after that it's just water (nothing with artificial sweeneter) until Tuesday noon, then I eat lunch.  In essence I skip 3 meals and that results in about 30 hours.  Then I'll skip a day or two of fasting and do that again.  The beauty of a 30 hour fast is that it also shrinks your stomach, kinda like when you have a stomach bug, and your first meal afterwards you're about 5 bites into the meal and you feel stuffed?  It's kind of like that, so it works nicely to also curb the overeating abilities.  When I'm in just maintenance mode (NOT weight loss mode) I just skip 2 meals, so I essentially fast Monday from breakfast to Tuesday breakfast and then do that again later in the week.  It results in about a 23ish hour fast depending on how I time it.

As far as the relation to working out,  I go to the gym and do heavy weight resistance training every weekday morning.  It doesn't matter if it's in the middle of a fast or not, I workout in the morning, rotating through targeting different muscle groups for each day of the work week.  Your body has enough sugar stored in the liver to sustain you for 16 to 18 hours and it's not until then that you start to fuel your body with stored fat.  There's one thing to know about yourself, if you live in America you are addicted to carbs, sugars, and probably other food items/chemicals that you don't even know about.  When my wife and I first started doing IF, it was MENTAL torture to not eat, and we thought it was just because we were hungry.  No, it's not, it's because our bodies were going through withdrawals.  After regularly doing this for over 5 years now, sure we feel hungry, it's natural, but the beginning was the worst part before we had acclimated our bodies.

If you're a female reading this, just know that my wife is right along side me doing the same protocol.  You can't make excuses if you're not a guy, and no it doesn't affect her period.  She's every 28 days on the dot.[/quote]

Thanks for mansplaining this to us women.  Nothing greater than a man with a thorough grasp of female hormones and reproductive cycles.  Where did you attend medical school?  Is your obgyn practice accepting new patients?

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DP, oh yes, let's blame women overeating on our hormones! I am a women and do similar all the time. Nothing he wrote is wrong. Nothing is not applicable to women. Why don't you go eat some candy on your couch and then blame it on your hormones? I hate incompetent women.[/quote]

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