Well, you get the idea by now. My fasting days have settled into a manageable routing that works for me, and it probably won't change much for the time being.
Calories on week 5, fasting day #1 - 615
Interestingly though, Helen (my wife) came across an article about fasting, that provides some pointers as to how to get the most benefit out of it.
http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2012/09/14/intermittent-fasting-benefits.aspx
In summary:
Eating one meal a day (and snacking on whey protein and berries) gives maximum benefit, because your body is actually fasting for a much longer time between meals (around 15 hours).
Now I'm not prepared to try this (because I want to keep on enjoying fasting!), but as it turns out, my new regime of skipping breakfast goes some way towards it: the gap (fast) between finishing digesting my evening meal from the night before, and eating my first meal, is about 8 to 9 hours. If I had eaten breakfast before I went to work, it would only be about 4 hours.
On Thursday, I'll try to hold out eating my scrambled eggs until the afternoon and see how I get on!
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