Fasting and Eating.

[StevensK]

Fasting is so damn difficult, I don't know how you do it.

 

[jJjburton]

Fasting is so damn difficult, I don't know how you do it.

Its easy for me not to eat. But eating alot is so dam hard for me.

 

[jJjburton]

Is there anything besides insulin spike that ruins fast?

do medications? Drugs?

 

[jJjburton]

Drinking water helps, if you want flavor i swig vinegar and spit it out. Which is only in desperate times. Seltzer, but watch insulin response.

 

[Cashton]

Is it a good idea to fast and get all macros in between an 6-8 hour window?

Is there any downsides to this

After lockdown lifted in Ontario I was up at 8:00am, breakfast of 2cup egg and 2cup oatmeal for 9:30 and in the gym by 10, since we’ve been relocked down I’ve been sleeping till 12 and working out in the afternoon, I also go to bed between 10pm-1:00am so that means I am fasted roughly 12 hours a day and I’ve noticed considerably more growth in this last month then I’ve noticed in most other months prior, HOWEVER, I am eating every 2-3 hours I’m awake, and my workouts have changed from mostly cable and machine workouts to strictly dumbbell and barbell, work.

Edit: sorry another change was the addition of another rest day, inserted into the week.

 

[Cashton]

LOL! I do fasted cardio. Nothing but water. But I do not "fast" in the sense that I go many hours or all day without eating or eat only in a narrow window. I come home, shower, and down my 6-8 eggs and half cup to cup of oats, or, if seriously cutting, two eggs and cup of egg whites and half cup or cup of oats depending on how many carbs I need that day. I put chopped up gala apple and cinnamon in the oats for flavoring (weigh and track the apple).

How does that actually taste? I spend a lot of money on Quaker Oats cinnamon apple flavour.

 

[malfeasance]

Tastes great! And I know what I am eating, since the apples are fresh and raw and the Old Fashioned Oats have only ONE ingredient and no added sugar.

I do not buy the instant or 1 minute variety.

 

[malfeasance]

But let's be honest here, if you are not used to eating with no added sugar, it is going to taste different. Almost all of my food is made from raw ingredients and I do not do sugar (at least not unless it is an occasional treat of some sort), so I look forward to the taste.

If you are coming off a diet of eating sugary stuff you might not like it at first. Let's face it, unless you buy raw ingredients and make your own meals, all Americans get sugar at every meal.