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- mg331
Do any of you do intermittent fasting?
I’ve been familiar with it for a while and my barber swears by it. I get the science behind it and the benefit of packing roughly 2 1/2 meals into 8 hours and being able to have those meals be more substantial than if you were starting the day with a decent breakfast.
So, I started today and was so much more easily able to plot out my food for the day and stick to my 40:30:30 macros, protein, fat, carbs. It was easier to apply and IIFYM approach and allow for moderate bad stuff like ice cream.
7am - 12pm was a struggle but that might have been because I had vitamins and supplements on an empty stomach. Once I had an electrolyte drink that I usually have each morning, I felt better. Also had lots of green tea.
I’m intrigued by the claims of energy and/or reduced brain fog by way of the fasted period and not starting the day potentially with shitty high-glycemic carbs and sugar.
I hope it’s not wishful thinking but I can envision finding the same enjoyment with this that I do Keto: a strict regimented approach to eating with plenty of research and anecdotal success stories to back it up, and a sort of gamification mindset in which I have to carefully plan my food to stay within my macros.
- interesting. was thinking of starting - especially if it counters brain fog.inteliboy
- Do you plan on eating mechanically for the rest of your life?zarkonite
- I love eating, cooking, sharing meals with family and friends to much to make my meals a task. But I admire you, you sound like a very focused guy.dmay
- robotron3k0
Experimental 8 hour binaural beat
90 minutes max is the recco.
- utopian3
#MAGA Nation
- OBBTKN4
I've lost 5kgs cutting alcohol intake (still do beers with friends on weekends) and eating less meat, without much effort...
Started bike training past week (2 short rides of 40kms and 1 of 80kms) will see if I can get rid of another 10kgs by spring next year and achieve the goal of 90kgs weight.
A tall mofo here, need to loss this weight and improve my climbing skills for a pair of bike races next summer.
PD.: This and stop smoking forever (I smoke only a pair of cigars when dinning with friends).
- MrAbominable2
four weeks back into keto. had been on it for about 1.5yrs. fell off for the holidays and never got back on.
looks like there's better commercial food options now. that's nice.
anyway, super depressed this past year from a job that makes me unhappy. caused me to put on a bunch of weight. i'm trying to control what i can... so: weight and exercise.
i have a big Metric gravel ride in late October i'm training for and it's a big leap from where i am now. tick tock.
- Bennn0
Check this :
- fooler2
SOBER'TOBER!
I'm going to attempt a sober October. It's going to be hard. I've been drinking everyday for years. Just an IPA at lunch and/or 2 at happy hour... a few during a football game or soccer match. Its starting to add up. I'm not at a Leaving Las Vegas level of alcoholism but I think my craft beer "hobby" is disguising my dependence. Plus I'm 25 lbs over my ideal weight.
I took 3 months off about 2 years ago and lost about 15 lbs but I gained it all back and I've been drinking more then I did then.
Wish me luck. I'm going to need it.- Godspeed @fooler.
Going to do a NO-vem-BE(E)R over here for November. Journal your ups and downs on here.
: )ideaist - good luck manrenderedred
- Day 4 of no alcohol and going to the gym everyday and I catch a nasty head cold and sore throat. I think the alcohol was keeping the germs away.fooler
- Godspeed @fooler.
- ideaist2
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- fooler11
My Sober-tober is almost officially over. I've made it 30 days without a drop of alcohol with no problem at all. I went to a concert without going to the bar multiple times and not having judge when the new slow song was going to be played so I could go to the bathroom. I met some friends out and ordered a mocktail and some soda waters. Bought some non alcoholic IPS's for my cravings but they weren't very good so I only drank three of them all month. I went to the gym a few times a week. Started eating better and managed to lose 8 lbs in a month.
I didn't even raid my fully stocked liquor cabinet although beer was my problem and not the hard stuff.
I was thinking of drinking a few beers tonight while I took my kids trick or treating but I'm actually really enjoying this moment of sobriety and not being hung over every morning.- cool! Was wondering how this was going for you. I'm gonna try for a sober-november.sarahfailin
- Nice work! I'm 14 days into my sober test drive. Planning to keep going until end of Nov.e-wo
- Every morning? I'm glad that's over, keep it up!Maaku
- Good on you. But non-alcoholic IPAs? That's worse than IPAs.garbage
- Inspiring @fooler; on a NO-vem-BEER starting today. Looking forward to many of things you seem to have enjoyed about sobriety.ideaist
- I stopped drinking for 10 weeks now. I will only drink at events like my own birthday. Want to stay away from alcohol for the rest. My life improved impressive.SimonFFM
- Bennn-1
'Why Vitamin Pills Don’t Work, and May Be Bad for You'
:: We dose up on antioxidants as if they are the elixir of life. At best, they are probably ineffective. At worse, they may just send you to an early grave ::
- mg331
I've been completely abandoning most of my good habits since after Halloween because it's so hard to eat well over the holidays. I'm still doing intermittent fasting and working out, but eating a bit more sugar.
Considering starting the new year fresh with a mix of intermittent fasting and carb cycling, which always seemed a little daunting especially when I only plug in one set of numbers for macros and percentages in my food app (which has always been critical to success, gains, and fat loss).
The problem is, I don't work out at night until about 8pm, and that's when I stop eating on IF. So, I'm not eating after workouts and not getting protein as I should following workouts.
I could switch my IF hours to be done eating at 10pm, which would have me eating between 2pm and 10pm, which is a little weird if lunch is being offered around noon, or I'm out with my family.
- Krassy1
- THERE'S NOTHING TO DO AGAINST COLD AND FLU, you just have to take it and wait.Bennn
- This worked for me; have you tried it and it didn't work for you??Krassy
- BTW Bennn, thanks for bennnsplaining, but why are you shouting?Krassy
- Pseudoscienceutopian
- It's not for the sufferers U, this makes them reek so bad the healthy people stay far away...robotron3k
- Garlic when chopped finely and placed on the skin overnight, will result in a chemical burn. People use this to burn off moles and warts. It would make sense ..ShenanigansTV
- That the garlic could do some damage to a virus or bacteria.ShenanigansTV
- there's 1000s of tricks to fight cold, none really work, your immune system do the work, you just have to waitBennn
- ^ Exactly, about 95% of healing is NOT being sleep-deprived & NOT being dehydrated. Oddly, many people don't achieve & pharma products can't replace those two.********
- WTF I ordered warm milk.dibec
- Replace Vinegar with fresh orange (just one) and garlic with fresh kurkuma. I do it regularly to prevent.SimonFFM
- I tried this and I'm now dead. I'll try again next time thoughIanbolton
- i smoke 5 cigarettes a day when having a cold. really helps!milfhunter
- LolMrT
