Losing Weight

Roberto Baggio wrote: how was the hunger around 3pm?  What weight did you start out at? Fair play that’s some going

Brilliant, fair play 

It's quite the opposite on energy levels, I used to get tired a lot and I work late nights and up with the children in the morning so 5 hours sleep was all I got and I'd be lethargic all day, I found even when I went back to work I had more energy than ever. Studies have shown that intermittent fasting raises your energy levels.

Question for those who tried intermittent fasting, is the purpose to skip breakfast or do you still have breakfast as first meal of the day? Thinking of giving it a go for a few months, thinking breakfast about 10.30 then a lunch about 1.30/2 and then have dinner wrapped up by 6.30

Shedite wrote: Question for those who tried intermittent fasting, is the purpose to skip breakfast or do you still have breakfast as first meal of the day? Thinking of giving it a go for a few months, thinking breakfast about 10.30 then a lunch about 1.30/2 and then have dinner wrapped up by 6.30 I’m guessing there’ll be no desire to snack in between those, hence the reduction in calories. I read elsewhere that intermittent fasting works by avoiding breakfast and eating from 12-8, which presumably is just lunch, snack, dinner.

If i miss breakfast im hungry for the rest of the day no matter how big a lunch i have or dinner im hungry again not long after. 

Lost 2 stone (~12.5kg) since April. Essentially WFH has freed up 2 to 3 hours each day which allowed me to run like f**k during pandemic. Covered bang on 1000km in the past calendar year... 970km of which between April and December. Mostly 10k's. At the height of summer I was running 3 or 4 times a week (found the 5k's prelockdown were not burning enough calories to lose weight). Continued to eat normally during the pandemic... my other half is health eating conscious so the household diet is pretty good. Lots of fish, fruit and vegetables... no meat. The diet is usually low in sugar although we do have bursts of baking every now and then. Plenty of pasta, spuds etc. We make our own meals from scratch. Been 3 or 4 months since last takeaway. Last time I ate out was in November (battered fish and chips). 

Edited by colemanY2K - 02 Jan 2021 at 1:24pm

Zinedine Kilbane 110 wrote: Shedite wrote: Question for those who tried intermittent fasting, is the purpose to skip breakfast or do you still have breakfast as first meal of the day? Thinking of giving it a go for a few months, thinking breakfast about 10.30 then a lunch about 1.30/2 and then have dinner wrapped up by 6.30 I’m guessing there’ll be no desire to snack in between those, hence the reduction in calories. I read elsewhere that intermittent fasting works by avoiding breakfast and eating from 12-8, which presumably is just lunch, snack, dinner. I would assume you are better having breakfast as that’s get the metabolism going and then just dinner in the evening with healthy snacks in between - fruit, chicken etc  I know you have small kids so time is limited but I always try and fit in one or two 10-15 mins work outs during the day. I just do push ups, some weights, squats, kicks etc  I used to do lots of running but no time now with a baby and my cycling to work has stopped. So I’m fighting hard just to stay the same with lockdown... I’m not eating or drinking more but not getting the exercise Im used too.