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Drinking coffee is not cheating, as it does not spike your insulin and does not put your body in metabolic state. No sugar and no cream. You’re all good! :)
👤nothrabannosir🕑7y🔼0🗨️0
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I listened to a super interesting podcast about fasting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R-eqJDQ2nU
Dr. Panda goes into detail about fasting and coffee. Great podcast about fasting.
Intermittent Fasting Confers Protection in CNS Autoimmunity by Altering the Gut Microbiota
https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(18)...
👤dominotw🕑7y🔼0🗨️0
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Ive been hearing more and more about IF. Curious how you manage it - for lets say 16 hours? Do you have a "dinner cutoff time" that works well? Does it mean you're skipping breakfast?
I never believed that breakfast was "the most important meal of the day". IF success sort of supports this & the fact that it was mostly marketing.
👤anonu🕑7y🔼0🗨️0
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I recently started 5:2 fasting, on five days I try to eat roughly maintenance, I also eat a slice of my coworkers birthday cake.
On two days, I limit my intake to 600kcal which I eat at lunchtime (I prepare a bento box with rice, vegetables and meat). You do the math, and it boils down to a caloric reduction diet roughly. The difference is, that I am only hungry on two days during the week, and I feel like going a day with almost no food is not harder than doing a constant deficit every day.
👤wirrbel🕑7y🔼0🗨️0
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Once you survive the first 24 hours of fasting (given you replenish electrolytes with salty water), i.e. some headache after 16-20 hours, then you can easily add another 48 hours, making it 3-in-a-row, and you can happily do high-intensity training as usually, without any effect on your performance. After 3 days you either start eating again or stop training. 3 days are recommended for "rebooting" the immune system; I try to do it once 1-2 months, not sure if it helps but I don't see any bad effects either, and it strengthens the will.
👤bitL🕑7y🔼0🗨️0
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I personally have found that I do feel "run down" which turned out to be lower blood pressure. I attributed this to low sodium intake. So, I drink two very low sugar (6g) recovery drinks for my first caloric intake around noon.
One thing that wasn't covered, and likely isn't in many of these weight loss recaps, is not just caloric deficit; but also food content. Sugar's (and carbs) relationship to fat and our bodies cannot be understated. There's plenty of reading on how high sugar diets are detrimental. Here's an interesting listen: https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/refined-sugar
This image alone scares the snot out of me: http://reachingutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/sugar-i...
I think most people are aware of this in principle, but don't often associate normal foods as being high in sugar. Orange juice is probably the worst offender. All the sugar, none of the fiber.