TNCR Pandemic Weight Loss Challenge
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Re' snacking.
I'm a great believer in intermittent fasting. Not the whacko "600 calories for two days and then binge" stuff. I fast from 8PM until about noon the next day. That, and restricting carbs (<100 grams per day) was a 25 lb loss for me. It's easy and sustainable. My only cheat is my (cheap) Scotch after 8 PM, until about 9.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@george-k said in TNCR Pandemic Weight Loss Challenge:
Re' snacking.
I'm a great believer in intermittent fasting. Not the whacko "600 calories for two days and then binge" stuff. I fast from 8PM until about noon the next day. That, and restricting carbs (<100 grams per day) was a 25 lb loss for me. It's easy and sustainable. My only cheat is my (cheap) Scotch after 8 PM, until about 9.
Did you do that every day or a few days here and a few days there? I think I can do that pretty easily. I’m not normally hungry in the morning, but eat just because I am told it’s important...
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As for the challenge, do we want to start Monday morning, March 1st?
M&M’s suggests a weigh in (you don’t have to post your weight if you don’t want to), measuring your waist (you don’t need to post again, but she recommends still measuring your waist because sometimes the victories aren’t in pounds but inches. Your weight might stay the same, but your clothes start getting a little looser...), and a picture
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For many years lunch was my first meal of the day.
I always had what my Dad called the soldier’s breakfast - cigarettes and coffee.
No way I could skip breakfast now. Especially given the amount of coffee I drink in the am.
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I’m in, by the way. I’ll use it as my motivation to exercise here. I’m just trying to move in a different direction.
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@lufins-dad said in TNCR Pandemic Weight Loss Challenge:
Did you do that every day or a few days here and a few days there? I think I can do that pretty easily. I’m not normally hungry in the morning, but eat just because I am told it’s important...
Every day. Every single day.
- Stop eating at 8 PM, start at noon the next day. That's 16 hours of fasting.
- Limit carbs to 150 grams (100 is better)
- Keep calories under 1800 per day.
Easy, peasy.
Go to YouTube and look up "Jason Fung" for intermittent fasting. He's a nephrologist, and he explains the physiology of fasting very clearly. You have to convince your body that you're starving, and its easy to do.
David Sinclair in his book "Lifespan" talks about the beneficial effects of "stressing" your body.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@george-k said in TNCR Pandemic Weight Loss Challenge:
Easy, peasy.
I guess. I do it differently but the same idea.
I eat first around 90 minutes, 2 hours after I wake up. Very light protein stuff: 2 eggs, one piece of toast. I have to do this, though. If I start feeling hungry in the morning, and I don't do anything about it, I'm worthless for the entire day. I've tried it, and I can't make skipping breakfast work for me. I also tried fruit instead of protein and it's the same result. So, I do what my body tells me.
From there I'm good until dinner. After dinner and at night, it's pu'erh tea instead of food.
I don't know what kind of strategy you would call that but it's working for me and I don't even want to cheat at it, so that's what I'm sticking with.
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I’m the same way, Aqua, I need protein for breakfast. If I just have cereal or a bagel it doesn’t hold off the hunger
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Like Jon, breakfast during my single days consisted of coffee and a cigarette. I wasn’t hungry till lunch.
My biggest challenge will be avoiding food after 8. For years I was stuck in a routine of nothing in the morning, a very light lunch, and a large dinner often very late (8:00).
My second biggest challenge will be beer. I like 1-2 beers a day... That’s not conducive to shrinking the waist.
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Isn't life shitty enough for you guys already?
I'm only joining in once cycling starts up.
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@george-k said in TNCR Pandemic Weight Loss Challenge:
Go to YouTube and look up "Jason Fung" for intermittent fasting.
You can find tons of information on the Internet. Just google "intermittent fasting". There are also books on the subject, but unless you want to go deep, you don't need to read a whole book on the subject.
And you don't have to do 12-8. You can schedule any time that suits. If your body prefers 10-6, that's okay too.
Breakfast: It's a matter of retraining your body. It differs for everyone, but generally if you're not hungry in the morning it's because you ate either too late or too much (or both) the night before. You should wake up hungry.
For Jon: A carby breakfast doesn't hold you because carbs get digested fast. It rapidly shoots up your blood sugar and then dives it back down again, and bang, you're hungry. (Somebody once wrote that it even drops lower than it was before you ate. I don't know if that's true.) Protein with a small carb input will keep you full longer. Wanting to gain weight is another thing, though.
I have found the old adage to be useful: Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, sup like a peasant.
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
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@catseye3 said in TNCR Pandemic Weight Loss Challenge:
And you don't have to do 12-8. You can schedule any time that suits. If your body prefers 10-6, that's okay too.
George does 8 to 12. That’s 16 hours. Not 8.
It would be hard for me, honestly.
DON’T let them eat cake.
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Right but you said 12-8 and offered 10-6 as an alternative. That’s only 8 hours. Probably everyone does that without trying.
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I am the thinned fat man in the group. Or the fattest thin man... Can’t make up my mind. Think I’ll eat a Reese’s and cogitate on that for a bit.
