thanks for commenting and congrats on your amazing results.

you’re an inspiration for sure.

Just to add my 2 pennies worth (I am in the UK after all!), I think Intermittent Fasting is the best thing since sliced bread (which I don’t really like, much prefer to make my own from freshly ground grain).

I have been following the Leangains approach to IF and have got some pretty decent results so far. I am going to post some pics next week, by that point I will have been doing IF for 6 months, and have had a good learning curve. You certainly have to manipulate your diet, as with any other fat loss program, but I have found it both easier and more enjoyable to cut calories when fasting than when doing, say, Keto.

In addition to it cutting my fat off, I have increased my lifts over the last 6 months, to the point this week where I have been setting new PB’s in a few lifts!

You can read about my results here if you want
http://blog.superbootcamps.co.uk/2011/intermittent-fasting/intermittent-fasting-results-guide/

Keep up the good work,
George

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That brown rice pulao you described sounds fantastic. I haven’t a good indian meal in far too long. Thanks for the reminder;)

Many solid points in your comment. I especially enjoy the point about not having to worry about food during a fast. No decisions necessary. Is this a good/bad carb? How much sodium is in this? And so forth…

Mike

You hit the nail on the head when you said that one of the things which makes this an easy to follow approach is that it’s so simple! For a couple of days every week, I simply don’t need to think about food. I don’t need to make food choices and worry about whether I’m making the wrong choices or not. I get to work through my lunch hour and get home earlier… I could go on!

Have I lost muscle mass? Perhaps, but before I decided to do this, I rationalised that losing a little muscle and a LOT of fat was a worthwhile trade-off. However, the facts are these:
1) Even under semi-starvation diets, typical ratios of fat to lean body mass loss are well over 5 to 1 (i.e., you lose 5 times for fat than muscle)
2) Larger people (even fatter people) tend to have larger muscles than thinner people (STATISTICAL AVERAGE). Therefore, if you’re 30 pounds lighter, it stands to reason that you need less muscle to haul yourself around…

In fact, as an illustration of the 2nd point, even if I have lost a bit of muscle, my reduction in weight now means that I am running a 5k well over 2 minutes faster than before I lost the weight…

Anyway, if anyone’s interested, I’ve got more about my experience of intermittent fasting on my blog under the “Losing Weight” tab, and I’m also posting my daily weight – you can even see a graph of my weight every day since I started intermittent fasting.

Bottom line – it works for me.

In fact fasting does not “kill muscle”, in fact if you are lifting weights 2-3 times per week you will still maintain and often build muscle even if you are fasting once a week. Also, by fasting we’re not talking about Ghandi type fasts here. We mean 24 hour fasting.

As we mention at the end ofthe article, I highly recommend you take a look at our review of Brad Pilon’s Eat Stop Eat program. Then when you’re a little more informed on the topic, come back and let’s chat.

thanks for the comment.

Muscle burns fat, fasting kills muscle, when you eat, you gain fat without muscle. fasting actually increases your body fat (IRONY!)

Look into a different diet like say the keto diet, combine it with HIIT and full body exercises. just try it out once, see how it goes.