Intermittent Fasting and Insanity.

My weekend was a food-for-all. On Friday we celebrated my son’s7th birthday with way too much pizza and too many cupcakes. Saturday was homemade chili which again I had way too much of. With the weekend culminating Sunday night with yet another party with too much food and good company. All told I woke up this morning to 191lbs on the scale. I started the weekend at 183lbs. I don’t regret the weekend one bit I enjoyed good food and being surrounded by family and friends celebrating milestones. Had I been following a strict calorie restriction diet I’d be kicking myself in the butt for not having the willpower to resist all the food and deserts that were available to me this weekend. Enter Intermittent Fasting, last night after my slice of cake around 8pm I took a break from eating until 7pm tonight when I sat down to dinner with Jen. I did all my normal activities except eat any food. I had a cup of coffee this morning black, and a diet Coke later in the day around 4pm other than that the only thing I drank was water. My Insanity workout was great I had tons of energy to get through the entire workout in fact I had more energy today than on regular days even though I worked out later in the day than normal. I was 18 hours into my fast. Most days because of my schedule and how I normally eat I have a 14 hour window that I do not eat during. It goes from 10pm until noon the next day which is my usual workout time so I don’t eat till around 2-3 pm for my first meal.

I’ve been following IF since the fall of 2008 when I found Brad Pilon’s Eat stop Eat. It has been the cornerstone of my diet plan that has helped me loose 60+ pounds and to stop obsessive compulsive eating. The information Brad puts out is well thought out and backed by tons of research. I highly recommend his blog if you have any questions about IF that I can’t answer I’m sure Brad can. After all he did do his graduate work on fasting and its effects on the human body.

If you have questions about how you can use IF with your current workout program or how it might tie into one of the many Beachbody workout programs let me know how I can help.