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Day 5 of a planned 5 days of ‘no solid food’ fasting
Day 8 of 14 days of the "Challenge" with @SharonsVictory: No 'Binging' (more than 100 carbs) for two weeks
Yesterday I went to the 🏋🏾♂️ gym an ‘lifted heavy’. I hit the Slim-Fast Keto Shake (4 carbs / 190 calories) hard all day to ‘carb up’ a bit to provide as much glycogen as I could to help lift the weights.
After the weight lifting, my glycogen is majorly depleted, and the associated water weight with it (see: “Losing Water Weight: How Carbs Really Work” https://8fit.com/fitness/glycogen-depletion-signs-symptoms-and-working-out/).
This is why I get such a huge movement in the scale even though I am only lifting weights for 30 minutes 😜.
The key for me, especially this week, was to keep the carbs low. My body is forced convert some stored body fat to glucose and then to glycogen for use in my muscles. This is what I want 😉.
What I find fascinating is how I now have my calories up to around 1300-1500 per day and I am getting the same, 1-2 pound a day weight loss as I did when I was 'water fasting' at 100-300 per day. This shows me that, for me, it is the macros not the calorie calculation that matters. Yes, reducing calories *will* cause weight loss, but, it is the reduction in the macros that causes my body (I can't speak to *your* body) to lose fat.
I plan to do a 🏃🏾♂️ run this morning in my ‘depleted state’. Forcing my body to convert more fat to glucose using gluconeogenesis. I also keep in mind that excess protein is also used in this process so that is why I try to keep my protein under 100g on most days. This is why I stated incorporating the Slim-Fast Keto Shake in my 'no solid food fast' because it only has 5g of protein.
I had hoped to hit 167lbs by Saturday, so it looks like I am a day early 👍🏾
If I only gain 4 pounds over the weekend I would be 171lbs on Monday. So, sticking to my normal schedule (losing 5 pounds), I would be 166lbs by next Saturday…
😎 Life is Good! Have a great day everyone!
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75.7 kg
Lost so far: 18.1 kg.
Still to go: 1.4 kg.
Diet followed: 100%.
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2150 kcal
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Fat: 132.00g | Prot: 116.00g | Carbs: 110.50g.
Breakfast: Quest Vanilla Milkshake Protein Powder, Land O'Lakes Heavy Whipping Cream, Quest Vanilla Milkshake Protein Powder, Land O'Lakes Heavy Whipping Cream. Dinner: PizzaRev CauliPOWER Pizza. Snacks/Other: Quest Tortilla Style Protein Chips Nacho Cheese, Marukome Miso Soup Freeze Dried Tofu, Slim-Fast Keto Shake, Land O'Lakes Heavy Whipping Cream, Slim-Fast Keto Shake, Quest Vanilla Milkshake Protein Powder, Land O'Lakes Heavy Whipping Cream. more...
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2630 kcal
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Exercise:
Walking (slow) - 3/kph - 30 minutes, Running - 10/kph - 50 minutes, Walking (exercise) - 5.5/kph - 40 minutes, Resting - 14 hours, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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Losing 9.5 kg a Week
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