Fatty 1 – Week 7
Posted by actingchick on June 10, 2009
I am down about a half-pound to a pound. The weight is coming off slow and steady. I’ve kept up with the fasting pretty well. My eating window is a little larger. I was trying to go for the Fast-5 type eating window, which is 19 hours of not eating, and 5 hours of eating. I never really get to that. I aim for 2pm to 8 pm, which is 6 hours, but it often can be 1pm to 8pm, or 2pm to 9pm.
Sometimes it is even 1pm to 9pm, which is 8 hours of eating and 16 of fasting, which is closer to the Warrior Diet and Leangains programs. I toy also with switching to the Eat Stop Eat plan, but I haven’t yet. Maybe when I’m done with school.
In any case, it seems to still be working despite my laxity. I’ve also pretty much been sticking with the Paleo diet. I’ve had the odd hamburger bun here and there, and I went to a Godfather movie watching dinner party, where of course we had to have Italian food. I ate pasta with my meatballs, and a few brownies, which I don’t think were Italian, but oh well.
I also tried an experiment this last week. I ran a 5k fasted. I was about 13 hours into the fast. It was only my second 5K, so I don’t have a lot of experience to compare running fasted and not. It was hard running fasted, but not any harder than running having eaten. Running is hard for me because I am a new runner, and let’s face it running is hard. My time was one minute faster running fasted than not, so I can certainly say it didn’t hamper me any.
After the 5K, it ended up being another hour or two until I got to eat. I wasn’t actually hungry after working out, which I find to be pretty normal. In fact it took about an hour before I got hungry. Then I did start getting really hungry. I did have a pancake and half a cinnamon roll, which I felt I deserved after running. If I was going to have carbs that was the best time to have them.
I’m going to be running another 5K in a couple of weeks. I will run that fasted again, so I will have another opportunity to compare.
Runner bean said
You are doing so well! I love the fact that you are just learning about yourself. You are using other people’s plans but tweaking them to suit you. I should take a leaf out your book because I too often think the minute I say have a food that I shouldn’t I should just give up. But you don’t you embrace the fact you can treat yourself without going of track! Well done and keep up the great work!
actingchick said
Thanks. Things are going well, so it is easier to give myself some slack. I suppose if things weren’t going well, then I might be beating myself up, but I guess then it might be appropriate since I wasn’t getting the results I wanted. But I am enjoying that I can be mostly good, and not beat myself up for the cookie I ate today, oh yeah and that ice cream cone I had too. : )
Susan said
Thank you, Thank you for posting your weekly results using an intermittent fasting program. I’ve been a total slave to eating every three hours, cooking all the time and lugging around my Tupperware…..I’m going to try Fast 5 beginning today. I need a change.
Are there pictures of your progress?
actingchick said
I don’t have pictures yet. I need to take some. I have some before pictures, and for the contest my gym just had, they took before and after pictures, so I’m going to ask for copies of them, so I can see what I look like now. I have definitely lost some around the middle, because now I am regularly using the next smaller belt hole on my belt, so that’s at least an inch and a half. Starting out is a little hard, but I have pretty much adapted now, and I allow myself some flexibility. Good luck with the fasting!