Self Experiment: Intermittent Fasting
Today is my first day of my time off from work. I actually don’t have any particular plan for taking 3 days off from work this week but it’s just something that I need to take in order not to lose my floating holidays (I have 4 this year and used 2 already for this with half day PTO and I will have 2 more to use for the rest of this year).
It’s been so HOT lately and I couldn’t help not to turn on the AC in the evening for about an hour to ward off the stuffiness in the house for a bit. I can’t sleep in a stuffy room.
During weekend I sun bathing for around 30 minutes to utilize more Vitamin D. 🙂
Workout wise, so far so good. I started to see some progress, especially my arms:
Eats also have been great.
Other new stuff that’s been going on, earlier this week, I experimented a bit with Intermittent Fasting (IF) just to change things up a bit, but in the end I don’t think IF agrees with me.
Here how I started: I tried to experiment with 10 hour window eating. I usually get up around 4am, working out and usually done by 5:00am. Then after shower and getting ready, it wil be around 5:30am, which will be the perfect time to have my first meal. If using 10 hour window eating, that means my last meal will be around 3-3:30pm. My breakfast was awesome. It kept me full all the way until lunchtime (noon-1pm). Then the problem started when I didn’t feel like to eat at 3-3:30pm since I wasn’t hungry yet. I tried to skip the third meal, but in the end I felt so hungry so I actually had to eat my third meal around 6pm.
Not to mention, when I tried to do IF, I suddenly became more obsessed with food. My brain kept asking: when am I going to eat next? What is the time? Is the eating window almost over?
Well maybe I didn’t do it right. There are some studies mentioning how IF isn’t beneficial to women compare to men but I am still curious if this will work for me in the end. (Big thanks to Tara Wyton for sharing the article on my Facebook page).
However, today I only had 2 meals. One in the late morning around 10:00 am (sort of my breakfast/post WO meal)
Then I got sucked into Facebooking, web surfing etc that I almost forgot I supposed to splurge myself a bit by buying new shoes and clothing! 🙂
My DSW shoe haul
I also got a nail polish, mainly just for my toes as I usually wash and clean stuff a lot so it’ll be such a waste to put on my finger nails. I usually don’t color my toes or nails ever but today I felt kinda like it.
In the end, no clothing yet since my stomach started to growl so I had to head back home and had my second meal (lunch/dinner)
Tomorrow I’ll see how I feel after I got up. Usually I don’t feeling super hungry when getting up in the morning, because I usually eat dinner 1 hour before I go to bed, which might not be a good thing. So this time I ate around 3-4 hours before going to bed.
What self experiment have you done and how do you feel about it?
I like to shop for shoes more than clothing because it’s just way easier and faster. How about you?
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I sometimes fast unintentionally because my breakfast can carry me until late in the afternoon. Yesterday I ate around 9 am and didn’t have “lunch” until about 4:30 pm. I figured if I wasn’t hungry there was no point in eating! I did a whole 30 this summer as was eating 1-2 pieces of fruit and maybe a sweet potato each day, but after I was done I decided to do very low carb and stopped losing weight through July and August. I’m still on a plateau, but I just read an article about how VLW, calories restriction, and exercise can stress a female’s body, so maybe that’s why I stalled. I upped my carbs over the last couple of days slowly to eat about 100 g/day, and I will see what happens 🙂
http://www.paleoforwomen.com/carbohydrates-for-fertility-and-health/
I esily get obsessed too when I start planning when to eat and more particularly when *not* to eat. It’s easier for me to just eat when I’m hungry, and it turned out my body has some kind of “routine” with that, +/- two hours or so of flexibility. I don’t eat a solid breakfast but drink tea with almond milk and then have lunch later, so I kind of do some fasting during the night and morning, but it’s not planned. I just don’t like breakfast. 😀
For some reason, I am just not that hungry in the mornings. I usually exercise before breakfast. I have more energy on an empty stomach. It did take some getting use to, but now its regular for me. Plus, its suppose to burn more fat….always a good thing. Love your posts! And your eats. Yum.
I also exercise in empty stomach as well 🙂 and morning is always the best to do. Agree that it takes time to get used to it. Thanks for reading 🙂
cute shoes! i like the white ones in the middle a lot 🙂 i usually IF on the weekends since i never wake up hungry. i often go 16-20hrs from my previous night’s meal. i like to work out and then go grocery shopping and eat when i get back home on saturday. sunday i usually wake late and then have some coffee or tea and blog for a bit before eating.
I just recently tried a vegan week. I wanted to know how hard it is. I knew from the beginning, that I will only want to last a week bc I believe that we are not meant to be vegan. – yet alone, nutrients are missing. However, it was a great experience and I felt great.
If we are not meant to be vegan, then why did you feel great? Did you give that a thougt?