81.5kg this morning.
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82kg this morningš
87.4, better than yesterday!
Height = 5ā 7ā / 1.7m
A bad rollercoaster of a month for meā¦
01/03/22 ā 13st 1.2lbs / 83.1 Kg ā BF 28.2%
10/03/22 ā 12st 13.6lbs / 82.4 Kg ā BF 27.7%
01/04/22 ā 13st 3.2lbs / 84.0 Kg ā BF 28.6%
Month = Gain of 2.0lbs / 0.9kg 
Unfortunately, the 10th March was the morning before a 4-day trip to Ireland for a wedding.
Where far too much eating and drinking started a rot for the rest of the month. 
Cheers, Paul. 
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81.45kg this morning
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Iāve lost a couple of cms according to the doctors machine so Iām down to 170 also! Shame a couple of kilos didnāt go with it.
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Iām thinking of giving this a crack - how do you dove tail it with training?
Iām not doing anything longer than 1.5-2h run or bike, most stuff is an hour or less. But some of those are quality sessions.
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If you are doing a session over 30 minutes then fuel for it a few hours before as normal. Fast when you can between sessions. Fasting for me is usually skipping breakfast and zero snacking.
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Itās the zero snacking thatās killing me at the moment.
And Iām not even snacking on healthy stuff. Iām going straight for the garbage - way too much chocolate at the minute
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I can do it if Iām eating properly, but randomly having lunch really late doesnāt help. Nothing in the house for dinner except hummus and pita bread last night, and no lunch material but for a kids cookieā¦today. Hmm. Looks like I need to take the food shopping under control but the Mrs wonāt let me. Maybe I can set up some backup meals hidden in the garage or something 
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+1
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I really want to try this but what about fuelling after a workout if you train very early? Missing breakfast wouldnāt be ideal.
I pretty much always train without eating before, every day I do at least 10km at 9am having not eaten since ~9pm the night before (and that is obviously just snacking, which I do without question) Also donāt eat at the end of that session, often not until the evening. When Iāve run up to 2 hours, thatās also generally been on nothing, cycling I take food, and maybe start eating it after a bit, but never bother before.
My weight has been pretty stable now between 4 hours running a week and nothing else and 20 hour training weeks, plenty of snacking, just essentially fasting until at least lunch time every day - of course that is because Iām simply not hungry. Today I did 14.5km including 2.5km pretty fast for me feeling shit with @BadAsh at parkrun, and I still havenāt eaten anything as just not been hungry yet.
When I was over 100kg, thatās when I was eating breakfast religiouslyā¦
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Iāll let @doka respond himself, but for me I realise there is a trade off between ideal training and losing body fat. As long as I can finish the workouts, Iām fine with not getting the maximum benefit from them until Iāve made progress.
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Iād say it depends it depends on the workout, if itās an easy jog or swim then you can go fine without eating, if its a tough session just forget the fasting on that occasion/day.
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I struggle if I donāt eat after a session, but I wonder how much of that is all in the mind?
Not sure I could do what @JibberJim does, but definitely worth trying not eating straight after easier sessions.
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There really doesnt have you be any rules, itās just good to have the power of fasting in your back pocket & make it work for your routine, espesially if your strughling with weight. Itās a sureel feeling to go 24hr with out any calories and not be in the slightest bit hungry
& feel strong but know your will feel hungry when you eat somthing. You can then understand how difficult snacking makes it for you to resist more snacking.
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An amount. But mostly I think itās about nutrition before the exercise. If you were well fed and watered prior to working out and not heading into a mealtime when you started the workout and you work pretty hard (but not killing yourself) then itās hard for your stomach to be really telling your mind that youāre hungry.
I think this can be the challenge with fasting.
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Ive done a fair bit of fasting in the past. Stop eating about 6-7pm then skip breakfast.
I used to be able to do decent workouts the next day and refuel later on. Would my recovery and energy be better straight away? Probably. But weightloss was my primary goal .
Im goi ng to start that again. I do like some eggs and toast in the morning before I the weights, but I need to shed fat, fast.
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I donāt generally eat before 11.00am -12.00 and Iām nearly always finished eating by 6.30.
I nearly always start out running with no food unless Iām planning a real long one or itās race morning. I do eat whilst running though at anything over 23-25km planned. Not particularly because I need to but because itās good fuelling practice.
Now and then I will have breakfast on the weekend but Iām more likely to do that when Iām back from an early doors long run.
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