80.1kg down from 80.7kg last week (and 81.4kg the week before).
Sorry I didn’t immediately reply @Mungo2 & @The_Iain , thanks for your comments.
So far both approaches (16/8 & 5/2) going OK. The aim it to try and find my ideal running weight, which I’m hoping I’ll find around 75-76kg. Earlier in the year I think I was about 78kg when setting a load of PBs.
16/8 I’m thinking that this possibly will be my longer term approach, once the initial weight is lost.
I’ve generally lasted until at least 11am before eating, and it’s not been too much of an effort. I almost got caught out on the first day, time ran away with me after a track session and I only just showered, cooked & ate before my 8pm deadline.
I think it has introduced some good behaviours, such as querying whether I really need that snack/sweet during my allowed 8 hour window, but at the same time has caused me to properly pig out on a couple of occasions.
5/2 I see this as being a temporary diet to lose the initial weight, and hopefully within around 6 weeks I can start to drop this and just do 16/8 (or maybe change 5/2 to 6/1).
I’m on my 3rd fast day, having fasted last Wednesday & Sunday. I think I need to do a bit more research and planning here to get the best out of my 600 calories. I think I made a few calculation errors on the first day and went a bit over. At one point I thought I was going to be able to squeeze in a small dessert and then I recalculated and realised I was probably over.
Poached eggs have become a bit of a staple for these days. I haven’t mastered the technique, they completely fall apart in the pan.
By the end of the evening I have been feeling hungry, but not ravenous.
Overall Late night snacking has been eliminated and I was doing way too much of it. I think as an indirect benefit I’m actually going to bed/sleep a bit earlier too, as I was almost staying up to snack, and now I’m perhaps I try to go to sleep to avoid feeling hungry (on the 2 fasted days anyway). Still work to do there, but been getting almost 7 hours sleep which is good for me. Have started to try and wear my watch 24/7 to track.
