2019 Fitness Adventures

[Brandwin]

Someone help me a bit as I am confused on CICO.


Trying to count calories, but I get different carloie allotment depending on where I look.

For instance - My Fitness Pal - 2lbs a week it says 1500

My Plate APP- 1448 will have my lose 1lb a week 1200 is 1.5

Search websites and it says 1348 for 1.5 lbs a week.

I don't want to over do it and go over. I seem to think counting calories a week is a bit better. As long as I don't go over a lot on a certain day.

Thanks!

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[AUChase]

My wife and I are starting intermittent fasting today. I wasn't that sold on it, but someone from this site's results convinced me to finally agree to it.

So we are just going with the basics. 8 hour window to eat between 10am-6pm. Since I'm going to school at night some week days after work It's going to require a bit more planning for dinner, but I'm hoping it will be worth it.

[loccdogg26]

I've been running for the past 15 years or so and I would love to run a few more races but these fees are getting ridiculous. I wish every one well in their fitness plans.

[DJ]

Quote: Originally Posted by loccdogg26

I've been running for the past 15 years or so and I would love to run a few more races but these fees are getting ridiculous. I wish every one well in their fitness plans.

Yeah, the race fees are steep these days. Doesn't help that most races no matter the distance hand out medals and gone are the days of 100% cotton shirts. The RNR at least offers a 50% discount if you enroll for the following year's race within 60 days.

Half Marathon is only 6 days away. Did my last long training run over the weekend, so now just a couple of shorter runs before the race.

[SuperBowlNachos]

16 days into no alcohol January and getting back to working out after being a lazy *** all of December. I wanted to start Couch to 5k just because I haven't ran long distance in 12 years, but said screw it cause of the weather and will hold off on that for a while. Was going to do that and Insanity Max 30 + weight lifting so just sticking with that and sprints in my backyard for now.

[Matt10]

Quote: Originally Posted by AUChase

My wife and I are starting intermittent fasting today. I wasn't that sold on it, but someone from this site's results convinced me to finally agree to it. So we are just going with the basics. 8 hour window to eat between 10am-6pm. Since I'm going to school at night some week days after work It's going to require a bit more planning for dinner, but I'm hoping it will be worth it.

Intermittent fasting is probably the best I've experienced.

Personally, I subscribe to the 5 bite diet by Dr. Al Lewis. 5 bites at 11 (lunch) and 5 bites at 6 pm (dinner); so the fasting portion goes from about 6:30 PM to 11 AM the next day - total of 16 hours.

I lost 30lbs from August to September of last year. Lose about 2lbs a day. Pretty straight forward.

The best part is I can eat whatever I want, I think that's the benefit of intermittent fasting in general.

[AUChase]

Quote: Originally Posted by Matt10

Intermittent fasting is probably the best I've experienced. Personally, I subscribe to the 5 bite diet by Dr. Al Lewis. 5 bites at 11 (lunch) and 5 bites at 6 pm (dinner); so the fasting portion goes from about 6:30 PM to 11 AM the next day - total of 16 hours. I lost 30lbs from August to September of last year. Lose about 2lbs a day. Pretty straight forward. The best part is I can eat whatever I want, I think that's the benefit of intermittent fasting in general.

So far the hardest part for me is stomping out those late night cravings and getting up at 4:30 to go to the gym makes me hungry pretty early in the morning 8-ish.

[KG]

Quote: Originally Posted by AUChase

My wife and I are starting intermittent fasting today. I wasn't that sold on it, but someone from this site's results convinced me to finally agree to it. So we are just going with the basics. 8 hour window to eat between 10am-6pm. Since I'm going to school at night some week days after work It's going to require a bit more planning for dinner, but I'm hoping it will be worth it.

Your body will quickly adjust to it, most likely around 2 weeks.

I did 12-8 over the summer/fall and I lost about 5 lbs which doesn't say a lot but I was only 175ish and losing those 5 lbs made me get cut. I still do IF but lately I've been snacking at night to offset the fact that I've been working out like crazy but like Matt said, you don't really need to watch what you're eating that closely but of course, better food = better results.

I actually really enjoy my workouts during my morning fast. I've noticed I sweat more and my focus is better.