I would love to have a hill like that near me. We are FLAT here.
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Here’s my hill. Absolute favorite part about living here. I can throw my weight vest on and climb. There’s a trail that takes me to top and then 20 acres of federal land
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I’ve been eating next to nothing on a weekend for breakfast and lunch (sometimes just a protein shake) so i can enjoy a massive family business and some dessert with the kids etc.
I’ve also started dropping my raisons as snacks (they are quite high calorie) and also cutting down the amount of milk as that’s also quite high calorie for the protein count.
I’m down at 98.9kg which i’m really happy with my progress but also feel very light. I’ve kept my arms size which is really good so looking good (if i say so myself). I went swimming with the kids on Saturday and had loads of people looking at me so felt quite good for the ego (or maybe the general standard of body for the population is so poor these days).
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When in doubt, eat more protein! This has actually been more about feeling full than hitting any goal numbers. I think we can do fine on the lower end of recommended intake, but I prefer more.
I’m loosely following @T3hPwnisher’s steak and eggs diet. I splurged this weekend and had my first beers since I finished dry January. I also ate a decent amount of mac n cheese and baked beans yesterday to splurge for the Super Bowl. I felt like absolute crap all night. Didn’t sleep worth a darn, and had a headache this morning. I need to remember this the next time I’m tempted. My drinking got so bad that this feeling was my normal and I thought it was okay. I legit thought “I don’t even get hungover.” Turns out, I was always hungover and just took it as my baseline. Good grief.
Back to intermittent fasting today - no food but I’ll allow myself a couple shakes like the Velocity Diet. I accidentally bought three racks of pork ribs instead of two for yesterday, so I have plenty of leftovers for dinner.
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I’ve been thinking about trying this after my next 5/3/1 cycle but I really don’t know if I have the dedication required. But then again, it’s only 28 days. We will see.
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I’m experimenting with this as well. I struggle with small meals, they simply make me more HANgry and get me to start counting down until the next feeding.
Instead of making all my meals small to create a deficit, I cut out lunch. I get to keep 80-90% of my bulk meal size for breakfast and dinner by skipping lunch. It’s less to pack to work, less meal prep and I don’t have to think about food for hours. I’m only one week in, but so far, I see this lasting all cut. Once I get past the first wave of hunger at noon (easily solved with black coffee, stole that one from you), it’s not bad.
My way isn’t standard fasting, but it allows me to eat breakfast and dinner with my husband and skip the meal I care the least about.
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Hell yeah! Skipping lunch has been such a positive lifestyle change for me. All the reasons you mentioned: total high speed/low drag. Also much easier on digestion.
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If you go that route, I’d strongly advise timing your “healthy solid meal” around your training window. Typically, one doesn’t use a performance based program with the Velocity Diet.
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I’m planning to change my training after the next cycle.
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If you’re still into kettlebelling, I always felt like the 10k swing challenge was made to be run alongside the Velocity Diet.
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I’ll check that out. I’m still trying to figure out what I’m gonna do. That’s part of the reason I’m doing another cycle of 5/3/1. I have no plan. Lol
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I definitely think there’s a misunderstanding broadly on small, frequent meals coming over from the bodybuilding community. There’s two circumstances here most of aren’t fitting:
- Big caloric load - just can’t fit your daily calories into fewer meals
- Hunger creation (vs. reduction) - you noted it, but this is a feature, rather than a bug, of the frequent feedings… if you need to eat up to gain, this helps you stay hungry
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I’m so glad you laid it out this way. That is definitely how I feel with it, but the inverse can be used. It’s all about the goal/phase you are in and leveraging the right tool at the time.
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I guess now I know why multiple small meals never worked for me. I always swore I was hungrier when I tried to do that. Lol. Turns out I was right.
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It’s why a lot of people feel fine (better?) on IF. We can go into cortisol and adrenaline and all that, but I’ve got to think just stabilizing blood sugar is the simplest answer
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Eye dentist used to do ‘Intermittent Fatting’ where he’d eat peanut butter throughout day. Low/No carb and it didn’t have the amino leucine either. Essentially satiates hunger.
Edit: superfluous statement
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I looked this up. 500 swings per day sounds unfun. But I’ll never know if I don’t try. There will have to be slight alterations for my abilities, but I think I can probably survive. Thanks for the suggestion.
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It is! You get in the… swing… of it by week 2, though.
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I see what you did there. Lol. I’m gonna do cycle 5 of my current program and then switch to this. It should be a horrible way to break up the monotony.
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That’s exciting to hear! Dan has written a lot about it on this site and his own. Various ways to approach it, to include slotting in some additional work in between the swings themselves. It’s pretty awesome for grip strength too.
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