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wow - that's a lot of fibre esp for the calories! It's usually best to slowly increase fibre intake rather than increasing rapidly as it helps your body to process it efficiently. I generally an average 75g of fibre per day on a vegan diet averaging 2,100 cals a day and follow a low fat high carb diet. I've cut down on the amount of beans I eat and get fibre largely from veg, fruit, grains and potatoes. I eat a lot of potatoes. With beans I find it helps to soak them much longer and cook them for much longer that the usual recommendations and that does seem to temper the effects somewhat. You could try the yoga pose wind relieving pose https://www.yogaoutlet.com/blogs/guides/how-to-do-wind-relieving-pose-in-yoga

Week 2 Planning for week two is a little tricky as I have long travelling days Monday and Thursday and can't take kettlebells with me, so I either have to do these two workouts late at night before I go to bed or shift them to Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat. I prefer working out early mornings, so will see how I feel tomorrow. Sufferfest can be easily fitted in on Tues, Wed or Fri and fast either Monday or Thursday, planning to not do 2 this week. Really felt the difference in the KB workouts over the previous workouts I've followed, so really looking forward to seeing how I progress in reps, sets and weight over the next 5 weeks. Aim is to get to 10 sets and then up the weight and start at 5 sets again.

Week 1 update Travelling Wed to Friday, so had to get cycling in on Monday and Tuesday to hit my goals, as rarely possible to catch up at weekends. Monday 3rd June Goal 3: Fast from lunchtime Sunday to lunchtime Monday Goal 2: Sufferfest, Hell Hath no Fury. 75 minutes, with no PBs set, but a good hard workout Goal 1: Kettlebells 6 sets clean & press 16kg x 5 r/l, 6 sets renegade rows 16kg x 5 r/l Tuesday 4th June Goal 1: 5 sets double swings 16 + 20kg x 5, 5 sets double squats 16 + 20 kg, 2r 1l x TGU 16kg New sub goal : first attempt at double kettlebell work, made harder by having 2 different weights and rotating for each set. Just ordered another 16kg and 20kg along with my first 24kg, should arrive next week. Goal 2: Sufferfest, A very dark place. 54 minutes, again with no PBs set Wednesday 5th June Goal 3: Fast from Tuesday dinner to Wednesday dinner. Wasn't planning a second fast, but with travelling most of the day it was pretty easy to add another one Thursday 6th June Goal 1: Kettlebells 7 sets clean & press 16kg x 5 r/l, 7 sets renegade rows 16kg x 5 r/l Friday 7th June Goal 1: Kettlebells 10 sets swings 20kg x 10, 10 sets goblet squats 20 kg, 2 sets 10 x twists 20 kg Couldn't quite manage the double kettlebells, so increased number of sets instead. Progress report Goals 1 to 3 all nailed - yay! Goal 4, not going to weigh myself until the end of the challenge as have a tendency to get a little obsessive, so ignoring the scales seems like a good approach

This is my first post and first challenge on NF, but have been reading the articles and the forum for a while, so time to delurk.... I did write this before the challenge started and had a good first week, just a bit busy to get posting. Goals 1. 4 x kettlebell workouts per week, following this structure: http://tinyurl.com/qgx4tc9 2. 2 x Sufferfest workouts per week http://www.thesufferfest.com I'm not able to cycle outside at the moment, so this is the closest I can get 3. 1 x 24 hours fast per week, have been following EatStopEat for a few months now, apart from some breaks when life got in the way. During non fast days, eat more. 4. Increase weight from 62kg (9st 11, 137 lb) to 65 kg (10st 3, 143 lb). As a 38 year old, 1.79m tall chap, I'm perhaps a little on the light side. Eating wise I follow a vegetarian diet, similar to a macrobiotic diet, so eat very healthy, no processed or fast foods, no bread, cake, biscuits etc Since it's already the end of week 1, progress report to follow very shortly...