Josh_C

I kind of assumed this would be the general reaction. I train in the morning, so at that point I've only been fasting for about 9 hours. I need to move my schedule around in order to train at the end of my fasting window. I think I'll make that change before doing any training at the tail of a 24 hour fast. Based on the podcast, he seems to advocate fasting in general and not so much fasting timed with lifting, as LG advocates.

Some food for thought: I was listening to a podcast this morning, and the guy was interviewing Brad Pilon, author of Eat.Stop.Eat. I have the book on my "to read" list, after I finish the three I'm currently on. But in the podcast he advocates a 24 hour fast once or twice a week. Nothing new there. But my question is this: has anyone tried working out after fasting 24 hours? Was it horrible? How about doing it multiple times a week? I don't see how you could fit in all the eating necessary.

Welcome EmlyAnne! Can you provide a little more info? How much do you weigh now? Where are your calories coming from? What is your current BF%?

On Tuesday I did 4 fartleks over two miles. Great run! I've been so busy I haven't had time to update until now. Guerrilla warfare for the win!

Interesting stuff aj_rock. It makes sense to the extent I can follow it. This would really extend the length of my workouts, so it might be a one-week-a-month or one day a week type of thing. Like a little icing on the cake to help with the progress I've seen from "heavy" lifting + LG (although those results have taken a serious step back after my weekend of gluttony). But still worth trying out, even if I'm 50% excited by the prospect of better results and 50% dreading the idea of fasted HIIT.

Any suggestions for where to get a good blender bottle/a good brand? Does it really matter?

I like the idea of all of these. I really like the idea of greek yogurt. But I seem to be the only one in the world who doesn't like it/almost vomits from trying to eat it.

Me too! But a good kind of worn out.

Yeah, this is a great tip. I've been working on chin-ups with some negatives. Negatives are a bit awkward at my gym because of the placement of the pullup bar, but I make do.

Day 1 (Monday) was a success. Hit the gym and did some squats along with other misc. exercises.Also stayed within my eating window no problemo!

Great challenges! I love when gyms have incentives like that. It makes it more fun. Plus, who doesn't love free stuff?

These are some great goals. I also admittedly hate flossing.

Great goals! Seems like lots of scouts are going for pullups and chinups this challenge. No easy feat for any of us I'm assuming.

Welcome to NF! Do they actually make you know latin words? That is brutal. Even the bar exam didn't really require knowing the latin.

Great goals! I'm jealous that you have a study.

Yikes. I don't like it, but I appreciate the warning.

What kind of training calendar? How many days a week are you working out? Sound like some good goals here. What's The Superman Project?

These are great quantifiable goals. It seems like you can do a ton of knee pushups. Have you considered moving to regular pushups? I'm guessing with 42 knee pushups and the ability to plank for over a minute, you should be able to bang some regular ones out.

These sound like great goals! Except the books, which, to me, sound super boring. But I'm just a different kind of nerd :-)

I think anyone can agree that the hardest part of a healthy lifestyle is when you have to deviate from your plan. This summer, from looking at my calendar, it seems that I'm going to be deviating from my normal routine quite a bit. Just in this 6 week period I have the following things already scheduled: A weekend in Atlantic City A wedding in Boston A fondue party A pig roast A weekend trip to visit my girlfriend's family A lawyer's retreat at some resort in Maryland On top of that, I will be leaving my job at the end of July to start full time at my law firm. So, in addition to an irregular schedule, I will be dealing with additional stress as I face the prospect of epically failing at running a business. Luckily my partner is a great businessman, so I'm leaving most of that to him. Nonetheless, it should be an exciting several weeks. But there is still much to be done! I have yet to reach my fitness goals (and really, do we ever meet the goals?). So I must continue to push myself. The fitness posts are pretty self explanatory. Slightly "easier" goals this time around due to all the stuff going on. Eating within my window hasn't been much of an issue, besides Sunday. But I'm not sure how easy it will be with all the things going on this summer. As for the Lawyerist posts, I need to push myself there as well. I've been working on some longer posts, like around 2,000-3,000 words as opposed to 500-1,000. I need to wrap those up. One is pretty doable, but two will be pushing myself. But that's what it's all about. [TABLE=width: 500] Name: Josh_C [/TD] Race: Human Class: Scout Attributes: Strength (STR) 4 Dexterity (DEX) 3 Stamina (STA) 5 Constitution (CON) 5 Wisdom (WIS) 6 Charisma (CHA) 5 Total 28 Goals (June 18-July 30) Points Attributes Diet & Fitness: Lose 5 pounds 3 CON 2 CHA Squat and deadlift (separately) once a week 2 STR 2 STA Eat within eating window 6 days a week 3 STR Lifestyle: Finish two "long" posts for Lawyerist 3 WIS Bonus!: Spend 8 hours a week on law firm activities Spend 15 minutes doing some kind of cleaning each day [TD] [/TABLE]

My thought, and I'm sure Scott and Catspaw will chime in, is maintenance calories. The idea of rest day calories is that you are balancing a deficit with a surplus (and then keeping the deficit/surplus within a range to promote your goals, like weight loss, recomp, etc). Thus extended "rest" day calories could leave you really caloricically deprived and potentially cranky.

Despite my posting from an hour ago, just went out to lunch and got pizza. It's a workout day so I probably went a bit over on fat, but I'm just having chicken for dinner so I'm not too concerned. But obviously not enough protein. My vegan coworker walked in immediately after we got back from lunch and I was sitting down to second lunch. [ATTACH]3894[/ATTACH]

It just takes dedication. If you want to do it, I'm confident that you can do it. Let's take tonight as an example. You're going out to a burger joint. Sweet! If it's a rest day ("high" fat, high protein, low carb) then you're in luck. Ditch the bun and fork over an extra $2.50 for a house salad (ridiculous what restaurants charge for a salad) with no croutons. Lots of good burgers in the signature series. Not sure what your macros look like, but if you need less fat than the half pound of sirloin, they let you sub in a turkey burger it looks like. So, what I would do is pop over to MFP and log it in. Don't kill yourself if you go a tad over on your fat. Just do your best. Once you've pre-logged your meal, you know what you can/will/should eat for the remainder of your eating window. Then just sort that part out accordingly. If today is a lifting day (high carb/high protein/low fat) then this gets a bit trickier, but it's still doable. First off, sub chicken for the burger. Get some chili. Maybe do the black and blue burger, no blue cheese? The trick, I've found, to eating within a maco range is to plan ahead. You won't be able to get to an exact macro match, but we all just do our best.

+2 But it won't stop me from giving my law partner a hard time when he is eating tofurkey and I'm eating a hamburger. That's just good ol' fashion fun.

Agreed. The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of one huge thread. I think the downside to individual threads is that people wouldn't bother to read what's already written, so it ends up with a dozen threads where the more experienced IF folks are answering the same questions over and over.