staying strong for this week.
Day 15/30
Bris Fastmas calendar
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day 19/30
Today is a fasting day.
A little update on my week â I had a few highs and lows in terms of progress this week.
On Monday I had what I would consider to be my best fasting day yet. I didnât use a crutch at all. But, a headache that I started to have Monday night continued in a low key but persistent and annoying way until Wednesday night. I had caffeine because I am still drinking coffee on my fasting days so it may be due to lack of some kind of sweetener that I wasnât having this time ( I usually also let myself have diet cokes (aspartame) and this crystal lite tea (Maltitol) on fasting days if I want them â this was my first fasting day strictly without both.
Tuesday I paid for it and maybe in part due to the fact of my disappointment that the scale only showed me as loosing one measly pound, but also in part to the headache and also perhaps in part to work not being very busy, I overate Tuesday, really I stopped counting a while after I got to 1.5 times my TDEE.
Today on my fasting day I am finally feeling normal again, and I am going to allow myself a crutch again of egg drop soup after the 20 hour mark. I am also allowing myself the diet cokes and the crystal lite tea in moderation.
This ADF challenge has been a lot less successful than my first attempt in October, but I feel okay with that. As @Yasemin says the best type of fasting for me is going to be something that I can maintain long term for my lifestyle.
I have started being more interested in OMAD lately. I watched a video on youtube where a girl did OMAD for 30 days and lost a little over 10 lbs and she is smaller than I am now. But, I think going into it for loosing weight isnât the right reason for doing it. I think I would want to do it because I am more interested in resetting my appetite to only be hungry at dinner time. That way, I think it would be âno biggieâ to skip that meal some days of the week, making my schedule be one meal every other day while loosing weight. Ultimately I think that ADF is what I want to be doing, I keep coming back to it, but perhaps I am not confident enough yet to be living it out fully yet.
heres a link to the video blog I mentioned
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Yes, I love OMAD.
My tentative maintenance plan, after finishing my current project on 6/13 and reaching goal, is to revert back to that lifestyle. For me OMAD frees up time and motivates me to be a better cook with only having to prepare one meal a day. It didnât take me long to adapt to it.
Day 20/30
Something Iâve been thinking about over the last day:
- Yesterday, I was listening to an IF podcast where they were talking about the relationship between body temperature and metabolic rate. I am very curious about learning more about metabolic rate and how different hormones influence our metabolism. The format of the podcast was a listener who was asking the hosts about feeling cold, and wondering if IF was lowering her body temp. The hosts brought up the contradicting evidence that now exists:
a.there is some evidence that a higher body temperature is correlated to a higher metabolism (which makes sense, your body is using energy to keep you warm, and the warmer you are, the more fuel that is burning?)
b. Theres also evidence though that a lower body temperature is correlated to burning fat as an energy source
One other interesting fact that they brought up is that physicians apparently used to diagnose someone with hypothyroidism by their body temperature (lower average body temp= hypo/ high average body temp = hyper) Thatâs sooo interesting to me.
Heres a medical article they brought up. Lots of language I dont understand in there â perhaps others reading this could give me their 2 cents?
There is another theory explored by Dr Benjamin Bikman of BYU. We have 2 types of adipose cells, white and brown. The brown cells are the more numerous at birth and as babies convert to heat that keeps us from shivering as babies. With growth the white cells soon outnumber the brown cells which still remain in our upper abdominal region.
What Dr Bikman has found in his human studies is during ketosis, white cells begin transforming into brown-like cells meaning they start converting fat into heat which helps burn off the fat. Itâs one of the reasons why you hear of cold therapy being effective in fat loss and why the Scandinavian practice of sauna then immersing themselves in snow is effective in keeping the fat off.
I lost my first 40+ lbs on OMAD + low carb/keto 
itâs the most sustainable lifestyle in my opinion, and extended fasts or longer fasts are good to push weight down more!!
If you do OMAD + low carb/keto + eat at a small caloric deficit youâll do amazing!!