Fasted from 3:30pm yesterday until 8am this morning. I’ve done intermittent fasting (IF) before but this is the first time I’ve tried it during the Whole30. There’s a number of benefits to IF but I like the concept for a number of different reasons:
1. It’s good to remind yourself what it’s actually like to be hungry – I eat so much food all the time that it’s easy to forget what it feels like to be hungry. When I fast (and they’re only little 16 hour fasts) I get to feel that aching, empty feeling again. When was the last time you were really hungry? No I mean so hungry it hurts – I bet you can’t even remember…
2. The mental edge – When I fast I find that my mind is clearer – I have more focus. I mean you’ve got to be pretty darn strict with yourself to say that my last meal for the day will be [blah] and then I’m not going to eat again until [blah] – The benefit of doing a small 16 hour fast is that (if you do it in the afternoon) most of it is spent asleep. You might feel like your missing when every one else is eating dinner out but I’m also reminded how blessed I am by things like electricity and groceries and a roof over my head and that I’m not missing out at all – skipping a meal to engage in conversation with the family is not missing out.
If you’ve never heard of Intermittent Fasting, you can find out more via:
- Precision Nutrition: All about Intermittent Fasting in under 10 minutes; and
- Nerd Fitness has: A beginners guide to intermittent fasting
Training and Food
4:45am – Becca’s alarm went off – she’s was running the Thursday AM sessions for me – took me a while to get back to sleep with her thrashing about and all
7am – wake – proper
7:30am – coffee – double shot espresso
8:15am – breakfast (break 16 hour fast – tried IF yesterday starting at 3:50pm) – beef meatballs + scrambled eggs + broccoli, carrots and sweet potato + almond butter
9:30am – chiro – went to see Sam to see if he could sort out my lower back and neck (they’ve been feeling pretty jammed up for a while)
10:30am – coffee – long black pour over
11:30am – thr1ve large salted caramel smoothies
12:30pm – tomato salsa with crushed avocado + 2 poached eggs + bacon + mushies
2:15pm – half a jar of almond butter
4:45pm – coffee – double shot espresso
5pm – team strength and conditioning with west Belconnen leagues under 15s
6pm – train – was supposed to be a rest day but after watching the 10am session today I just had to have a go. Also Madelyn was pretty keen to train so we trained together. Happy times!
A: 3 min ME plate burpees
2 min ME power snatches @ 45/30kg
// rest 5 min; then
B: 3 min ME plate burpees
2 min ME shoulder to OH @ 45/30kg (anyhow – eg. press, p-press, p-jerk)
// rest 5 min; then
C: 5 min AMRAP:
5 bar muscle-ups
10 pistols
Results:
Ben
A: 36 burpees / 20 power snatches @ 50kg
B: 38 burpees / 30 shoulder to OH @ 50kg
C: 4 rounds on the dot (bar MUs UB in 1st round, set of 4 in the 2nd (failed the fifth rep) and then went to singles)
Madelyn:
A: 28 burpees / 12 snatches @ 20kg
B: 30 burpees / 22 shoulder to OH @ 20kg
C: 3 rounds + 5 pull-ups (partner assisted pistols)
7pm – post WOD refuel – banana and coconut water
7:30pm – dinner – sweet potato wedges + beef meatballs + baked brussel sprouts + almond butter
8.30pm – watch Transcendence (super rad movie – well i Liked it anyway
10:30pm – filling out my blog (I’m down 2 days and had to get it out)
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