Which study? Ah, the one about raised catecholamine output.
Yes, intermittent fasting is truly fascinating stuff, esp. since it comes so naturally to me. I have less problems eating very little in only 2 meals a day thn I have eating 5-6 meals a day, which takes tons of time and always made me overeat. OTOH, I also don't have a problem eating over 4000 kcal once I start either.
It's totally weird to be finally seeing studies that you can even become healthier by fasting! Like reduced inflammation, which has my profound interest since my IgE levels are highish, resulting in allergy responses to all kinds of food that I'm not technically allergic to. Very frustrating!
So.. yesterday I just started eating at 6 pm except for the calorific coffee in the morning. And felt great!
The first time I read about IF was on Bodyrecomposition.com upon which I checked Michael Eades' blog at
www.proteinpower.com and read his article (somewhere in September). What I'm doing is not IF, but comes close. I definitely don't want to skip my late night meal(s) as when I do that, I can't sleep at all. Even now the difference can be staggering , like 6 hrs after a low day and 9 hrs after a high kcal day.
On minimum calorie intake: apparently there's a study that showed that the minimum amt of calories you can eat without losing LBM is
maintenance minus (31/0,454 * kg of fat on the body) . In my tables I've got another column for that one.
For me: 2248 - (18,3 x 31/0,454 = 1250) = 998 kcal.
I'll try this for a while as with just 2 meals it's quite feasible. Won't do a PSMF as the fats are vital for feeling OK and I don't see the reason whyI should stuff my face with protein only if my body needs fats and carbs to keep sane and nitrogen balance is achieved at only 0.8 g/kg BW. That's 52 grams protein for me. I'm 100% certain I didn't even hit that amount on average for many years! Muscles were just fine!
The advantage is that I can then take intake up to over my predicted expenditure on the training days.. as I still feel hungry at 2500 kcal and could easily have eaten 3000 kcal!
The leak is nasty.. we've called the rental company and they promised to fix it. They'll probably have lots of complaints.