Another slight change in plans. I've noted previously that:
1. My plan for this (final!) round of weight loss was to do 36:12 fasting (ADF), but I wasn't seeing clear weight loss after each subsequent fast, and didn't want to be wasting effort or prolonging my weight loss, a particular risk without counting calories, even with fasting involved.
2. So I made a rule that if I wasn't lighter at the putative end of my current fast than after the previous fast, I would add 24h to the length of the current fast, which, according to the numbers on the scale, was shaping up to mean that I would be on a continuous 60:12 fasting schedule.
3. However, a couple of times on the day after an eating day, I found myself breaking what I had expected to be a 60h fast (or, with luck, a 36h fast) at about the 24h mark, without having yet weighed in lighter. I'd get (and give in to) the overwhelming urge to have a little snack, and then, no matter how disciplined I'd intended to be, the floodgates would fly open.
I was okay with the early fast-breaking overall (I want to stay flexible on this health journey and not stress over it too much, which would be counterproductive), but it required me to start the 60h over -- not for the sake of merely forcing myself through an unbroken 60h, but for the sake of abiding by my weight-loss rule and actually moving the scale with the fast, to ensure I was progressing and not wasting time and effort. I was then happily surprised to find the next 60h of fasting to be much easier, after the initial unintended break.
Currently:
For a third time, I broke a fast at 24h, turning a third consecutive two- or three-day cycle into a four-day cycle, and I've decided to lean into it. It seems that my body wants two days of eating between 60h fasts, so my "official" new routine will be 2:2, i.e. alternating two days of fasting with two days of eating, with a bit of a taper on the second eating day. Theoretically I'll still extend my fast even after 60h if I don't see a drop, but if things go as they have been, I won't need to.
Alternating on a 2d:2d schedule instead of my original 1d:1d (36h:12h) schedule shouldn't be all that different in terms of average calorie intake. However, so far I do tend to eat less on the second eating day, and also two days of fasting allows more time for glycogen depletion and for voiding of waste, so the comparison of my weights after each 2d fast is presumably more accurate, because the most likely confounding factors are more completely shed away.
So, so far so good, and we'll see what the future holds with this new plan.
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88.2 公斤
最近减少: 7.1 公斤.
还有: 9.7 公斤.
饮食准则: 合理的.
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一个星期减少1.3 公斤
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