Intermittent Fasting is THE SHIT!

[Macrofitter]

I try to fast 14-16 hours per day these days. In a span of 8-10 hours I eat pretty much whatever I want. Don't count Macros, don't count calories. I'm never hungry and at my leanest ever year round without any cravings, plus super-fit and active.

Best diet approach ever for Nattys - give it a try, thank me later!

[Nether Animal]

I've been doing it since September. It worked great for a while but it seems like your body adapts and it eventually becomes quite possible to gain fat while on it.

[tom joad]

IF works nicely for me.  I'm not strictly rigid about it, but generally eating between noon & 8:00 pm usually fits my daily life perfectly.  

Also, I always used to train later in the day (early evening) with a few meals in me ... but i'm a fairly recent convert to training fasted in the AM before B-fast and am digging it.

[ratherbebig]

so its basically skipping breakfast

wow

what an original concept, im sure theres never been people skipping breakfast in the history of mankind

[tom joad]

so its basically skipping breakfast

wow

what an original concept, im sure theres never been people skipping breakfast in the history of mankind

I still eat my normal breakfast (eggs, oatmeal, greek yogurt, blueberries ...). It just usually happens at noon instead of first thing in the morning.  

[Nether Animal]

so its basically skipping breakfast

wow

what an original concept, im sure theres never been people skipping breakfast in the history of mankind

Get lost. Worthless poster.

[8 INCH not biceps]

LOL what a bunch of skinny weak fucks in this thread, stop starving yourself and start eating more food 6 to 8 meals per day, a shake in the middle of the night if necessary how do you expect to get big fasting,  get real people.  

[Mitch]

what's the plan? 1/2 meal per day? No meal, just snacking?

[Nether Animal]

LOL what a bunch of skinny weak fucks in this thread, stop starving yourself and start eating more food 6 to 8 meals per day, a shake in the middle of the night if necessary how do you expect to get big fasting,  get real people.  

The point is to maintain lean gains. Not all of us are on enough drugs to drop a horse, or genetic marvels like yourself.

[ratherbebig]

Intermittent Fasting is THE SHIT!

[JimmyJam1974]

How are your bowel movements?

[Macrofitter]

LOL what a bunch of skinny weak fucks in this thread, stop starving yourself and start eating more food 6 to 8 meals per day, a shake in the middle of the night if necessary how do you expect to get big fasting,  get real people.  

That would be the approach for people on grams of RX, GH, IFG-1 and DNP - different ballgame

https://www.instagram.com/p/BQ05RiRgSE8/

[El Diablo Blanco]

I like how idiots call it fasting by not eating while they sleep then having a late breakfast/lunch.

[FREAKgeek]

Only a bodybuilder that goes without food for 14 hrs calls it a fast.

[jr]

That would be the approach for people on grams of RX, GH, IFG-1 and DNP - different ballgame

https://www.instagram.com/p/BQ05RiRgSE8/

Hairline took a beating

[doggler]

I like how idiots call it fasting by not eating while they sleep then having a late breakfast/lunch.

Nice dig @Nether Animal..

[JBGRAY]

Research also shows that intermittent fasting inhibits cancer cell growth. Eating food all the time increases cell division, which can increase likelihood of cancer.

A bodybuilder diet just puts too much stress on the body with the constant eating and ingestion of hundreds of grams of protein. Your digestive and endocrine systems never get a chance to catch a break.

I think it is the protein overload that demolishes the kidneys and a diet super high in cholesterol that are primary causes of death and organ failure, not anabolic themselves.

[oldtimer1]

I remember about 30 plus years ago bodybuilder John Cardillo said in an interview that he fasted one day a week and it made him really lean.  He trained very similar to Dorian Yates. John started like Yates using high intensity for two work sets an exercise. Toward the end of his bodybuilding career he had it down to one work set per exercise just like Yates.  

[Coffeed]

I believe what we're discussing here would be more appropriately described as "inadvertent fasting."

[cephissus]

Please shut the fuck up with this nonsense.

[El Diablo Blanco]

It's called sleeping.

[milone79]

its no fucking magic....its still calories in vs calories out...I won shows doing IF and won shows eating 6 meals/day....it is convenient for some people who don't like eating breakfast/lunch and prefer back loading all of their calories post-workout.....aside from that there is ZERO benefit over eating several meals throughout the day.

[dseiler]

its no fucking magic....its still calories in vs calories out...I won shows doing IF and won shows eating 6 meals/day....it is convenient for some people who don't like eating breakfast/lunch and prefer back loading all of their calories post-workout.....aside from that there is ZERO benefit over eating several meals throughout the day.

Incorrect. You have to stoke the metabolic fire all day!!!

[dj181]

it all comes down to calories in vs calories out

not rocket science
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[WannaBePro]

I like doing IF for the first 6-8 weeks of a cutting diet. But then I find I get way too flat and can't even get a pump in the gym (I'd work out then eat my first meal). I notice that those first week or so I can lift heavier weights, but then after that 2 month mark I plateau, I get gassed in the gym easily, and my endurance goes to shit. That's when I switch back to all day eating, fill out, and coast into summer nice and lean 

That's been my experience. Its not a long-term solution for me, but it sure as hell of a great tool to slowly acclimate your body to lower calories without suffering too hard.