Tag Archives: Intermittent Fasting
How to Fast
How do you go about fasting? Simple, don’t eat. I know it sounds silly, but it really is that easy. Don’t eat. Ok, so you need to not eat for a reasonable period of time: not eating for an hour between dinner and dessert doesn’t really count as a fast. You can do it the […]
Intermittent Fasting Increases Testosterone?
Just re-tweeted a tweet (is that how you say it?) by Brad Pilon where he mentions a study suggesting that short fasts increase testosterone. If true, this is good news for all us men – especially those of us approaching an age where testosterone production naturally begins to decrease. I have yet to actually see […]
Intermittent Fasting and Productivity
After breakfast on Friday (post workout meal) I started a 24 hour fast. I was planning on breaking the fast at 10am on Saturday, but didn’t feel hungry or interested in eating at all. On the contrary, I wrote blog posts and went running. I felt energised and productive. Eventually I did break the fast, […]
Motivation: How to get the Running Done
Back from a 5k run done in a fasted state – and we’re talking a 24-hour fast here. Still haven’t broken the fast, by the way. It went well. By no means an all-time personal best (I haven’t done any consistent running for years, so I am very slow at the moment), but I managed […]
Lifegains, Leangains and How I Fast
Yes, I realise how much Lifegains – the name of my blog and my project – sounds like Leangains: Martin Berkhan’s protocol for intermittent fasting. It must have been in the back of my head as I thought up Lifegains, but it doesn’t matter. It’s a good name and I’ll stick with it. I first […]
More on Intermittent Fasting
Coming towards the end of another 24-hour fast, Brad Pilon Eat Stop Eat-style. And it’s striking how little I feel like eating. Not at all, in fact. And to top it off I’m even going on a 5k run before I eat, and I feel fine with that. Whereas before I used to obsess about […]
Documentary on Intermittent Fasting
This is probably the laziest post ever. A while back the BBC did an interesting documentary on fasting, and I thought I’d comment on it, but found that Brad Pilon, who knows infinitely more about intermittent fasting than I do (in fact I wouldn’t know what it was if it weren’t for him and Martin […]
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