I fasted today, so dieting was the prerogative over exercise. I’m thinking that I need to cut exercising volume back and focus more on diet as my goals are weight-loss at this point (getting leaner). Scaling back to high-intensity exercise (like Tabata or the occasional cardio-circuit) mixed with weight lifting (maybe 2x week) should be plenty of exercise so long as my diet is on target. What I’ve found over the past couple of weeks is that the combo of dieting and a lot of exercise seems to really make me hungry. It’s not that I haven’t made progress – I have – its just that the progress in no way correlates to the volume of effort I’ve put in. Thus, I’m thinking if I scale volume back, my appetite will likely scale back as well, and I can just focus my energy on keeping the diet in check.

On that front, I’m going to switch to full-day fasts whereby I go to sleep one night, eat nothing the next day, and break the fast the following day whenever it makes sense (probably lunch at the earliest). This will make for 36+ hour fasts. Why the length?

Couple thoughts:

1) My current 30 hour fast seemed to have diminishing returns. I think this is most likely due to my amazing ability to overeat once I break the fast (or leading up to the fast). Thus, I undo a lot of the work. Maybe this is less likely to occur if I actually go a full day (as the earth turns) without eating. Why? Well, I can then prolong the fast to noon or later (dinner) which reduces the eating window I have to compensate for the fast.

2) There’s something much simpler about skipping a full day of eating rather than the – eat lunch, skip dinner and the following day’s breakfast/lunch. It’s the same number of meals, sure, but going a full day without eating is just cleaner and less to think about. It also seems easier for me for some reason.

All that said, I did Tabata Thrusters with the 35 lb. kettlebell alternating arms at each 30 second interval. Breakdown was sorta slow:

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Will fast until lunch tomorrow, which will make for about a 38 hour fast.