4 day fast/3 day eat on a weekly basis. Is it healthy?

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #22

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

#23

The truth is that no one including the FDA knows what true protein requirements are. @richard did a podcast a few years ago where he ate at the minimal daily protein requirements, I think .6 per Kilo per day (but I could be remembering incorrectly), he did not lose much muscle. To me 140 grams seems like a lot unless you are an athlete who is competing or have a much higher LBM than 140 lbs. I do not think it is your job on eating days to make up for everything lost on fasting days but I do not know and have no medical training. Also, my protein requirements may be different from your protein requirements even if we have similar LBM and engage in similar activities. Plus autophagy from fasting tends to repurpose old proteins, that is the point of it! Not sure why you are waiting to do resistance training until you have lost everything, it probably is a good way to preserve muscle now. Especially if you lose upper body muscle, do just upper exercises if lower is already good

While we all love to say that calories do not count, and they may not, I would get a sense of how much you are eating on your eating days. The reason being that if you are currently fasting half the week, so that instead of say, 14000 calories a week (7 x 2000) you are only eating 6000 a week, I might be a little uneasy about what happens when you do go back to eating 2000 calories every day. There are all these theories about permanently damaging your metabolism by eating too little. These are simply theories but I lost a bunch of weight (over 50lbs) in 2017 by EF and Keto. The minute I stopped EF, I gained some weight and with the pandemic, gained most of the rest back even though I still try to avoid carbs (with some but not complete success). However I am older with some other issues, as with everything, it may work and you will be able to keep it away

(Edith) #24

I think any loss of muscle is bad. How long was his experiment? If there was not much muscle loss in the short term (but the wording means there was some) that could translate to lots of muscle loss over the long term.

#25

That’s true. There is so much unknown and we are all treading in this unknown territory.

#26

By the way after I reach my ideal weight which is around 150 lbs, I’m planning to start exercise per Mark Sisson’s advice which is 2 times resistance and one time HIIT (sprint) as well as Pilates/yoga per week. Exercise will be my maintenance solution to stay at 150.