My weekly fasting/time restricted eating. Suggestions?

(charlie3) #1

I’d like to solicit suggestions from a few of you with more experience about my current pattern of fasting/time restricted eating.

Monday-Friday is time restricted. I eat at lunch time at work then at dinner time, 16:8. On Saturday I eat nothing. On Sunday I have an early morning breakfast and mid afternoon dinner. (I don’t snack.)

Going forward I’m expecting to keep this pattern and eat a couple of 100 extra calories per day over maintenance during the week to encourage muscle growth from lifting then hope to burn some fat calories on a Saturday 36 hour fast and spare lean tissue in the process.

Does this sound reasonable?

#2

The only thing I would suggest is not to focus on how many calories you are taking in. When you eat; eat to satiety - and add fat if you’ve met your protein/carb macros. A 36hour fast isn’t going to do much re: lean muscle wasting (if that’s what you’re concerned with).