Very important need to weight train after fasting hours are done like 30min left of fastin go to gym becuase youll take advantage of the increased amount of HGH & IGF-1, the. Eat postworkout

16/8 IF with macro cycling (Training days: High protein / high carb / low fat - Rest Days: High protein / high fat / low carb) has served me very very well over the past few months.

That includes 2 training sessions on 'training' days (fasted weight training in the morning and athletics at night).

I've tried IF and did not like it. I did pick up some principles from it but do not follow it directly.

I like VIKING's no carbs after 2pm the best. Check his thread for real world fat loss results

To each their own on this intermittent fasting subject,
I guess like any thing else fasting effects individuals in different ways.
For me the outcome was not that great, I've read up on I.F. with all the do's and don'ts, got excited with the thought that this could really work.
The problem was that it did work, it worked a little to well!
In the first week I lost close to 10lbs which is what I had expected, you know the usual with any diet ie; water weight exc. by the second week on I.F. I had lost just shy of 20lbs. As great as this sounded to my friends at work, I felt that I had to advise them not to do it due to the my personal experience.
During the time frame I was eating, I ate foods high in protein / low carb, supplemented with vitamins, and drank plenty of water.
As time passed I've gotten to where I could not eat as much as I was in the beginning.
The result: I lost weight "the only good part of this"
But I also lost strength, muscle , and believe it or not my hair started falling out.
I did not mention this at the beginning of this, but my wife was on this diet with me and the same thing was happening to her.
As for the hair loss, it wasn't as dramatic as it sounds. We weren't losing it by the handfuls or any thing like that but the shedding was noticeable.
A doctor told my wife and I that it was from a lack of protein, and a scenario of people that went through gastric bypass/lapband loosing their hair from lack of protein.
Basically the Doc let me know in his own special way that I was being a bumass, ad told me to start eating more food.
As I mentioned earlier this diet will probably effect individuals in different ways, but I would advise agents it. SCELETOR is not a great look.

this is just a new way of starving ur self. if u wana lose ur muscles and get a weaker body more prone to injury then do it. its honestly fucking retarted . im sorry ..but it is..

i can have a balanced 8 meals a day and still lose weight. why because my metabolism is always working, and i burning calories during cardio. and bam calorie deficit, my body is not in survival mode, im losing weight and im not miserable. i never feel like shit but with ur new method u will and u wont burn that much weight.

also another thing, if ur gunna post this and hype it up. why dont u try it first. dont go telling ppl to do it, if u havent tried it ur self. kinda of against that.

i can go tell ppl to that syntholing the cock will actually make ur dick bigger too, but since i have not done it myself i dont. so there u go

Just my 2 cents.. I'm no expert and I can't speak for the science but I have tried intermittent fasting and I had poor results. My effort at the gym was most effected. I wouldn't say I had 0 energy but my workouts definitely suffered. I didn't lose much if any body fat and I feel that because I couldn't work as hard in the gym my muscle mass suffered.

Edit: also worth mentioning, I wasnt using any aas during this time.

tighten up, playa. come with some real shit, not some youtube links.. take some time to read some case studies, jot down notes from them, throw them together in an article of your own with your own interpretation and in your own words. just like when you write a research paper..

and, i'm sorry, but i completely disagree with these statements. knowing how the human body works in regards to fasting, the catabolic reactions taking place during this time completely oppose and inhibit anything anabolic related. at least naturally speaking.

IF is, to me, an amazing way to eat, lose weight AND put on muscle [there are different protocols depending on goals that I have adopted to my needs] But suffice to say i have NEVER eaten more than 3 times per day in the past 3 years and have made the best gains in my life.

I have been doing this for 3 years now and have made some of my best gains using this method

The way in which this works [with science backed] makes so much sense but what it also does is challenges the the current way of how people general diet for BB and Size.

Leangains.net and rippedbody.jp are also a good place to read up if you are interested.

It is a big area to talk about - but since I took the plunge three years ago - my entire diet approach has changed. It has been the SINGLE most evoluntionary change in how it train to gain.