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Hear me out, this is honestly me not trying to meme or anything, but seriously look into fasting. Essentially you fast for X amount of days (5-7 days would be recommended for your first fast).
That means NO FOOD.
Obviously you drink a fuck ton of water to stave off the hunger, but after about 2 days, the hunger signals start to go away.
What you will essentially be doing to your body is switching it to a state of ketosis, which means that your body will start to utilize fat. Imagine your body taking a meal from itself each day - kinda sounds a bit weird aye? But it does work.
As you are probably thinking about at this point "am I going to loose muscle or my gains?", my completely biased n=1 response would be, no muscle lost visually, strength was maintained, I guess you could reason that you would loose proportionally more fat than muscle, so that its not noticable, but I seriously think I didnt loose much muscle when I did the fast for 6 days, and went from 81kg to 76kg...
Yep theres such a thing as water weight (which probably includes everything from whether you have taken a dump, or pissed etc), but for me this was about 1kg or so, such that after about 3 days after the fast I was 77kg. Im still this weight 4 weeks out.
Will you put the weight back on quickly? In my case no, but I plan on fasting again in a while to go to a target weight of 72kg, in which case I will be shredded.
Expect to loose around 0.5kg to 1kg a day.

Things you need:
Water
Electrolytes (specifically a source of potassium, sodium and magnesium) - I get these by drinking one of those artificially sweetened sports drinks, be it powerade, gatorade or loaded - whatever is in your local city.
Probably also need a doctor - assessing things like baseline urea and electrolytes on a blood test, the major concern with fasting for prolonged periods is electrolyte abnormalities mainly with potassium - as you will be supplementing these it should be too much of an issue.

Ask me questions.

>>42409106

First of all, thank you for the answer.

My biggest concern about fasting is that I don't want to put my body in starving mode. I would lower my metabolic rate. At least this is my thought process. But I think this problem is easily solvable with a day of pushing, after the end of the fasting, and starting again with work outs the day after the pushing.

So my questions are: do you workout during the fasting, before, after? When?

How would be to get 2 days of fasting, let's say: the first two days of the week, then a day of pushing, normally eating till sunday, and then fasting again? I am healthy for what concerns urea and electrolytes, I regularly have blood tests.

Yep your metabolic rate will go down for sure while you are on the fast, but its not matched by any amount of food going in, so its always going to have to burn endogenous sources of energy. I got a bit more colder than normal (its winter where I am). I just made sure to have a heater going and exercised every day. Obviously once you start reintroducing food again, your MR will go up.

I workout during the fast every single day
Funny thing is, my energy levels skyrocketed on day 3 onwards, this was probably because of the body becoming adapted to breaking down fat and using it as a fuel source (for which there is plenty on your body).

I would limit willingly the weight I used though while on a fast, just because I didnt want to necessarily break down the muscle by having too much tension, so instead of doing 80kg bench press, I kept it at 60kg etc. As you arent eating any protein - theres nothing to gain muscle from.

Most of the days before the gym session I would have a sugarfree energy drink or black coffee for some caffeine. Maybe one other black coffee at another stage in the day to pick me up.

My impression and from reading others who have done a fast, is that it gets easier to stick to the fast after the 2 day mark, because your body becomes adapted too it. Easier in the sense that you will get less hunger pains etc.

If you have ever done IF, then its a good segway into a fast, because its that mental willpower to get over that first day or 2 of fasting that counts, after that its what you want to make of it.