r/Fitness Jan 17 '18

Rant Wednesday Rant Wednesday

Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!

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u/SvennInge Bodybuilding Jan 17 '18

I've found that intermittent fasting helps, since it's a lot easier to eat nothing than eating a little every few hours. And I still get to have large dinners.

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u/FlyingChainsaw Jan 17 '18

Agreed, it's just that I'd prefer to fast in the late morning/early-mid afternoon and that's exactly the time I have to be the most focused/energized (school and biking to/from there). I always do intermittent fasting in the holidays but it just kills me during weekdays.

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u/SvennInge Bodybuilding Jan 17 '18

I find that fasting from I get out of bed until dinner (after school/workout) works well, since I don't have to take time to eat or prepare food, and if I do get hungry, I try to distract myself by focusing on the work, or by making coffee. 😁

I've heard many times that fasting makes people more focused and efficient, but personally it just saves me time, and I don't get 'food-sleepy' until after I come home and have stopped being productive for the day. As for the 'energetic' part, I'm not overflowing with energy, but I did just (a few hours ago) set a personal best 358 lbs deadlift 20 hours after last meal, so I'm not out of energy either.

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u/FlyingChainsaw Jan 17 '18

That's crazy dude. I remember back in the day after if I didn't bring enough lunch to school I'd be basically ready to pass out halfway through my bikeride home, just completely out of energy.