Two weeks ago, I posted a blog about intermittent fasting talking about what is it and the benefits of it. If you missed it please go and check the link below!! 🙂

https://gym.travel.blog/2019/01/22/intermittent-fasting-beginners-guide/

And now I want to share with you my daily routine when I was on intermittent fasting and the result after it. I also want to share my tips if you want to try intermittent fasting and some work-out I did during it.

My daily routine

There are many ways to start intermittent fasting. For me as a beginner, I choose the 16:8 method, which I think is the easiest to start with. The 16:8 means you do 16 hours of fasting and 8 hours of eating. It is all up to you when you want to set your daily fasting and eating routine. My eating period is at 1:30pm – 9:30pm. And my feasting period is from 9:30pm – 1:30pm. I found this time suit me the best with my school timetable.

The listed below is my daily timetable when I was on intermittent fasting:

1. I usually weak up at around 9am-10am. I drink a glass of water and a cup of coffee first things in the morning.
2. If I don’t have a class to go to, I normally go to the gym for an hour from 11am- 12pm. After the gym, I will prepare myself for the day and start cooking my lunch around 1:15pm.
3. I skip breakfast and have a late brunch when I’m on intermittent fasting. Therefore my first meal starts at 1:30pm. At this time I’m normally super hungry, therefore the portions of my brunch are normally quite big. But of course, in a healthy way.
4. Around 3:00-4:00 pm is my little snack time, where I’ll have some healthy snack such as banana, rice cake or nuts.
5. I eat my dinner at around 7:30, for my dinner I normally consume more carbs and fibre. This can help to fill you up during the night.
6. Finishing the day with a little snack or dessert before the 9:30pm. I go to bed around 12:00- 1:00am

Durning intermittent fasting, I had lots of good meals so I was not starving myself.

My result

This is my body before two weeks of intermittent fasting.

uh-huh!!!! This is the result after 2 weeks of intermittent fasting, and you can definitely see I lost a little bit of weight around my belly.

You can see I haven’t restricted my diet at all and I’m happy with the result so far. I found the result is amazing, that’s because I’m eating and living healthy. After all, its only been 2 weeks of intermittent fasting so you cannot expect an extreme amount of weight loss. There is no way that you lost so much weight in 2 weeks and that just unhealthy. Keep it in mind that weight loss is a time-consuming program it won’t happen within two weeks.

Tips

The first couple of days are the hardest because I’m not used to the change in my eating lifestyle. So, now I’m going to give you a couple of tips on intermitting fasting.

1. I personally think drinking tea or black coffee helps me a lot during the fasting period. During the Fasting period, you are allowed to drink water, tea and black coffee. This can stop you craving for foods.
2. Don’t eliminate carbs and also to have tons of fibre, because it’s going to fill you up for a longer period of time.
3. Not surprising to say, drink lots of water.
4. Go to the gym or have a nice walk outside, don’t stay in the same room for so long. Sometimes you think you’re hungry, but you probably just thinking about food. This is what I called the “mind hunger”, so go out and distract yourself.
5. Get enough sleep, if you don’t sleep enough you hunger hormone is going to spike up and ending up eating food.

Work-out I did during intermitting fasting

I like to fellow YouTube video when I go to the gym. As it can give me a guide on what to do. I linked two of my favoured workout clips, so you can easily follow along. All the video linked below are a full-body workout, and there are no equipment required.