Week 2 of fasting

So this week was week 2 of IF / fasting / OMAD or whatever the heck it is that I am actually doing. 

I really wanted to continue the good work from the first week and also to make the most of not having to work this week so... I took the chance to stretch myself and completed a 70 hour fast, it mostly felt pretty good. I think my electrolytes will be key if I want to do another long fast. 

I am now settling into the routine of doing alternate day fasting with a feeding window on the non-fasting day. My first real experience of this finished today, Sunday. I started with eating a good meal and with some berries and cream afterwards on Friday at around 1pm, I then fasted until midday on Sunday, in total I was at around 46 hours when I stopped the fast. 

I am optimistic that this will work. Overall it felt really easy, I had a couple of times when I felt like it was impacting me but these didn't last for more than 10 minutes or so. I think I have been making the mistake of not drinking to thirst and thinking I need to drink more, this dilutes my electrolytes and makes me feel a bit rubbish. 

Last Sunday morning I was at the same point of a fast when I weighed in at 190lbs, this week I was down to 186.8lbs, so a like for like loss of 3.2lbs. If I stick to true ALD (alternate day fasting) then I may have to make my weigh ins every 6 or 8 days but that doesn't matter. 

Running wise I have been out for quite a few shorter runs this week. With Corona-virus and where I live it is hard to get out without loads of people being about so I have gone early and have generally found it good. To maximise fat burning I am trying to go as near to the end of the fast as possible. With being back to work next week that is going to be tougher but I am hoping to go out for 30 minutes every day with my daughter and then on the evenings of the days I am fasting. 

When everything opens up again I may have to change my process a bit. To be honest I am hoping to be in good enough shape to run most days by then and am really hoping that fasting helps to fix my metabolism and allow me to reach the weigh I easily reached with Keto alone in 2015, sub 170 in the short term, sub 160 in the longer term with more running and if it goes amazingly then I think sub 150 is my optimum running weight. 

For now I am hoping that a race I have in December (originally April) is a sensible target. It gives plenty of time for the weight loss to happen, I mean 30+ weeks for 30lbs (is the dream!) and once I have seen how the treadmill and the virus goes hopefully I can get some decent training in. 

I will be sure to post a little more of the training a am doing soon. I might even be brave and post some videos of me doing the exercises wrong. Mostly I am complementing the running with weights, squats, skipping and the usual planks etc. 

I am also hoping to start using an old running watch to track my runs, once my last running watch broke I figured I didn't really need it anymore but it would be good to post my running plan along with my fasting plan.