Another week of fasting, running and weight loss

Another week of alternate day fasting and running and I am starting to get my mojo back. Things have not been great over the past 2 weeks, my weight has not really moved much and my 5k time trial did not go as hoped. At the same time I have made some good progress with my running motivation and am back into the swing of it. My goals have changed from doing the 5k training plan to building my base.

I mean really building my base should always have been my aim but I really wanted to speed up, then again building you base can speed you up. I am back to 2lbs away from being a healthy BMI as well and longer slower running should help with this. 

Wow this post is all over the place. Anyway my primary reason for shifting back to longer slower running is the heat but also that fast running doesn't work great with fasting (at this point). If you run hard before you eat you are feeling quite depleted and the act of running fast makes you deplete glycogen stores and then it is harder to stay fasted as this increased your hunger. 

Overall I am further ahead of where I was in 2015 in terms of weight loss and on a par with my fast running pace. I am currently on a run steak of 6 days running at least 20 minutes, though with 2 10 mile runs in there as well I feel it was a productive week. 

Now my plan to to keep my run streak of at least 20 minutes a day going for as long as I am healthy to do so but with the aim of increase my miles. Next week I will aim for 3 10 mile runs, which will be helped by England Athletics advising that running clubs can start again. So hopefully next week I can do 3 x 10 miles runs on Monday, Wednesday and Friday (always helps with the Saturday morning weight in) and then do at least 20 minutes on the other days. Will aim to build this up to more and more days a week, with lots of recovery chucked in of course and hopefully by the time I am back in the office I will have done my highest ever mileage week. 

Week 3 Fasting - Going well

Happy to say that the fasting side of things is still going well though with the lock-down my running mojo is not so good. I am still going out and trying to use the treadmill but I am using this time of lock-down to work on my core and strength using weights and squats etc. to try and get myself in a good basic state. 

Weight loss this week has been really good, I am down another 3.8lbs which makes it 1 stone in 3 weeks. I am very happy with this but doubt I will see this weight loss continue. Out of curiosity I looked into my weight loss journey from 2015. In that year I lost 7 stone of so of weight, most of it at the start. Turns out that at this point in 2015 I was basically the same weight on the same day, guess I can have a race to see whether I can beat my weight loss trends from that year. Being 5 years older and having already done it once I am not sure it is going to be as easy. 

I am going to have to do some experimentation as about an hour or so after completing a fast my IBS is playing up in a nasty way. I have always had a tendency for this, to be honest for as long as I can remember since I was a child. Once I got a bug and was so dehydrated from the above process that I had a seizure so it isn't something I like to take lightly. 

Really looking forward to seeing where my journey goes from here. I want to bring some new content to the blog and might add some running footage or just a chat with myself about how the fasting is going. I will have to see if I can find a way to cheaply record running and audio at the same time even if I feel daft doing it.