It’s slow going, but steady and noticeable. I really like this one day eat as I please on gym day (focusing on high protein and some veg), and the next day water-fast body resculpting method.
It’s surprising how not difficult it is. A few times a day on fast days it’s slightly annoying. It’s the morning after a fast day and hand on heart I’m not feeling hunger right now. And that means about 24+8=32 hours since last eating, if I ate just before sleeping on gym day. I was productive right into the late evening last night, and had no problems sleeping. Again; not troubled by hunger.
I find drinking boulion helps on fast days; I guess the body needs the salt, and it’s strangely satiating; in a fasty kind of way. I hadn’t thought of it until day three of not eating at the initial shock-start to the fast, and wow did my body ever appreciate the salt!
There is a noticeable difference between how much fat I could grab, slouched over on the can yesterday morning, than how much I could grab today. The belly is within normalish range now, and it’s not going to take much longer at this rate until any hint of a protrusion is dialed to within exactly any spec of my choice.
Really easy, really efficient way to diet. I’m lovin the method, and the results.
For me I had results inside of decent range for both the belly and my muscles attainable within two weeks from starting shlub point. Decent meaning nothing to be embarrassed about, and bordering on attractive.
I’d guess that pretty well most any fat fuck could get himself looking decent within two months.
So,
I guess that means no excuses then.
It’s really not hard. No, really – I’m not just saying that. It’s totally doable. And what a difference it makes!
I feel SO much more sexy in bed now, and feel so much more deserving. It’s not easy to keep an attractive girl in her prime, especially at my age, height, and facial symmetry. I’ve no choice but to maximize my body, as well as anything else I can. And that, plus the everything else part, is making a huge difference to how the girl is treating me. She’s taken up a new hobby, and is very eager, focused, and attentive at praticing it. It’s getting in the way of my work, but I don’t want to get in the way of her hobby. She’s into giving head now. I guess we all need a hobby.
I’ve got a new hobby too. I’ve got a new 7 string hollow body jazz guitar, and have it hooked up via usb to the computer for software effects, and from there it goes to the stereo amp. It sounds great, and it’s really quite amazing to me just how much faster I’m learning to play music on it than I could since about 5 years ago when I last used to dick around on a guitar. It’s because of the piano playing. The fingers have a new intelligence now. It’s almost shocking. I had no idea that the musical ability in the fingers could transfer over like that.
I’ve got a tenor sax on the way.
So that will be piano, guitar, and tenor sax. Later I’ll add few more instruments, such as chromatic mouth harp, tenor flute, and a large bass cello. But the trio of guitar, piano, and sax is fucking awesome to get and keep a girls attention.
Again; really easy. All I did was dick around on the piano, at my own pace, with no lessons, no structured learning. Never played when I didn’t want to. Never pushed myself. Year after year after year, pure improv plus learning a few songs that caught my attention led to some actual musical ability. And that makes a huge difference in overall attractiveness, which is fucking important if I like blowjobs and sex. Which I do.
Best money I ever spent was the 4 grand on a Yamaha Clavinova electric piano. When it comes to musical instruments, get value for money, but get value. Get a good one. You’ll play more because you’ll sound way better. I bought two cheap ass guitars – one electric and one acoustic – before importing my 7 string jazz from China. The $100 guitars are kids toys compared to the $500 import. It’s a very different experience between playing them, and as you can imagine I’m much more inspired to play the good instrument.
And the $700 yamaha keyboard I had before springing for the Clavinova is also like a kids toy in comparison. I suppose the difference might be between fucking a fat fugly vs fucking a hottie? Both can seem good enough in the moment, but you’re going to want to fuck that hottie more often, and overall get a hell of a lot more pleasure from her. Especially for public performances.
A good instrument feels like an entity – like a living entity. You entwine with it, talk to it it, breath with it and discover with it. It’s a being. It makes a really big deal and difference to get a good being.
* Caveat; any fat fuck who is merely fat, and not obese.
Random Xpat Rantings 
Congratulations on your shrinking belly. It never occurred to me that the body might be craving salt on fasting days, but now I think about it, it makes sense. Probably something to do with the hormone aldosterone.
For long term weight maintenance I would suggest a restricted feeding window of eight hours per day, every single day. For the other sixteen hours only water, with or without a pinch of salt. Once you adjust to the regime it’s extremely easy – I never feel seriously hungry and my stomach is flat. Ketosis kicks in after about 12 hours, and maybe autophagy too. The pancreas gets a rest, blood sugar control is normalized – it’s all good.
That sounds good.
I’ve been hearing a lot about the potential life extention benefits of calorie restriction, and a few years ago they found that the benefits could be had with intermittent fasting instead of calorie restriction.
So for life extension, I’m not sure if a more wobbly calorie intake might actually be a bit better.
Not become a weeble wobbly, but just a bit wobblier. Like weekly cheat days and weekly fast days might be healthier than regular smooth maintenance, from a life-extention point of view.
I don’t think the data is in yet about the optimal fasting pattern, but 16:8 is recommended by many experts. Here’s a general overview of IF:
https://drannacabeca.com/blogs/weight-gain/fasting-mtor-autophagy-and-the-importance-of-the-feast
And here’s an easily readable introduction to autophagy:
https://idmprogram.com/fasting-and-autophagy-mtor-autophagy-1/
Thanks for the links. I tried to follow up and dig a bit deeper into the current research, but after 30 minutes have come to the conclusion that there isn’t yet double blind research on humans comparing various intermittent fasting regimens and long term outcomes.
There have been some studies, some of them conflicting; some studies showing some negative biomarkers for some people who try intermittent fasting. However another study showed that when done for over a month the body adjusts and there are positive biomarkers. I read of a study for 500 calories one day, unrestricted the next.
I haven’t seen a study yet for what I’m doing now – eating anything I want on gym day, water fast the next.
In one of your links, in the comment section, there was a link to a Dr’s writeup of a guy who did not eat food for over a year. It was reported that he did just fine. Amazing.
One fasting “expert” said that you need to keep eating the day after a workout, or you can’t gain mass. That’s not been my experience. I’m gaining muscle just fine on this regimen. And as I’m in my early fifties with a low to medium muscle gain response to exercise, I’d have to guess that despite vast differences in response to excersice that people have, most younger people would also easily still gain muscle on this regimen.
The regimen that you recommend seems about as good as anything else, as far as we know or could guess, according to my 30 minutes of research.
I’m looking forward to more published studies. In the meantime, I have at least one more week to go on this regimen. I’m impatient to get into a more preferred body shape, and this system is working faster than anything else I’ve ever tried.
For maintenance your system looks great.
However I have no reason to believe that it is healthier than a wobblier system of intermittent fasting. So I’ll try your system some times, and see if I also like cheat and fast days. I know I do like to feast some days. That might be just as healthy, so it may come down to preference and sustainability.
Muscle building capacity is extremely variable among individuals, primarily due to JNK:
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322676.php
I’m a skinny hard-gainer, which was good when I wanted to be an endurance athlete, but sucks now I’m trying to get bigger.
As with almost any life-moulding endeavour, dieting success is dependent on consistency and stickability. I find a daily routine (with the odd cheat day) helps the flywheel of habit keep spinning nicely. Others may find that onerous and be better off with a more relaxed regime – whatever helps them keep on track.
Well said.