My Intermittent fasting experiment: A feeding adjustment

So, I’ve been fasting for over 8 weeks now and the diet has been working well. At the same time, I have the habit of always tinkering. Like a NASCAR mechanic who always tries to get little more horsepower and more efficiency out of his engine, I kinda of see my body as that glorious NASCAR machinery. Did I just say that aloud?

If I can manipulate the hormones in my body to better lose body fat and gain/keep the lean mass, I will be closer to winning the bet and collecting my $50. Hence, I have been thinking about how I can improve my feeding parameters to boost the IF method.

To recap, I have been eating the carb-up meal as my first meal of the day, at 12 pm after my workout. After that I have been consuming a low carb items that consist of green veggies and lean protein. Although this feeding schedule has been working well so far, I asked myself: is there a way to increase lipolysis even to a greater effect? What if I move my workout to the evening and continue to keep my insulin levels low during the day feeding time? Will that in effect increase the potential fat burn and also make my insulin sensitivity even higher?

In other words, by changing my workout and post-workout carb-up meal to the evenings, I can enhance more caloric burn from fat while super-charging my system to drive more macronutrients into my muscles, creating a greater anabolic environment.

Week 9
Thus starting this week, I plan to move my workout to the evening. This has a triple fold effect:

• I potentially increase my fat burn window from 8 pm to 7 pm.
• I potentially increase the effectiveness of insulin even to a greater degree, which in turn will help me to gain more muscles.
• I definitely will make my wife a lot happier because she can create a dinner menu that is worthy of a Jabba the Hutt. (If you didn’t know already, she is a fantastic cook who has more cooking books and kitchen equipment than Bobby Flay).

The plan for the next four weeks is this:

1. Increase my MCT and casein intake in my first two meals.
2. Reduce my volume but increase the intensity in my workouts.
3. Eat 80% of my daily caloric needs in my last meal.

My fear about this plan is that in my last meal, I will not be able to consume enough calories due to the fact that my stomach has shrunk a little over the last 8 weeks; but Kate told me she is going to buy Hagen Dazs strawberry ice cream which will fill the little nooks and crannies of my stomach lining for those extra calories.

Thank God I married such a wonderful, thoughtful, and caring woman.

Hopefully, this will pan out as I have theorized in my head. Stay tuned for more updates!