It is 12:30 and I really cannot take it because my hunger pangs are starting to kick in.
Hey guys! It's Tyen.
So a while back I took a poll on Instagram stories and ask you what diet trend you want
me to try next.
And a lot of you voted for Intermittent Fasting.
Intermittent fasting is more of an eating pattern than a diet where you cycle between
periods of fasting and eating.
So it doesn't specify what you and cannot eat but more when you eat them.
What Intermittent Fasting is meant to do, it's supposed to increase your energy,
reduce body inflammation, reduce water retention and most people use it as a weight loss method.
So the principle is that when you eat food your body uses that food for energy but without
the food, when you're not eating and when you're fasting what your body does is that
it uses its fat storage for energy instead.
So there are many different methods of Intermittent Fasting.
And the most common is the 16:8, where you fast for 16 hours and have all your meals
during an 8 hour period.
This style of eating is gonna be a huge change for me because breakfast to me is one of the
most important meals of the day.
I wake up and I just want to have my breakfast to start my day because I need the energy.
Another thing about me is that I like to work out in the mornings and to not be able to
eat before I train might be a bit of a challenge for me because I don't really know how it's
gonna affect my performance in the gym especially when I'm doing rigorous activity like strength
training where I require a lot of energy from food.
While I am gonna be tracking my weight throughout the week, I'm more focused and curious as
to how it makes my body feel and how I react to this new eating pattern.
It is day 1 of my Intermittent Fasting diet, I also was feeling not too well, so I didn't
plan to workout this morning.
So I guess I didn't really feel super hungry or feel the need to eat so much.
I also took a physique update and took my weight, I wanna see how Intermittent Fasting
has kind of effect my body and my physique.
Pretty excited to start this new Intermittent Fasting pattern.
So this is gonna be my lunch for today.
There's some leftover chicken bone broth soup and here are some stir fry veggies with pumpkin and rice.
I also heard that Intermittent Fasting diet you kind of are encouraged to drink a lot
of probiotic-rich foods and bone broth soup is one of them.
And this is really really nutrient dense.
I think this is like a perfect way for me to break my fast, get all my nutrients into my body.
Now it's about 5 o'clock and I thought I needed to stand up and go and do some kind of physical activity.
So I decided to bring this one for a walk.
And in terms of my hunger levels, I feel pretty satiated from the soup and the rice and the veggie.
I think because I haven't been physically active the whole afternoon so I haven't felt super hungry.
On my way to my gig now, this is another side job of mine,
besides fitness training and hosting I also sing.
Good morning, it's day 2 of the Intermittent Fasting diet.
I gotta say I am feeling pretty hungry this morning.
I'm gonna be training but I will say though that I am feeling a lot tighter especially
in my midsection area.
So something important to note is that during the Intermittent Fasting diet you're only
allowed to have 3 drinks.
And that is water, black coffee and green tea or any other kind of like
unflavoured, low-calorie or zero calorie drink.
The time now is 1:29 and I gotta be honest I am pretty damn hungry so I decided to go
ahead and make my first meal.
I have an omelette with 3 eggs, spinach, some celery and chopped whatever veggies I had in the fridge.
And I'm having a side of oranges so I get a blast of vitamin C.
So I just finished filming a YouTube video, this is a bit of my setup.
I am going to go and get a little snack a-li-doodle-do, cause I have a concert tonight, Slash is here.
I'm so excited because I'm a huge fan of like old-school rock and roll.
I'm so excited to watch the show.
It is 12:30 and I really cannot take it because my hunger pangs
are starting to kick in.
Nevermind I just break my fast later tomorrow.
Okay day 3 of Intermittent Fasting, I just finish a 25 30 minute cardio abs routine at home.
And I gotta say I am really surprised I actually don't feel tired or lethargic at all.
On some mornings when I wake up, especially if I had a late night out the night before,
I feel super lethargic but yeah this morning I work up really pumped for my workout.
Ready to just sweat it out and I actually had surprisingly, I kid you not, even more, energy
this morning than I would on other mornings so maybe Intermittent Fasting is really helping
me renew my energy and we'll see how it goes like for the rest of the day.
Okay so it's now 1:40 and my professor has decided to give the class a break so I'm gonna
have my first meal.
In term of my hungry level right now, I actually didn't feel super hungry, I actually felt
very very focused today during class.
I drank a lot of water, I think the coffee helped me to get through the first half of it.
I didn't feel like I was starving, I felt very full from drinking the water and the
coffee and the caffeine just kept my energy up so now I'm just breaking my fast because it's time.
I could probably wait a bit longer but I want to eat before the break ends.
I actually packed myself a salad this morning.
Cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, some fish today and it's on a bit of just mixed greens.
I try my best to prep my meals on school days because I don't really like to eat out.
This is gonna be my dinner for today.
I've pumpkin, silken tofu and some broccoli and cauliflower,
I also have myself a side of soup.
This is like day3 of my Intermittent fasting and I gotta say, I actually really starting
to like this pattern of eating because you know, you're not focused on food.
In fact, I was just focusing on work and the time that I was busy doing my work, I actually
didn't feel hungry at all.
It's the longest I ever fasted and so far so good.
I think that's why I'm starting to get a bit hungry and hear my stomach growling a bit.
So to break my fast today, I have chicken breast, eggs and some veggies from a salad store.
And of course, I got some black coffee.
Right now I'm at the gym.
In term of my energy levels, I still actually don't feel hungry but I do know that if I'm
gonna train hard, I want to make sure that I have enough energy so, I am eating this
green apple just a little pre-workout and a little sugar rush and I gonna hit a total body workout.
Good morning! It is 7:30 on a Saturday morning
and I'm up and about to meet my darling clients because
we're gonna go and workout this morning.
Right now, I am still not hungry, I would like some coffee but I got to rush because
I got a yoga class to go on this Saturday morning.
Alright so I'm done with my yoga class, I think this is like the first time I'm doing
yoga in 6 months, so I was super inflexible especially in my shoulder and chest area.
But anyway, I'm gonna fill my body with some health and I got a vegan buddha bowl and I'm
with mom having lunch. Mom is having a beef stew.
She also brought her own veggies over here.
So like...this is where I get it from.
You bring extra veggies to a restaurant because
we don't ever think that restaurant even provide enough vegetables.
So I'm back home now, I've been doing work for the past couple of hours and yeah, I just
want to show a very quick update on my body.
I really have lost quite a lot of bloating, especially in my abs area.
A lot of the water retention and inflammation kind of went down so I'm really happy with that.
I would say that I do feel a lot lighter and a lot tighter in my midsection area.
Okay, so I'm back home now from my gig.
It is about 1 a.m. right now, I am starving.
Even though I am Intermittent Fasting, so I'm not supposed to be eating.
I do feel that the performance was quite an energetically like an expensive one, so I
do not want to go to sleep with an empty stomach.
I still do believe that there should be some flexibility with your diet.
If you are hungry before you sleep, go and get your food in because you don't want to
go to sleep with a growling stomach.
It's really important what you put into your body, so if you're filling your body with
good protein, vegetables and drinking a ton of water, then you should be fine.
So I'm done with training this morning, and coincidentally, my client has also been doing
intermittent fasting this week and what she found is that she's experiencing an increase
in energy, a lot more focus throughout the day.
She actually feels like this as an eating pattern is a lot more sustainable for her
because it's simple you know, you just don't eat breakfast and you don't eat supper.
And she's also experiencing very similar things to me, there's a lot less inflammation in
our bodies especially post-working out.
She also experiences improvement in her bowel movement.
Alrighty, I'm at my grandma's house today.
I made chap chai, some rendang, of course, we have a salad for Tyen.
Grandma is awesome, grandma always makes me like extras veggies.
Yes she becomes a rabbit every Sunday.
She and I become rabbit every Sunday.
No, I am a rabbit every day.
Grandma: Every day, I Sunday only eat this. Tyen: You become a rabbit on Sunday.
So every weekend we have lunch with my grandma and she always makes me healthy food and also
not so healthy foods.
Not so healthy, just once in a while is alright.
Balance, just once a week for grandma life is short we sometimes have to indulge
ourselves with something else also.
Like have a bowl of laksa once in a while Then you go eat the Lontong, put 1Bergedil,
so delicious.
Tyen: Okay, I'm gonna eat now. Grandma: Once in a while, twice a week is okay.
So overall I think this is surprisingly much easier than what I expected.
You know this kind of goes against what I believe is breakfast to be the most important
meal of the day but instead of decreasing my energy and my focus, it actually increased them.
And instead of feeling like binge eating during my eating window, I surprisingly didn't feel
like I needed to do that at all.
Well, there were 2 or 3 nights where I did feel like having something sweet and cheating
so I did have chocolate.
Maybe 2 pieces or 3 pieces, and some prawn cracker, but other than that, it wasn't terrible.
I didn't cheat like totally but I did have those small little cravings and I believe
there should be some level of flexibility to this diet.
So I've comes to the end of my week of Intermittent Fasting and I've gotta say that I
pretty like this pattern.
In terms of adopting it as a lifestyle, I don't know if I would do it as a long-term
strategy because I'm just someone who absolutely loves eating breakfast.
Maybe I might practice you know Intermittent Fast, where I go through 2 or 3 days in a
week where I practice Intermittent Fasting and then for the rest of the days, especially
if I'm working out in the morning, I have a small meal before I go.
If you're thinking of trying Intermittent Fasting then I say go for it because it's
quite a sustainable pattern of eating that you can adopt.
I think the most important thing to note is to not binge eat.
When you break your fast, just eat a normal sized meal, pace yourself, drink some water
and then you can eat your small meals throughout that 8hrs eating period.
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