How often were you guys fasting when you were doing it?

I've been doing 21 hours every third day, but last night was reading that daily was recommended and that daily would better curb hunger pangs. Plus if daily is best, skipping breakfast and lunch every day seems a bit....extreme to the point of unreasonable. I could do skipping breakfast, but since they say a small protein to break the fast and a normal meal an hour later, I don't know how I would work that in with an hour lunchbreak.

Cocktails and the occasional small ice cream are still killing my losses. Right now I'm lifting weights and enjoying that, but there's a mountain bike trail next door and I'm getting tempted to switch to that to really push the fat-loss mode, and then only once it's off go back to lifting as more of a bulking phase. Mountain biking would be 800-1000 calories burned vs. about 200 for weightlifting, so that's an almost surefire calorie deficit to switch. Being somewhat skinny-fat I want to stick to weightlifting, but then I wonder if I'm aiming for a calorie deficit but lifting weights, then that means I'm not really gaining size/muscle and therefore I'm almost working against myself.

You're not wrong so I hope I'm not sounding defensive. My thought was that the calculator says mountain biking for 70 minutes is -1000 calories, so we'll say -800 to be fair. And the calculator says -400 for weightlifting. So I'm thinking just that -400 difference every day assuming an equal diet could well represent the difference between maintaining and loss.

But yeah I've got to be more dedicated to carrot sticks and cutting back.


Well done TurboRicky! That's a really impressive loss.