Alternative Day Fasting: The Experiment

With the new year here and the desire to lose over half of my weight, I figured I would write this post and update it monthly for accountability and those interested in the Alternative Day Fasting diet. For those that don’t know the diet involves eating every other day and fasting on the others. I will be doing a slightly different version for this version.

Generally, for what I will be eating I will not be changing much and will mostly keep eating junk food but the rules are for my eating days I will eat whatever I want while still “reasonability” keeping around my TDEE. For the fasting days, I will not eat anything at all. Generally, I will be above my TDEE at the weekend as I will have a takeaway for one of these days. I will keep alternating between days but should the fast fall on the Sabbath I will eat on those days and keep going as if I didn’t. I will still fast for any Jewish festivals required for those days. For example, Ta’anit Esther is a Thursday this year should it be an eat day this means I will instead fast. I will document how I felt each month and how well I stuck to it – sometimes things will happen.

You will find that in many communities, they say you can’t drink diet drinks, but I will be. I am not doing this for health benefits beyond weight loss. Lastly, it is worth saying I do cycle and this may affect results The weight loss/gain will be recorded on FitBit and I will then make a graph at the end of each month. To record keeping the weight you will see will be listed for the first day of that month.

With this in mind, I will start the graph with my starting weight!

This article will be updated at the end of January.