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by stantham 2718 days ago
This is exactly my experience with the diet.

I've been doing intermittent fasting for about 3 months now. I fast for 16 hours, and have 2 meals a day (lunch at 12PM and dinner at 8PM), I eat 0 to low carbs, since my diet is mostly animal based products (meat and eggs, and I have protein powder from beef and egg which I occasionally take as well).

I really don't feel hungry at all, never. It's insane. I go to the gym at 7AM, after 11 hours of fasting, and I can workout just fine. The difference has been absolutely crazy.

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Good job on the fasting, but:

> since my diet is mostly animal based products (meat and eggs

Bad news. I'd recommend a whole-food plant-based (WFPB) diet if you'd like to improve your health.

How are you going to do this without consuming a lot of carbs?
Lol - yeah good luck with that
same experience with the difference that I do carb cycle. on workout days I eat high protein,carb and low fat and on workfree days I eat high protein, more fat and few carbs.

workout without breakfest does work, although if I go to very heavy weights, I tend to take a bit of BCAA before the workout.

Yes, it is quite eye-opening.