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Originally Posted by Anabolic5150

Intermittent fasting is just that, you fast for 16 hours a day and eat for 8. I didn't think it would work, but I have done it in the past with great success. During my 8 hour feeding window, I have 3 very large meals. I really never am hungry in the morning so it fits how my body wants calories. Ghurelin production is decreased so no hunger pangs. I usually get hungry about 10:30am and can really eat as I like. Protein is kept high and carbs are manipulated depending on training requirements. It even has a way for those that train early morning as I do on occasion using BCAA's to prevent catabolism.

Sounds interesting! May have to try this sometime. Do you drink anything post-workout, or just strictly only eat 3 meals?

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Originally Posted by baby1

Sounds interesting! May have to try this sometime. Do you drink anything post-workout, or just strictly only eat 3 meals?

Depending on time of day I train I will have a PWO shake. Here is what Andy recommends and what I have done with success.

Training at 7am as I do at times, I have 10g BCAA's before leaving for the gym and sip on 10g in water while training. I come home and at 11am will slam 75g of whey and 100g of dextrose and have a meal an hour later. I count the protein and carbs from the shake in my macros but not as a meal. My meals this day will be smaller as such.

Training at 2pm, I eat a meal at 11am and during training I will sip on 10g BCAA's. Immediately Post workout I have my shake as above. Again, I count it in the macros but not as a meal. Then before 7pm I will have 2 more meals. I'm eating about 3500-3600 calories a day on training days and condensing that into 3 meals gives me quite a bit of food rather then 6-7 small meals.