Alternate day fasting? Your opinion 🙏
Hello! I’ve been doing 3 days fast in the past with great success. (Rinse and repeat and have lost 40 lbs/18kg) I’ve been maintaining for a 1 1/2 months span just to muscle build a bit (dexa says I’ve gained 10lbs of muscle as a 33 yo woman). I want to still achieve a leaner look since I still have 10lbs to loose (of fat lol). I’m aware that the less you weight, the more difficult it is to fast long term. I’ve come around some yt videos about an alternate day fast. Since the fast day is more a 500cal diet (so still some protein) and the other is just normal eating. Would you think it would be a good tool to try and get to goal weight? I’d think that this method in theory would be great to not lose as much muscle even at the cost of quicker result. I’m not against doing that for the long haul vs quick loss but all muscle. What’s your opinion? Could it really be a good idea? Will the 500 cal a day will trigger cal adaptations? Also it will be a try on my part to not sacrifice muscle as much, my trainer said that this much muscle growth in such short notice on a women would mean that I had too little muscle for my constitution. Even with all that added muscle; it doesn’t look like anything cause it basically just made me look in the cups of average. Still look skinny fat lol. I’m still proud of the progress; but I don’t want to go back into an even worse skinny fat look. What do you think???
Also, if someone needs to know I’m 5 foot 6 inches/166cm, 137lb/62kg. I’m an actual healthy bmi, but I still have bubble guts, deep love handle, my bras still cut in my back fat (yet a good size). I know for a fact that theoretically my perfect weight is 130lb/59kg still healthy weight since for the longest it was my happy weight until parenthood. Only thing it’s stressing me out about all the muscle mass/dexa stuff.