Does it count as a fast day?

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talawas

1:43 pm
17 Aug 14
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For example, during fast day, for lunch I have light meal (<500 kcal)

Then, for dinner I have regular meal (~900 kcal) BUT I have 2 hour work out session (35km cycline ~ 950 kcal). In my humble opinion, it should cancel out the meal I had earlier.

The reason being that I would feel pretty tired / light headed if I skip dinner AND still workout.

So I want to ask: which is better : take regular dinner + workout (amount enough to cancel out the intake calories) – or skip dinner to keep the intake for the day <600 kcal AND skip workout as well (as I don’t have the energy to do it)

My body stats:

Sex: Male
Age: 26
Height: 161cm ~ 5 ft 3 in
Weight: 74.5kg ~ 164.2 lbs
Fat percentage (my scale can calculate that) : 28% (very high – i know! )

Another question:

For the light meal I have 2 options available for me: cereal + milk or salad (harder to make but possible). Which would be better?

My goal weight would be 63-65 kg within a year (shorter if possible). But I want to it the healthy way.

Thank you very much for reading and I would highly appreciate every tips I can get to bring my weight down.

2fast2furious

2:09 pm
17 Aug 14
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It’s not a fast day if you’re eating about 1400Cals a day, regardless of whether you’re exercising or not – that’s just normal dieting, it’s not fasting. To fast, you’d have to drop the big meal and stick to 600Cals, even if that means losing the workout for a few times while you get used to the energy intake. You can fast and exercise btw, but you have to conquer the idea of it in your mind first – honestly it’s fine.

Cereal is all carbs, so it will give you an energy spike and then an energy dip later on. That’s not great as you’ll want to eat then and not do anything! Try some protein (can you have a chicken salad or egg salad/omelette or something like that? I’m rubbish at cooking and food prep, and lazy, plus I have a sweet tooth – I should be bad at dieting, haha, but I have taken up having protein shakes. On a fast day I can have one mid morning to last til dinner, then a tiny dinner of a bit of chicken and some boiled veg, or if really lazy, I could just have a shake for lunch and a shake for dinner. If you must have cereal, at least have porridge which, for cereal, is pretty filling for the calories in it.