/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Two words: intermittent fasting. Went down 27 pounds in 9 weeks doing it.

Here's what I did: go to the gym at 10am and do basic strength training with light weights. Fast from 8pm to noon. Then eat essentially whatever so long as calories stay at just below maintenance and protein is at least 0.6g per kg of bodyweight.

Since you aren't digesting any food for a 16 hour period insulin is lowered and causes increased hormone production. This, combined with energy depletion and protein synthesis of working out, causes fat to be burned at an expedited rate and calorie intake goes to muscle strengthening instead of fat storage. This allows fat to be burned even in normally stubborn areas (for me, the belly. Which I never thought I'd get rid of).

It's perfectly safe and won't lead to an eating disorder. In fact, it's not even a diet, since you're eating normally just in different time windows.

I'm asian. That's how. I eat whatever and never gain a pound.


Enjoy your poor genes, whitey.