When do you exercise? Do you find it’s easier to exercise between your two meals, at night or in the morning? Did you face challenges with this? Is there an adjustment period?
1. I used to work out early in the morning or early noon, after work. But with lockdown and working overtime I can't exercise at all.
2. After lunch break I do some planking routines to minimize muscle mass loss. Since it is a bodyweight exercise it is less likely to overdo it.
3. Yes. Before lockdown I was used to have a snack here or there, have breakfast and stuff... but then the little double chin was threatening to appear again so I had to endure it.
4. Yes, after a week or so you'll get used to it.
Also I have this nice scale that estimates your body fat %, muscle mass % and aprox. basal metabolism. I check it once or twice a week to assure that I'm not doing anything crazy. currently I need 2200 cal per day, so I count the calories of my food servings.
But as I said, i'm used to fasting. Years ago back in 2007 I would Wake up in the morning at 5 am, drink a single cup of chocolate milk and wait for the bus to go to school and only eat again midday when I came back home. during my first year at pharmacy school I used to weight 54 kg (you could see all my cheekbones, I looked like a skull), and this was wearing heavy jeans clothes!
All of this is still taking its toll, tough. All the gyms here are closed, I used to bench press 40kg and now I can barely carry a 20 l water gallon.
