Yeah it's pretty incredible. If you're a total fat ass you can live off your bodyfat for a looooooooong time

did a water fast for like 10 days, no idea why i did it but i did. Ended up losing like nearly 15kg in that time, my friends thought i had HIV when they next saw me.

Over the next year I ballooned out, went from about 68kg to 90kg+ in 1 year, felt impossible to keep the weight off.

my advice would be don't do it. Most of the people that promote that stuff are complete quacks.

Yeah the key is how you break the fast. Your body isn't used to eating normal amounts of food, so if you snap go back to normal eating, you'll put a lot of weight back on . Afterr not eating for so long, your metabolism is insanely slow for a while and my mistake last time was basically eating 10k calories the following day lmao. I haven't had the patience in the past to do it properly either.

complete fitness noob but isnt all this just way over the top calories if youre trying to bulk anyway? been following athlean-x youtube for a couple years now and i dont even think he eats close to these calories.
im likely wrong though, seems excessive and the rock level of calories.

cant imagine having enough time in the day to consume that many calories. how many times a day u **** ? must constantly be on the toilet

It's definitely too many cals hahah but again the advice i'd received was "when you think you've eaten enough, eat some more", which was probably not horrible advice 10 years ago.

I had a bit of a circuit mapped out around my apartment, early morning start would be chicken pad thai + chicken fried rice+egg + coffee at a 24/7 cafe, play my first session, next meal would be 2x chicken fried rices at a cheap place across the road, play my second session, then id go back out for a chicken fried rice + chicken cashew-nut, smash my preworkout and go to the gym, then I'd have a chicken fried rice + egg and a bowl of white rice with some fried chicken delivered to the house for post workout meal, then id play another session, then go back out two more times for more or less of the same ****. :')

Would actually have been ***** sick if i was training like twice a day or something, but ye it was way too much for a 2 hour gym session and then otherwise being pretty sedentary.

Oh and yes the sharts were something else.

Apologies for the delay in update, this was because my schedule has been somewhat erratic lately with moving house and haven't had a proper day off all month til now.

Poker



It's been a very slow start to March results-wise. Lost 10BI two days ago, amazing how many times you can run it into AA preflop, and then finally you get AA in a dream spot and when the money goes in, of course they have AA too. Feeling really good about my game though despite results - learning and improving everyday. People say in life making mistakes is okay as long as you learn from them but for me wrt poker it feels as though I have to make a mistake 2-3 times before I am able to really implement a meaningful strategy adjustment to prevent it from happening another time. If I make the mistake once, then the second time it'll manifest in a slightly different spot (like a different sizing, or different player type, etc) and it isn't until I've seen enough mutations of the same mistake that my brain learns from it. I don't think this is the case for everyone, some people are likely way better at adjusting. Regardless, playing lots of volume is really the best thing I can be doing it seems since it allows me to make the 2-3 necessary mistakes to improve in a shorter period of time, even at the expense of $.

Volume so far in March has been very low (64 hours) - found it was very difficult during the 10 day fast to concentrate for long periods of time and I've been busy settling into the new place. Going forward though I will look to resume some serious volume. I've now got my standing desk set up which will hopefully help me get through the 9+ hour days.

Diet/Health/Fitness

Last update at the end of last month I was about to embark on a 10 day fast, which I'm happy to say was a success. Initially I'd planned to do 5 days dry (no drinking water), but since I spent a couple days in a row out in the sun running around at immigration, assembling Ikea furniture, basically doing a lot more than I'd hoped, I decided to cut the dry fast short at 3 days and resume drinking water.

Think I lost about 8kg over the 10 days and I'm pleased to say the bubble gut / inflammation is gone. The last few days I've been back in the gym doing some full body stuff to ease back into lifting and avoid a crazy amount of DOMS.

The plan going forward is to continue 'cutting' down some excess bodyfat. I'll be doing an alternating day fasting protocol with a 72 thrown in about once a week. In other words, it'll look something like the following,

Day 1: train, eat lots
Day 2: train, fast
Day 3: train, eat lots
Day 4: rest, fast
Day 5: train, eat A LOT
Day 6: train, fast
Day 7: rest, fast

On the eating days I'll shoot for about 4k cal, 5-6k + sodium load on the day before the 72 hour fast. Every day I'm weighing myself and using scale feedback to determine things like exactly how much I need to be eating on the eating days.

Why?
Why do all of this and not just follow the tried and proven eat at a caloric deficit, lift and do cardio?
I think this is a great question and it reveals a lot about the current scientific progress of the field. We're now learning that diet is no longer so much a question of what to eat, but the much more important question is how often to eat. It's all about manipulating insulin levels, growth hormone levels, and metabolic rate.

There is inf research nowadays showing the comparison between the typical calorie restriction diet and prolonged fasting protocols. Fasting keeps your metabolism high, CR lowers it to the point that you need to constantly cut calories every week to the point where you're going to be extremely low on energy while working out/generally feeling like trash. CR also lowers growth hormone and test production as well as increasing cortisol - basically a calorie restriction protocol is the worst thing possible for your endocrine system and remaining anabolic.

When you're in a fasted state and break that fast, you're way more insulin sensitive which means your body makes better use of the food you're consuming. Additionally, your have a huge increase in GH which massively improves muscle protein synthesis, especially if you train fasted and then eat afterwards.

Anyway, I'm convinced this sort of a protocol is going to be the best way for me to get down super lean and maintain (possibly increase) muscle mass. We'll see how it goes over the next couple months anyway. Once I'm happy with the BFP I'll start a lean bulk on a similar protocol, except doing 72s closer to once a month.

Poker going forward

My focus for the time being is to resume playing a high amount of volume poker-wise as well as increase slightly the amount of study I'm doing. My short term goal is to get back to 500NL as quickly as possible. I could easily be playing 500NL now bankroll-wise, but I decided it would be wise to nit it up a bit in terms of bankroll management on account of losing close to half my savings last week with the crypto crash

Even though I talked at the start of this post about how slowly I seem to learn from mistakes, on the other hand I'm quite pleased because I can genuinely see the process of synthesizing these learning spots and feel as though it's moving at a good pace. When I was playing 5-6 hours a day, I feel as though the learning process was super drawn out and I relied more on coaching sessions to properly digest and synthesize strategy improvements. But now that I'm playing 8+ hours a day and doing daily reviews, I feel like even though I'm making more mistakes than before, my poker improvement metabolism if you will, is running at a much higher rate.

I'm really confident that I'll be shotting 500 again shortly (when I finally manage to string 2-3 winning days together ) which I'm excited for, if for no other reason than the fact that the rake is lower and I'll earn more monthly rakeback. I have no desire or ambition or hunger to rush back up to playing 1knl, I'm very happy just putting one foot in front of the other, playing whatever games I'm rolled for, continually improving, and just putting the hours in. Really enjoying the process.

Until next time!

are you also not able to consume pussy juice in this fast? if so i cant even consider it

black coffee, green tea, and pussy juice are acceptable during a fast.

Looks really swingy Mate
Awesome weight loss on fast I’m jealous
I’m 6ish foot and 95kg keen to lose 10 kg cos have dad bod this sounds like good strat to rapid loss

It seems counter intuitive but honestly the best way to lose weight fast IS to just stop eating. If you've got about 10kg you want to get rid of, I'd recommend doing something similar to what I did, 7-10 day fast kickstart everything, promote autophagy, and then go into a fasting protocol where you're eating every other day, maybe throw in the occasional 72. Will keep you guys posted as to how I do on this new protocol, how quick the fat loss is, how strength/muscle gains are affected too.

Gl

Did you buy the dip?

I really wish I had more money to buy crypto with atm

are you practicing social distancing? perhaps watch the thai lady boys on a screen rather than in real life on your bed.

They just announced today that they're closing all the bars for at least a couple weeks. So it seems I have no choice. But officially my stance is to maximize social interaction during this time to prime your immune system for dominance.

You get rakeback on ignition?

yup

How m8?

Add saculdrof on skype n tell him ya boi sent ya

March

Results



Graph is missing a few buyins and some hands because card catcher has been playing up for me quite a bit of late.

The whole month until about a week ago had been like most of this year, just getting slapped around pretty hard. I'd have 1-2 decent days and then just get murdered for 5-10BIs the next day.

Up until yesterday actually I'd managed to get some momentum going, and finally had the bankroll back to where I wanted it to shot 500nl again. The idea was to take a 4BI shot and I basically have about 2BI left on that, hoping for a little heat and to start playing better poker overall to be able to stay at 500nl for a while.

MTTs

Also flicked in a few ~$100 MTTs on PPPoker this month because all the recs are stuck at home playing poker to pass the time. Made about $3k AUD playing those. Also donated two buyins to the Milly anniversary, such an awesome story the guy who shipped it!

Doubt I'll be playing a lot more MTTs in April because I'm going to be getting up a wee bit earlier and focusing a lot more on cash volume this coming month, but who knows.

Volume

March for me has been a very slack one volume wise, I think around the 110 hour mark. I attribute a lot of this to Bodog having massive issues with lag and disconnects, and some days being completely unplayable. Still that's not an excuse and I've basically let the site-related issues be an excuse for not pushing myself this month.

April

Will be sticking pretty religiously to a schedule this month and think I'll be able to manage about 275 hours volume playing 6 days a week. I usually try get a full day off in each week and spend that day going out for breakfast/chilling in starbucks, updating this, but since everything is closed and I can't really go outside or do anything, I might end up playing a bit more poker on that day off. I've been getting pretty mad cabin fever not being able to go anywhere lately, so hopefully I can channel that into productivity this month.

Gl to everyone grinding poker , may the recs be plentiful

a wins a win man, decent little comeback too

gl in April!

Cheers Ben <3

With so few hands variance is going to play a big factor I guess
No slacking this month man cmon get on it!!

Thanks man, I'll admit I was motivated when I read that! But unfortunately it didn't last long...

I've been playing really poorly for the last few months and this last month has been extra bad. Like baaad poker. Everyday I would sit down ready to play and then just end up really annoyed by how bad I played and how many mistakes I'd make.

Decided because of that, now would be a crappy time to be strapped to the PC grinding volume. I was advised to basically take a break, which I really didn't want to do because the whole point of this thread is me hyping up how much volume I was planning on playing, and well taking a break is not playing volume lol. Regardless, it would have been stupid to have continued while playing the way I was. So I've basically taken the whole last week off to sit on my ass and not think too much about poker.

First session back today and we were tested by the guys playing 90+ VPIP as usual.



Sadly I didn't play much better today, but I don't expect to have magically fixed my performance woes by just taking a break. I'm hoping that by getting back into a healthy routine and focusing all my energy on every single hand as it happens, I'll be able to start playing good ball again.

Until that happens, I'm not going to stress about volume too much and hopefully by the end of this month I'm playing near my potential, and then I can start shifting the focus towards volume again.