/lit/ - Literature

Right now, I exercise six days a week. I lift weights on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and I do cardio on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Sunday is my rest day.

But I am thinking of changing things up. Specifically, I am thinking about swapping out my Tuesday/Thursday cardio days for fasting days. I've been reading up on intermittent fasting, and I think I could do that "5:2" model, replacing my cardio on Tuesday and Thursday with making sure I eat substantially less than 1000 calories on those days.

I think this might be effective because I am naturally kind of a big eater. I like good food and I like good alcohol. So often, when it comes to restricting calories, it's easier to just not eat at all, and not eat some meals, than to actively eat less at every meal. It's something my mind is more capable of doing.

Additionally, I do work pretty hard when I do cardio. But in the end, how many calories do I actually burn with each cardio session? 400? 500? Maybe 600 if I work really hard? It doesn't compare to how much I eat on a normal day. But if I were to do fasting days instead of cardio days, I could potentially have a deficit of literally thousands of calories on those days, compared to what I'm like now. The amount of calories I could drop from fasting seems like it's vastly greater than the amount I drop doing cardio.

And I'd still keep my cardio day on Saturday to make sure that I don't go two days at a time without raising my heart rate.

Does this seem like a good idea? I guess I should ask /fit/, right?

I've been writing fanfics since I was in middle school, and I'm still doing it, even as I have moved on to original fiction (and poetry). These days I, of course, devote more time and more energy to my original fiction, and my poetry. But it is still fun to bang out a fanfic from time to time, exactly for the reasons you describe.

Basically, just knuckle down and become more productive, OP. You will have time for both original fiction and fanfiction if you manage things right. But it would probably be better for you to devote MORE time to original fiction, because it has more value as a work of art and also because you could potentially get your original fiction published and perhaps make some money off of it.

Megan I fucking know that's you. There's TWO threads up about you in the catalog right now but nobody's given a shit about you on 4chan in years. You're such a transparent, easily readable bitch. You get a tattoo of 4chan on your nasty foot and all of a sudden /lit/ has threads about you. You came crawling to us for attention. It's pathetic.