After... after eight years... I can't do it! Hey, welcome back to the channel. My name is Seamland and I want to make this introduction about how I'm going to stop doing 16-in-eighth method of interval fasting. And by the way, if you've seen my videos previously, if you've watched my channel for a long time, then you know that I've actually been doing one meter day for the last five years. But in this video, I wanted to just, you know, go through why I switched over from 16-in-eight into one meter day in the first place when I did it five years ago. Make sure to click like and subscribe as well for future videos about what up them as your health and performance. I've been doing interval fasting in some shape or form since the end of high school. And by now, it's almost like 10 years. I've been doing it consistently. I've tried different methods of interval fasting. I've tried one meal a day. I've tried the warrior diet. I've tried extended fasting. I've tried alternate the fasting and the 16-in-eighth method. I think that the 16-in-eighth method is actually one of the best methods and the best windows we're doing in interval fasting. I think it can work virtually for all people and can give you, you know, the vast majority of results that you're looking for when you're doing interval fasting, whether that be body composition, productivity or longevity and health and those kind of things. 16-in-eighth method is a great, is one of the best ways of doing interval fasting in my opinion. Actually, I did the 16-in-eighth method for the first five years of my interval fasting journey. I saw great results from it. I still progressed at the gym. I was getting stronger. I was building muscle. I would never go back to like a three-meal a day schedule, but I would still do some form of 16-in-eighth at least. So the reason I stopped doing the 16-in-eighth method around five years ago when I switched over to one meal day didn't have anything to do with the 16-in-eighth method, you know, of itself. It still worked. It still gave me great results. I could have kept going. But the reason I switched over to eating one meal a day was because of mostly like time management. Like back then, I was actually the first starting this YouTube channel and first starting my blog and everything that I rated to, you know, starting to write books and all those things. So I had to have like a lot more time. In a sense, I was like really, you know, working hard and working long hours every day. Basically, I was working from the moment I woke up until the moment I went to bed. It made sense for me to even skip the second meal that I was having. And I was switched over to just eating one meal a day. And that was what motivated me in the first place to switch over to one meal a day. That was mostly like time management and productivity wise. Nice. From a health side, I didn't see any like drastic changes. From the work outside, I didn't see any like huge changes either. The most biggest reason had to do with just, you know, time management. End of flashback. Now I've been doing one meal a day for five years. I've tried different methods of doing one meal a day as well. I've tried the strict one meal a day where you're literally eating only one meal a day. But I've also incorporated having like a protein shake and some amino acids during the fasted window before you're working out. This is obviously much better in terms of strength and muscle growth. If you're eating only one meal a day, it doesn't really work the best for, let's say, resistance training and working out. But you're not going to be like as strong and as big and as, let's say, fit as you could be if you have like additional protein intake before that one meal a day. I still do the one meal a day for the productivity and all the time management wise. Just for this reason alone, I want to continue doing the one meal a day. But to overcome the limit of this fitness aspect and body composition aspect, then I incorporate this protein shake and amino acids before working out. And that gives me basically the like maintains my time management and productivity. And at the same time, I'm still able to build muscle and get stronger over time. I did actually return to doing the 16 and 8 method just to experiment and to break things up a little bit. A few months ago to see what happens, I did eat two meals a day consistently for maybe a few weeks. I didn't see like any negative changes either. Like I didn't have like any like maladaptation or anything like that. I just didn't feel comfortable for me. I just you know prefer to just eat one meal a day and the rest of the day kind of fast. It keeps me a bit hungry. Like I think that small hunger is actually that I enjoy. Like I enjoy getting a bit of hungry during daytime for both the cognitive and the like physical benefits that I get from that. It maintains maybe like a bit of yeah, a bit of like this drive, a bit of more focus, mental sharpness. Those kind of things I see more when I do one meal a day. Obviously this is not suitable for people who are comfortable with hunger. There are many types of individuals who may not be like suitable for going that long times without eating. Actually they may get mood issues, they may get anger issues, they may get pissed off. In that case you don't need to do that. I'm not saying one meal a day is the best. It's just suits for me. Maybe some other individuals will. But a certain type of individual who tends to like get overly stressed out, overly anxious, overly moody, overly angry, or they may overly overeat after they break the fast. Then for them one meal a day is unsuitable. For them the 68 method is perfect. And even then like you don't need to do the 68 precisely, you can even do just a fast of 12 hours or 14 hours. That already is very good from us to cater with them inside and it does help to not spend the majority of the day in a state already. So the reason I stopped doing the 68 method has nothing to do with the 68 method itself. It's just that I prefer to spend more time in a fast state. I like the mental acuity and sharpness and the lightness that I get from that. It hasn't interfered with my body composition or fitness side either. But I do have to incorporate some protein before my actual meal so that I could progress in the gym. Like with a strict one meal a day, I haven't seen that it's possible because of your being too catabolic essentially. Usually I have the protein shake during my workout which is around like 20 hours of fasting. So it's you know it's a very still an arrow time gap but it does give me like this additional boost that I need to maintain progress. If you do want to learn about inner but fasting and want to do it without the side effects and get all the benefits, then I check out my video course about it. It's over five hours. It has over 35 videos and it's 4k quality HD and it's very well made. And that's thanks for watching this video. Make sure you click like, subscribe, notification, well as well my name is Seem. Stay optimized, stay empowered.