Timing of Feed days is an issue--help

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Permalink Reply by JBF Mentor Meredith on November 28, 2011 at 7:32am

You could try this for the 1 feed day during the week and then go back to the lunchtime feed for the weekend feed day.  I would skip the wine though unless it is a special occasion, the alcohol will inhibit your hormonal response (of leptin) to the extra food on the feed day.  Try it for a month and see if it works - are you continuing to shed fat? then keep it up.

You still need to eat the apples 30 minutes before the feed meal.  I would also add a small lunch of protein & produce that day (what you would normally eat at the dinner time) - can even add a healthy carb since it is a feed day (try quinoa, a sweet potato, brown rice or winter squash)

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Permalink Reply by John Mulcahy on January 22, 2012 at 12:04am

I'm a teacher too, so i understand your problem precisely. Meredith's solution works great. I just want to add some ideas from my experience. Granted, ours schools probably follow different schedules, but while following EODD exactly is best, like Meredith said, if you are forced to monkey things around and are still getting results, you win.

Here's how I work EODD into our school schedule. 

Shake - regular breakfast (this was made the night before and kept in the fridge. No, not as good as fresh, but I have 20 minutes between waking up and getting out of the house.)

Almonds - before kids show up for morning homeroom. 

Apples - lunch (again, cut and dipped in lemon juice the night before to prevent browning. Sounds ewww, I know, but the lemon's tartness - of which you only get a hint -  and the apple's sweetness really work well together for me and others who have tried it - each with that what-are-you-trying-to-pull look before hesitantly taking that first bite. Brave souls our teachers!)

After dismissal - shake (this is the second half of the morning shake - I make a BIG 'un in the evening)

Dinner - Around 7 pm - I get home at 5, do my workout at 5:30, shower and relax for a little bit before eating.

As you can see, I switched the evening P to late afternoon and as a smoothie - but it works for me, which is another example of Meredith's point of if it's getting results.....

Your issue is with a feed meal during the day. In my case, I just used the regular school lunch as my feed meal. In our school (k-8) middle school recess is 10:40 - 11:10 and lunch 11:10 - 11:40. I'd just have my pre-feed apples at the start of recess - even if I was on recess duty. Not quite 30 minutes, but you do what you can with the situation you're in.  Now, if I was an elementary school teacher, lunch would be directly after the morning classes while middle school is having recess. That would make it difficult to have the pre-feed meal apple(s), but if I played with it for a while I'm sure I'd be able to eventually find a way around it. Maybe the kids are in another class last period before lunch some day? Maybe a morning snack for the class to let me have your pre-feed meal apples (hey, that late in the morning the kids are getting hungry anyway, why not 1/2 an apple or other small piece of fruit to tie them over)? Have pre-feed meal apples during lunch and my feed meal while the kids are out for recess? If I happen to have recess duty that day switch out with another teacher? 

Again, I realize your school schedule is probably different from mine, and I don't know how rigid your admin might be on some of my suggestions (ours are very flexible and supportive) or what other factors you have to deal with. Just trying to add to Meredith's already great solution.

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Permalink Reply by JBF Coach Sarah on January 25, 2012 at 8:37pm

I work in a call center - start time is different from one week to the next, sometimes it changes during the week. Break and lunch is all over the map.  I've solved the issue by having my shake (fresh, 'cause I hate being rushed and get up so I have at least an hour free between getting dressed and having to leave), I snack on my almonds between calls whether it's my allotted break or not, and if I have to punch an off-call code long enough to have my apple at the time I need to have it.

Depending on the shift, I'll either have my afternoon P at work, or at home; then a P + P supper, often way too late because my fiance gets off work only at 9:15 pm, so the time we get home (we have one car so I pick him up) and prepare supper it's often 9:30.

Gym wise ... I do have a membership at a gym literally across the highway from the apartment - as in out the door, down the street three houses to the highway, cross it and half a block up! Do I go? Frankly .. nope!

What I find easier, is to use the gym at work. I had signed up for it in October and was doing great there until my car accident in December which made me lay off for about 2 weeks ... then Christmas, and now preparing for fiscal year end ... all bad excuses, I know! So I'm resigning starting Feb.1st, promise :) either $5.- CAD/ month or $50.- for the year ... now my 3 months trial period is well behind me, I'll go with the year up front.

The point here is this:

EODD and 7MM are made to be somewhat flexible and adaptable to YOUR lifestyle!

I know many pro trainers say you should plan your life around your workouts. That's fine for them as they make their living being in shape. Most of us other " normal mortals" have to plan our lives around what gives us a pay check, as well as our families. and just make training and nutrition a priority after that/

Make it YOUR SNAPP. Adapt it to fit, just make sure you stay as close to the principles as you can.

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