16/8 fasting

nareykay

Would love all advice form fasters! How has it worked for you??? Also... how many calories am I supposed to be getting a day if I were to do 16/8?

StealthHealth

You should be eating the same calories as you would if you were eating all day. In other words, if your target (to lose 1lb per week) was 1700 cals then you would eat your full 1700 cals during your feed window.

IF is a way or eating that some people find helps with compliance rather than "a diet".

Bites_55

I do 16/8 fasting on week days. I pretty much just skip breakfast and eat lunch and dinner (600 cal each). My goal being 1200 daily during the week because I 'calorie cycle' (eat less during the week so I can eat more on weekends and still be at a deficit).

It works well for me because I like 2 bigger meals as oppose to 3 smaller meals, or snacks. IF isn't a magic solution or anything like that, but if you prefer larger meals it might be the way to go. Try sticking to it for a week before throwing in the towel - it takes some getting use to.

malibu927

16:8 is just fitting all of your calories into a smaller window. You would still eat the same amount of calories as if you ate throughout the day.

timtam163

I do 16:8; it just means skipping breakfast and avoiding late night snacks. It seems to work okay for me generally, but the past few mornings I've really needed breakfast. I've read that it doesn't work as well for non-obese or premenopausal women, and it does seem to be the case that my ability to stick to it fluctuates over the course of the month: it's alright for days 1:15 of my cycle, but after that it gets tough. It's an interesting experiment; try it!

krainovic_denis

There is no "best fasting window". You just have to find a diet which suits and is easy to follow for you. Doesnt matter if you follow a 16-8 or 20-4 window, you still have to eat the same amount of calories.

Maxematics

Some women do well on 16/8 or other splits but a 14/10 split to start is actually recommended for women by Martin of Leangains, one of the pioneers in making the 16/8 split popular. This is due to fluctuations in hormones causing some women to have slightly more adverse reactions to fasting in comparison to men. In the end, it really is up to you what type of fasting window works for you but if you want to ease into things, 14/10 may be a good split to start with.

kommodevaran

It works well for me, very easy to stick to, I just eat all three meals and all my calories within 8 hours. IF isn't a secret way to eat more and lose faster

Huskeryogi

16/8 works great for me when I have a desk job and can control my own hours. I went off it went I took an operations rotation. I had to eat when I had a few free min otherwise it might be hours until I had another opportunity and it was very active work.

I'm having trouble getting back on the schedule this time though. The first two weeks are tough. Once I get past those it will be easy again.

stelafaro

I have been doing 16/8 for a couple of weekends. I am going try doing it all this week and see how it works.

court_alacarte

I do a 16:8, 2-meal, 1200-1400 calorie/day plan and love it. I hate snacking and prefer to have huge meals that fill me up rather than graze all day.

nareykay

Have you been able to lose weight this way?

kommodevaran

nareykay wrote: »

Have you been able to lose weight this way?

This question pops up all the time, and for every method. And new people asking it all the time. There are just a few who haven't been mislead by the media and the diet industry, and the goverment/medical industry hasn't made any effort to clear things up. Adding to it is that we as humans want losing weight to be hard, but glorious, and fast, but painless. In reality, weight management is about doing ordinary things, and tolerating conflicts, day in, day out. There is no magic. A sustained calorie deficit makes you lose weight. Sustained calorie deficit means consistently eating less. 16/8 is just a way to make you able to consistently eat less. You still have to consistently eat less. Many people lose interest when they learn this. That's okay, and it's every person's right to make their own choice.

kokonani

I have tried 16:8, but it just made me eat over my calories because I was grazing and snacking for those 8 hours. What I really like is 23:1. One meal a day. I fit my entire calories (1500) into one ginormous meal. This keeps me satisfied and full to where I no longer even think about food. Plus my body fasts longer (23 hours) after I eat which is supposed to be beneficial to the body the longer fasting state it's in. I eat whatever I want, no restrictions! I always eat sweets and dessert. I'm at maintenance and I have been very happy with it so far.

BarneyRubbleMD

kokonani wrote: »

I have tried 16:8, but it just made me eat over my calories because I was grazing and snacking for those 8 hours. What I really like is 23:1. One meal a day. I fit my entire calories (1500) into one ginormous meal. This keeps me satisfied and full to where I no longer even think about food. Plus my body fasts longer (23 hours) after I eat which is supposed to be beneficial to the body the longer fasting state it's in. I eat whatever I want, no restrictions! I always eat sweets and dessert. I'm at maintenance and I have been very happy with it so far.

I use to eat that way (one meal a day) too back in 1994 & lost 94 lbs by 1995 and continued to eat that way with my one meal at 2pm and always including lots of carbs (noodles, bread, dessert but protein, some veggies and fruit too). It worked very well since I stayed full for the rest of the day/night but by 1999 I became diabetic, which runs in the family so that was expected to happen sometime, but I expected that to develop much later than it did (I was 40 years old in 1999). Now I'm an insulin-dependent diabetic and have to spread out what I eat across 4 meals with each meal separated by 3 hours and that's working out really well with only needing small insulin dosages to keep my blood sugars in check. I often wonder if my one-meal-a-day plan from back then would have worked out OK to the present day (& I not become a diabetic) if I had been a bit more careful regarding the total carbs I ate in that one meal (at least 300-400 gm) during my one-meal-a-day years.