We are pleased to announce that as of March 4, 2025, an updated Rich Text Editor has been introduced in the MyFitnessPal Community. To learn more about the changes, please click here. We look forward to sharing this new feature with you!

Attempting (I)ntermittent (F)asting, but...

myheartsabattleground
myheartsabattleground Posts: 2,040 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I take medication, of which I'm instructed to take before bedtime. As a side effect it makes me hungry, and I can't sleep when I'm hungry.

help?!?!

Replies

  • curtismccall
    curtismccall Posts: 27 Member
    You need to find an eating pattern that works for you to keep you from feeling deprived while still keeping you in a deficit. Everything seems to point in another direction besides IF for that. Otherwise I have been doing IF for months now and the hardest part was developing the willpower to resist eating when I wasn't supposed to. After a few days it becomes easier and now it doesn't even bother me anymore until its in my eating window. Might be the same case for you. Tough it out until it gets easier
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    Move your meals around so that you eat before bed.
  • ladyhusker39
    ladyhusker39 Posts: 1,406 Member
    Eat before you go to bed? IF is just an eating schedule. It's not something magical. If it doesn't work for you, there's no particular reason to do it.

    Though it is one of the bigger fads right now, so I get why you feel you need to try it, but that's not necessarily the case.
This discussion has been closed.

Categories