Intermittent fasting calories

rach3365

Hey all! I just started giving a go at intermittent fasting. I don’t eat from 8pm-12pm. Question is....between noon and 8pm when I am eating, do I need to be eating my entire 1430 calorie limit? Seems like a lot. I have like 600 calories left over for today

MichelleSilverleaf

Yes you need to eat it all. Your body still needs fuel, it's not going to get it all from your own reserves.

cwolfman13

Yeah...that means you've only eaten 830 calories...that's like under doctors supervision territory. If you can't get your calories in doing IF, you shouldn't do IF...there's nothing magical about it.

Panini911

you 100% need to eat all your calories daily in your eating window. chose foods that are more calorie dense or open your eating window.

questionfear

You definitely need to eat more. I have been doing 16/8, and I end up with 700+ calories at lunch/snack, and another 700-800 at dinner/around dinnertime. Basically I wind up breaking my window down with about an hour of eating from 12-1, then light snacks and/or just water until around 630ish where I eat dinner and stop between 730-8. It feels really weird at first to see a meal that high in calories but it makes sense broken down for a whole day.

greenie83

Eat bigger meals.

burnsdanna

Im fasting 18 hours daily with 6 hour eating window, i did struggle initially to get all my calories eaten too but found upping my fat intake ( butter, advocado etc) helped , still leave around 200 daily for a treat or two , love fasting , its so freeing not having to think about breakfast or lunch !! I feel fantastic actually and not just because Im dropping weight

slowloser1

I am doing the same IF and eating my calories but still not losing any please help

j010219

slowloser1 wrote: »

I am doing the same IF and eating my calories but still not losing any please help

This would mean you're not in a consistent deficit. Make sure you're tracking right and creating the deficit you need.