INTERMITTENT FASTING MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD

BarbMessimer

rgsunday wrote: »

I seem to be ok w/ not eating after 8pm and eating @ noon next day. Does it count as fasting if you drink chocolate milk (2% lactose free milk) after 8pm? There are times I get such a craving for sweets that I figure drinking chocolate milk may help. Also, there are a lot of times I get so hungry and want to snack on everything when I get home(5pm) from work. Even if I've eaten a turkey cheddar sandwich with chips and a snack for lunch, I still feel so hungry a lot of times when I get homer. Do some of you deal with this and if so, do you just drink a lot of water if you do feel these cravings to help to avoid overeating even during fasting timeframe? I feel I do so great fasting and then ruin it by eating so many snacks even before 8pm. Not sure why i still feel so hungry even after eating a pretty good-sized lunch.

That has been my biggest challenge. I can go all day without a bite, have dinner and then several hours later, I'm craving something to eat. It used to be sweets but now if I really MUST have something, I eat some protein like a hard boiled egg or whatever meat was left from dinner. (I always save a little "just in case".) A keep raw nuts on hand too.

But I'm really trying hard to break the before bedtime snacking habit. I think I'd do a lot better with Intermittent Fasting if I did.

ForestGryl

rgsunday wrote: »

I seem to be ok w/ not eating after 8pm and eating @ noon next day. Does it count as fasting if you drink chocolate milk (2% lactose free milk) after 8pm? There are times I get such a craving for sweets that I figure drinking chocolate milk may help. Also, there are a lot of times I get so hungry and want to snack on everything when I get home(5pm) from work. Even if I've eaten a turkey cheddar sandwich with chips and a snack for lunch, I still feel so hungry a lot of times when I get homer. Do some of you deal with this and if so, do you just drink a lot of water if you do feel these cravings to help to avoid overeating even during fasting timeframe? I feel I do so great fasting and then ruin it by eating so many snacks even before 8pm. Not sure why i still feel so hungry even after eating a pretty good-sized lunch.

A couple suggestions. FInd a zero calorie sweetener and add to 0 calorie almond milk. Some consider it a dirty fast but others don't because its 0 calorie but its a bit of sweet if you think it will hold off the other foods. I heard it noted above to check blood sugar before and after so that might be a good strategy to figure out if it is a dirty fast or fine for your body.

Also when I was starting my IF or trying to lengthen it I would eat foods when I was hungry that I didn't really like but would do the job (keto bars that I don't really like the flavour of but don't hate) and make sure if a couple bites is enough I stop there after my stomach was full enough. It breaks the fast but it also helped my stop the habit because if I knew my only option was meh foods then I would keep my fast if it was psychological instead of hunger.

ForestGryl

Rebe_Hawaii wrote: »

Does anyone use an app to keep track of IF? I know fitness pal has one but you have to be a premium member to use it.

I use Fastic, as well as the my fitness pal. I like how you can earn off days so you aren't breaking a fasting streak when you include rest days (my fitness pal doesn't do this so I just record a fast to keep my streak but keep track of actual fasting days on Fastic). Also it is a widget on apple that I can add to my quick first page so super easy to access. I like the my fitness pal as well because I have all my nutritional stuff in one place as fastic only does fasting so I record in both.

200Karen

I'm restarting my commitment to health

Thanks for sharing your journeys

mdapson

marmax4904 wrote: »

Everyone is different but.... Every study of intermittent fasting I've read suggested that while it works to help you eat less, it actually does make you feel worse. Feelings of hunger and fatigue--and the distraction they cause--were the no. 1 reason so few study participants were able to sustain IF after just a few weeks or months. The literature also suggest IF's results are merely due to caloric restriction and that it's no better at causing weight loss than non-IF caloric restriction.

Nonsense. You have no clue what you're talking about. Don't discourage people with BS like this. People stop because they lack the discipline to fight through the initial discomfort of your body reacting to you stopping eating trash, ALL day long.

BarbMessimer

I've been intermittent fasting for 2 years and never felt better. So much energy and enthusiasm for life and so much healthier. Dropped 63 pounds as an added bonus.

PJFinSJ

I've great to read everyone's stories about their experiences with IF! I've been doing IF on/off for about 5 years now. Recently, I fell 'off the wagon' with IF and with good eating, too! I needed to be reminded of how good I felt (and looked) when doing IF and eating healthy. When I'm doing IF and eating right, everything "clicks" - my thinking is clearer, I have more energy and the pounds start to come off. When first starting out, I tried to stick to an eating window from 5-9 to have a 20 hour fast, but it was a challenge for me to eat 1600-1800 calories in only 4 hours. Recently, I read an article that suggested eating earlier in the day - during daylight hours - resulted in greater weight loss. So I moved my eating window earlier and extended it by one hour. I eat between 3-8 pm (daylight savings time) and it is more comfortable/sustainable. I've lost 55 lbs so far (including 25# gained/lost during Covid). I'm halfway, I have 55 lbs to go before reaching my goal weight of 159. I'm 5'6" tall, so that will "just" put me in the "normal" BMI. I don't think BMI is the best/only determinant of a healthy weight, but doctor's offices still use it and I aim to get to a "normal" BMI and have the term "morbidly obese" removed from my medical chart!

treeburger

Happy Monday! As I suspected I did not do well this weekend, but I am back on today and have picked up a bunch of items to help me though the week. My main issue is planning for my fasts. I need to get better with that for sure! Here's to a new day and new week.

BarbMessimer

PJFinSJ wrote: »

I've great to read everyone's stories about their experiences with IF! I've been doing IF on/off for about 5 years now. Recently, I fell 'off the wagon' with IF and with good eating, too! I needed to be reminded of how good I felt (and looked) when doing IF and eating healthy. When I'm doing IF and eating right, everything "clicks" - my thinking is clearer, I have more energy and the pounds start to come off. When first starting out, I tried to stick to an eating window from 5-9 to have a 20 hour fast, but it was a challenge for me to eat 1600-1800 calories in only 4 hours. Recently, I read an article that suggested eating earlier in the day - during daylight hours - resulted in greater weight loss. So I moved my eating window earlier and extended it by one hour. I eat between 3-8 pm (daylight savings time) and it is more comfortable/sustainable. I've lost 55 lbs so far (including 25# gained/lost during Covid). I'm halfway, I have 55 lbs to go before reaching my goal weight of 159. I'm 5'6" tall, so that will "just" put me in the "normal" BMI. I don't think BMI is the best/only determinant of a healthy weight, but doctor's offices still use it and I aim to get to a "normal" BMI and have the term "morbidly obese" removed from my medical chart!

I hear you. It was a great day when they removed that "morbidly obese" diagnosis from my record. I'm thinking of moving my eating window up to 3-8 PM like you and start counting calories. I've been on a plateau and need to lose 37 more for an even 100 pound weight loss.