Fasting for 11 hours

LisaMoxon155
LisaMoxon155 Posts: 264 Member
edited May 12 in Health and Weight Loss
I'm back on my fitness pal for the, who knows how many time. I want to combine fasting in my routine.
With my work pattern I wake at 5pm and have a coffee in bed, I eat breakfast at 630am approx. I have my day set for lunch and then have tea at around 5pm to 530pm. I usually want a sweet after tea but like to wait an hour or so and have 7pm to 730pm.

I can manage an 11hour ish fasting period, is this still beneficial?

On my days off I can manage the 12hours if not longer.

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  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,826 Member
    I'm not sure what benefits you think fasting has, there is a lot of 'woo' out there on the internet touting magical properties.

    Fasting for weight loss works by limiting the number of hours per day you can eat. You still need to make sure your in a calorie deficit/not eating too much within your eating window.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,416 Member
    edited May 12
    Yeah, what she ^ said.

    The only way it helps with weight loss is if you eat fewer calories to create a calorie deficit. I can overeat my day's calories in three hours!

    What you propose will certainly work if you stay within your calories. Full stop. I fast for 12-14 hours every day just because I eat three meals like I've done all my life. I've been at a healthy weight, morbidly obese, and everything in between by doing this.

    Sometimes people do well with a Rule of XX number of hours of eating, or "closing the kitchen at X o'clock." That's a psychological trick - and lots of those work.
    If you're doing fasting for some magical other reason, carry on. :flowerforyou:
  • tomcustombuilder
    tomcustombuilder Posts: 2,221 Member
    LisaMoxon155 wrote: »
    I'm back on my fitness pal for the, who knows how many time. I want to combine fasting in my routine.
    With my work pattern I wake at 5pm and have a coffee in bed, I eat breakfast at 630am approx. I have my day set for lunch and then have tea at around 5pm to 530pm. I usually want a sweet after tea but like to wait an hour or so and have 7pm to 730pm.

    I can manage an 11hour ish fasting period, is this still beneficial?

    On my days off I can manage the 12hours if not longer.
    why are you fasting for 11 hours?

  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,216 Member
    edited May 12
    CICO is still the metabolic mechanism that dictates weight loss or weight gain, full stop.

    Dr. Panda who runs a laboratory in the Salk Institute for Biological Studies showed that TRE (time restricted eating) who also was the first to approach this concept used mice models originally and when compared to mice that were fed over a longer time were slimmer and much healthier which can possibly have significant implications for human health, particularly in understanding how TRE can potentially influence weight management, metabolic health, and overall well-being. The success of these mouse studies has indeed encouraged more research into the benefits of TRE and Dr. Panda then started human trials in 2016 and subsequently there's lots of ongoing studies now by many labs around the world doing just that.

    The research so far does show many health benefit and in science this is still in it's infancy but so far what they're finding is indeed beneficial for overall health, but as Dr. Panda tries to communicate TRE is a lifestyle intervention where it's the lifelong effects that will contribute to our longevity and not a quick fix as a weight loss solution, because again the real benefits are found later in life and not in the 2 or 6 months someone believes it's going to help them lose weight. Proof of this will be when we see more and more people complaining it didn't work as advertised and they're giving it another go, or it's all BS and it made them eat more, the scenarios will be interesting to read, so there is that to look fwd to, imo.

    Here's an easy to understand paper with links to studies showing those health benefits.

    https://medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323605

    Other RCT links:

    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2787246

    Intermittent Fasting and Obesity-Related Health Outcomes
    An Umbrella Review of Meta-analyses of Randomized Clinical Trials

    https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-023-07843-7

    InterVFast—effectiveness and acceptance of intermittent fasting in cardiac rehabilitation patients: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial

    https://mdpi.com/2673-4540/4/4/44

    Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes: The Role of Intermittent Fasting





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