I've been considering IF myself. I workout early in the day (5AM), but I have very long days - my last meal usually isn't until 8:30 in the evening. I wondered about how to set up an IF day - and could/should I do the protein after the workout like I usually do, if I start my feeding at say 2 PM.

Thanks OP for the article and you too bfitgirl for your experiences.

I have just started experimenting with IF in the last week. Started with a 24 hour fast (actually was more like 36 hours) from after dinner Friday night (and after friday night snacking) till Sunday morning. It was surprisingly easy. I am working towards some deadlines at the moment, so am at my computer till 2am most nights (not good I know, but short-lived) and the only difficult time was from around 11pm till I went to sleep around 2am. My stomach ached slightly from the hunger, but nothing too bad and I found going to sleep on an empty stomach really easy. And felt fantastic when i woke up the next morning.

Then I got to thinking, my really bad eating time is late at night, i snack on nuts, leftovers, whatever, and usually feel awful both physically and emotionally. So why not fast every night from after dinner (I eat early with my child) until the next day brunch/lunch? So that is what I have done this whole week, and it has felt really really good. I eat my first meal some time between 12 noon and 2pm and then dinner again some time between 6 and 8. I sometimes have a few nuts or something in the late afternoon, but not too much (it's not a binge time for me) and I am still eating my daily cals, not less.

The only challenge, and according to what I have read this will change as my body adapts to it better, has been that i run in the mornings and feel like i maybe need to find some kind of drink to have before I set out, as i run (read slow jog) between 8 and 10 kms and I felt a little weaker than usual this week. Thinking about a glass of coconut milk. I make my own fresh (I live in coconut land) so it seems like a good option.

But the point is, I feel great, the last stubborn kgs are definitely starting to move, and I'm not bingeing and therefore not feeling like s@%t. I don't think I will do this every day till noon, but i do think the notion of fasting and then "breakfast", in the true sense, has finally hit home to me. Nights have generally been filled with bingeing and remorse, and now i just tell myself, "I am fasting", and maybe it's just a stupid psychological trick I am playing on my own mind, but so far it's working!

Definitely worth experimenting with, in my opinion. Good luck.

I do ESE as well, once you are ketoadapted you feel very little hunger... Here is what I jotted down the second time i did ESE

ESE day 2

Today at 2 ends my second ESE day. No hunger no problems, sleeping on ESE is not as EaSE as one would like, lots of turning and tossing., weird dreams, not nightmares just weird. Not so much fun, however there is no energy shortage and no hunger during the day, although Ive had my fair share of teas in the last 24 hours,(which i believe is not a bad thing) Sort of struggling with my water at this moment, but nothing else to report. Elliptical this morning was non-challant to say the least, not particularly tiresome and the addition of 2 episodes of clone wars is great. Sort of worried when those end... well see what we do/how we deal when that happens. Trying to test weather this fast thing works, or if it just a continuatrion of the atkins cycle of low carb ketosis behavior, but in a slightly more drastic manner. Hopefully it will allow me to continue at the 2 lbs per week rate at the least. Took some 8 week pictures and there is a significant change, worried that my belly fat is not going away at the rate I would like, however chest is 1" down. I guess that still carrying 48 lbs of fat on my body allows it to choose from 168,000 available calories, and these come from anywhere they so desire..

Hope to end this week in the 210s giving me hope for the 31st of DEC 200 goal...that (assuming I make the 210 weigh in on friday) makes it a 2.5 lb per week loss...Easy!! I think that my regular low carb program, plus a single ESE day a week should put me within range of this goal.

I find it works well... and is really not that hard as long as you do 6 to 6, 9 to 9 is a killer..