Opinions on intermittent fasting?

I started adjusting my meal times toward this concept as well. The main reason being is that if I ate first thing in the morning (most important meal of the day) by the time 3-4 oclock in the afternoon came I WAS STARVING and felt like I could eat just about any Man vs Food challenge.

So what I decided to do was put off breakfast until about 11am. A reason is that Im not that hungry in the mornings and coffee (black) pretty much ties me over until then. So I start at about 11am and eat my meals until about 6-7pm in the evening. I didnt calculate the hours out to be this way, it just kind of works out this way.

Ive only been doing this for about 3 weeks and so far I am loving it. The only negative effects I have felt so far is that I might need to add some sort of pre-workout drink because depending on some of the workouts I do, I am getting VERY TIRED about 1/2 through.

Maybe going to bed earlier I sleep from 9pm to 5.30/6.00 which means I would have to eat at 2pm if I stopped at 8 could be done but would be hard x

I've just started a leangains style regime. I'm going for a 'cut'; so I generally eat 10% over TDEE on workout days and 35% or so under on rest days.

Only started on 1st Feb so can't really comment on how it's going so far - however, for the three weeks prior to that I was pretty much following the same eating hours, but eating a lot of calories, often over 4000 I reckon.

Despite that, my weight stayed pretty constant.
I suspect it was a combination of the 3x a week heavy lifting workouts I've been doing with the 'intermittent fasting' that led me to not put on the few pounds I was expecting.
The weight I'm lifting is still going up despite being on a 'cut'; I'm hoping I've got a fair bit of 'newbie gains' to go.

Started doing weights mid December and now deadlifting bodyweight+23% (but need to pick up some more metal weights I've won on ebay as I've run out of room on the bar!), squatting maybe bodyweight+21% and bench pressing 95% of bodyweight. Also just started doing weighted pull ups with 8% bodyweight added.

I'm sure I've done "not eating breakfast" before. I've done weights before, but not properly heavy barbell stuff. I'm reckoning it's the combination of the two that's working nicely together.

Oh and yes, for me it does make it easier to stick to calorie limits too - you know you might be a bit hungry in the mornings, especially when there's two low calorie days, but then you're more satisfied through the day. Certainly overall find it easier to eat the right calories by missing breakfast.

Lots of people are doing different types of IF on here. Search the groups section for intermittent fasting. There are a few.

First, there are as many different forms of intermittent fasting as there are colors in a crayola box. You can do an IF cycle where you fast 2 days of the week and eat normally for 5, or fast 1 day and eat normally for 6. Or you can do a 20:4 (fast 20 hours eat 4) everyday or only certain days of the week. Or you can do the 16:8 or 18:6.

I practice intermittent fasting. Since joining MFP (Jan 15) I have lost 10 lbs. Before that I had lost 24 lbs (in 2 months) using IF.

What works best for me is doing at least 16 hours and fasting as long as I can shooting for 20:4 everyday. Some days after 16 or 18 hours I'm ravenous so those days I eat after 16 or 18 hours. Other days it doesn't bother me so I fast for 20 or 24 hours. And some days I wake up starving so I don't fast on those days (I try to make those days only 1 per week)

There have been studies that show that there is better weight loss (and more of it fat) with intermittent fasting.

I have seen through here that some people use leangains.com as a resource. There are tons of websites that can help and provide more information. (I'd be happy to answer any questions I can)

IF is a great way to lose. It boosts HGH (Human Growth Hormones) and gives weight loss benefits. I eat one major meal a day at night (6-7PM) and then try not to snack on anything till around 3PM the next day. 16-24 hours fasts are ideal. If you go beyond that, your body may start doing negative things like taking muscle. We are hardwired to IF. Imagine our ancestors... foraging or hunting wild game.. they may stalk something all day, and then be able to eat.. or not catch it and eat more the next day! The key is, also, when you do eat, eat good whole foods!! Just cause you don't eat for periods of time, doesn't mean eat cookies and brownies!!! To see better loss, also try to make the meal you do eat, just enough to satisfy yourself, that way when you fast, you are drawing on your reserves! Also.. caffeine is helpful as it helps to get fat cells to release energy... Check out www.marksdailyapple.com for more info!! hope that helps!!!

I started adjusting my meal times toward this concept as well. The main reason being is that if I ate first thing in the morning (most important meal of the day) by the time 3-4 oclock in the afternoon came I WAS STARVING and felt like I could eat just about any Man vs Food challenge.

So what I decided to do was put off breakfast until about 11am. A reason is that Im not that hungry in the mornings and coffee (black) pretty much ties me over until then. So I start at about 11am and eat my meals until about 6-7pm in the evening. I didnt calculate the hours out to be this way, it just kind of works out this way.

Ive only been doing this for about 3 weeks and so far I am loving it. The only negative effects I have felt so far is that I might need to add some sort of pre-workout drink because depending on some of the workouts I do, I am getting VERY TIRED about 1/2 through.

I've done this since April 19 2012 when I started my journey. I found if I eat breakfast I'm just as hungry as if I hadn't. I am intermittent fasting without purposefully doing so. I begin to eat at 12:30pm and stop eating by 9pm everyday. I've lost almost 55lb consistently with good diet and exercise.