I just started it a few days ago since I'm not hungry until lunch anyway. I have BPC W/butter & coconut oil for breakfast & do lunch & dinner between 1pm-8pm. I feel great & I think that between IF & giving up dairy, artificial sweeteners & diet soda this week, my clothes are looser! I will weigh eventually but I hate my scale, so loose clothing works for me & it seems I'm finally over my 5 week stall!

I have not really noticed any difference. So far so good. I feel fine. My scale is broken, so I don't know if my weight has moved

Hi there,

I am starting to combine LCHF with IF after reading Moseley's book. I have previously gone a few days on a naturally occuring 23 hours fast, just eating one main meal around 5 pm and it was quite OK but I have settled into my routine of a "bacon and eggs" style breakfast and substantial evening meal with little or no lunch. I just don't feel hungry so it's no big deal.

I watch some Butter Bob videos and he made the point that eating a lot of fat doesn't MAKE you thin so much as it creates the opportunity for you to use IF as part of a more healthy lifestyle because you are just not hungry. So it comes back to eating when you are hungry and not eating when you are not hungry.

I'm in very slow fat loss and body recomposition now.

I don't really watch weight so much but go by body fat percentage.

I don't fast ever since I'm almost always sore somewhere on my body.

I get up sometimes in the middle of the night to have a protein shake

In the early days of this diet adventure I almost never ate breakfast. It made me hungry! And the 14 hours of not eating seemed to help reduce my glycogen levels.

If I wanted to take a break from body composition and just drop a few pounds in a month, the first thing I would do is skip breakfast again!

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CoconuttyMummy wrote: »

@DittoDan - Do you always feel hungrier after your water fasts? Often? Sometimes? Rarely? Im just wondering whether this extra hunger is a given, or if you can reasonably expect to bank a few unused calories post-fast, on occasion. As it is, i wonder if you actually eat more calories on average when you fast, due to the increased hunger the following day? But then, does an increase in metabolism essentially take care of that?

Sooo many questions about fasting!

I need to make a blog about my experiences. I just have to find the time.

Yes, I am hungry, but the level of hunger is only slightly more than normal. In other words, I am less hungry than when I was a carboholic after 4 hours of not eating carbs. When I was a carboholic, I physically would salivate at the sight, smell or even talking about food. Not anymore, and not after a fast. Actually, if I keep busy doing things, I can extend my fast. I don't know about metabolism, I don't know how I would test that and anything I surmised would just be pure conjecture. There are too many variables in my life. Not hardly one day is the same with me. You give me a metabolism meter and I'll check myself...

I hope this helps,
Dan the Man from Michigan
Keto / IF / Sedentary
92 pounds down, 32 to go.

About that blog I always promised, well, I did it a little better than that. I actually made a whole MFP discussion group for it.

If your interested, send me an MFP e-mail and I direct you to it.

I hope this helps,
Dan the Man from Michigan
Keto / Water Fasting / E.A.S.Y. Exercise Program
107 pounds down, 17 to go.

I love the versatility of this LCHF WOE. I do love fasting too, and have a long history of trying many different types of fasts, since way before I started eating LCHF and joined MFP a little over 6 months ago.

I used to eat 3 meals per day, but when I switched to keto from primal, I naturally morphed into needing to eat just breakfast and supper, no longer needing to eat lunch due to the higher fat content of my meals keeping me feel full. That lead to not needing to eat breakfast as long as I had BPC in the am. My usual pattern of eating is now to fast for 23 hours daily, then eat supper. On the weekends I will do a fast for 48-66 hours, but have also just completed my second Dan method water fast ...on a workday, which had scared me at first, but I now find this quite easy. Even with a ton of stress at work right now. The most amazing discovery is that I have found that I have not resorted to emotional eating to comfort myself during times of stress, like I used to do in the past.

I think that LCHF and IF work very well for me. I would recommend.