16:8 diet?

My success isn't finished but so far intermittent fasting is helping me succeed because I can keep to my calorie goal easier. I don't like to eat before around 2pm anyway whether restricting calories or not. If you don't mind eating most of the day it can helpful. I would think it would be hard if you like breakfast or your body needs breakfast. My husband feels terrible if he skips breakfast.

I always thought that this pattern of eating was "unhealthy" so when trying to lose, I'd try to change to eating 3 meals a day, especially breakfast. I was hungry at night. It felt like the breakfast calories didn't exist except on my hips. I think giving in to my natural way of eating is the best way to maintain once I'm done losing. Accepting this was kind of difficult because of all the noise that says you must eat breakfast in order to be healthy or that your metabolism slows down without breakfast.

It can be challenging when my routine is interrupted like during the holidays or when my husband wants to go out to lunch. I deal with it by adjusting my calories for the rest of the day because that's life. I want to be able to go out to lunch with my husband sometimes.

This is a group devoted to intermittent fasting - http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/49-intermittent-fasting

I do 16:8 although recently I've not been strict about it (recovering from pneumonia). I really like it. I still count my calories and find it to be absolutely necessary that I do but I love having two big meals as opposed to 3 regular/smaller ones. I've lost weight too (you know, because I count my calories to be in a deficit).

Hiya, I've lost 6 stone in the last year 1/1/15-1/1/16 doing 16:8 diet. I've never been a breakfast eater as I have a horse and have to see to him before getting to work at 8 am do just don't have time, my lunch break is 12.30 and I always have my last meal before 8.30. I would say 95% of the time I stick to this but sometimes my last meal might be as late as 10pm. I think it just allows me to have huge dinners of 900-1000 cals as I'm definitely a volume eater!

Haven't fully converted yet, but will be starting One Meal A Day (OMAD) probably next week. Many think this is a fad, but for me it's not. I literally am not hungry at any time of the day except in the evening, so I may as well only eat then. And at that point, I am getting my calories, I don't feel like I'm starving, and it is very easy to track. Pretty sure I can stick with it forever.

And if I go on vacation and they have breakfasts served to us, no harm in going off OMAD for a bit then hopping back on.