Fasting 19 hours a day
cathode1977
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Is any one out there trying 19 hour fast diet you still eat the the same food just got n five hours to eat it
I have my breakfast at 2pm lunch at 3pm and dinner at 6pm I am on day 4 and all is going no well finding I am snacking less as I am full for the eating part of the days but macros are all the same stomach is less blotted and I seem to be mo e alert during the mornings you can drink herbal tea and water during the fasting bit
I have my breakfast at 2pm lunch at 3pm and dinner at 6pm I am on day 4 and all is going no well finding I am snacking less as I am full for the eating part of the days but macros are all the same stomach is less blotted and I seem to be mo e alert during the mornings you can drink herbal tea and water during the fasting bit
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Hey, can I ask how many calories you eat while fasting?0
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1400 -16000
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My sister is doing it and has lost. 9ib in3weeks she said the 1st week she only lost one ib in but the second week the weight started to fall off0
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I haven't heard of that site.
But I am familiar with intermittent fasting. Right now I do 16/8.
Fasting is showing some surprising benefits besides weight control. I encourage researching
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This works for some people. As long as you are still getting a healthy number of calories and can sustain it I don't see a problem.0
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I did it for over a year. Lost 30 lbs. Fasted 16 hours, ate 8 hours. It's called intermittent fasting, or IF. I loved it and wish I could keep doing it, but I'm now insulin dependent and can't. But if I were to do it again, for me, I'd need to eat smaller meals, and very low carb, because eating full meals that close together elevates my blood sugar and keeps it too high.
I too felt really clear headed and full of energy when I did IF. It turned out that I had strong sensitivities to some foods I normally ate in the mornings. When I eliminated those foods from my diet, I felt clear headed and full of energy all the time. I had to stop eating soy, dairy, and wheat. I'm so sensitive to soy that I have to find pasture raised poultry products because soy feed for chickens even affects me when I eat eggs. Now I eat eggs I get from someone who let's their chickens roam free in the pasture, and supplements with soy-free non-GMO feed, and I can eat eggs every day.0 -
I did it for over a year. Lost 30 lbs. Fasted 16 hours, ate 8 hours. It's called intermittent fasting, or IF. I loved it and wish I could keep doing it, but I'm now insulin dependent and can't. But if I were to do it again, for me, I'd need to eat smaller meals, and very low carb, because eating full meals that close together elevates my blood sugar and keeps it too high.
I too felt really clear headed and full of energy when I did IF. It turned out that I had strong sensitivities to some foods I normally ate in the mornings. When I eliminated those foods from my diet, I felt clear headed and full of energy all the time. I had to stop eating soy, dairy, and wheat. I'm so sensitive to soy that I have to find pasture raised poultry products because soy feed for chickens even affects me when I eat eggs. Now I eat eggs I get from someone who let's their chickens roam free in the pasture, and supplements with soy-free non-GMO feed, and I can eat eggs every day.
That's a very good loss Will give a good few moths trial and see how I do0 -
If it fits into your lifestyle, then go for it. Overall, total calories will determine weight loss rather than the timing of those nutrients and the number of meals; macronutrients and training will determine health and whether is is fat loss or weight loss. I tried 16:8 for awhile and it just didn't fit into my lifestyle and could never get adapted to the very long fast.0
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No reason to make yourself miserable,
plenty of reasons not to.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23244741
Double trouble: restrained eaters do not eat less and feel worse
"high levels of dietary restraint do not appear to reflect actual caloric restraint, it has been found to be a risk
factor for a wide array of maladaptive eating patterns. ... restrained eaters do not eat less than they intend to do"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18325547
"We examine the comfort food preferences and consumption patterns of women with highly versus less developed
schemas for cognitive restraint, emotional and situational eating ... complex eating schemas weaken biological
signals and produce maladaptive patterns... High schematics reported a lesser post-consumption increase in
fullness than low schematics. Low schematics favoured low and high calorie foods equally, their choice motivated
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Funny, I did it the other way around,geoblewis wrote:I did it for over a year. Lost 30 lbs. Fasted 16 hours, ate 8 hours. It's called intermittent fasting
fasting the 8 or so hours I slept,
and eating whenever I felt hungry in the other 16 hours.
Worked fine for me, because I was eating fewer calories than I needed.
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If it's a style you can adhere to for a long time then good. If you're just doing it for weight loss, then really it's just about CICO.
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I wouldn't say IF is a "complex eating schema" or takes any higher "levels of dietary restraint" than the typical calorie counting dieter.
It's associated with health benefits, though.
http://authoritynutrition.com/10-health-benefits-of-intermittent-fasting/0 -
I pretty much eat between 11 am and 7 or 8 pm, usually. I'm a natural-born breakfast skipper. But, I do find that if I eat earlier in the morning for some reason, I'll still want to eat the same amount throughout the rest of the day. And if I eat later in the evening, I'm more likely to snack up until bedtime. So keeping to my schedule has become a dieting tool.
If you're doing well, you're doing well. Its kind of hard to argue with that. I'm assuming here that you get an adequate amount of food in those 5 hours.0 -
WalkingAlong wrote: »I wouldn't say IF is a "complex eating schema" or takes any higher "levels of dietary restraint" than the typical calorie counting dieter.
It's associated with health benefits, though.
http://authoritynutrition.com/10-health-benefits-of-intermittent-fasting/
I just want to point out that among the citations in that article, those that link to single studies all involve fasting intervals between 24 hours and 5 days. Usually when people talk about IF (I think), they speak more about eating over only a portion of a day, like the OP. So I've no idea how that kind of IF would relate to the benefits studied. Also, some of the studies are on mice, and I don't know how often mice typically eat anyway. Probably as often as possible. A couple of the links are to reviews of other collections of research, though, and I didn't go through all the individual studies.
Bottom line: it may or may not be associated with health benefits. Certainly its working for some of us.
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9 lbs in 3 weeks is not safe and not sustainable. You can lose up to 2 lbs a week safely and consistentlycathode1977 wrote: »My sister is doing it and has lost. 9ib in3weeks she said the 1st week she only lost one ib in but the second week the weight started to fall off
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You could also drink black coffee while fasting. Coffee is an appetite suppressant and gives you energy. I love intermittent fasting I do it daily.0
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If this works for you , great. As long as you realize that a calorie deficit is causing the weight loss not your meal timing.
If I ate 1500 cals all at once or if I had 3 small 500 calorie meals or five smaller 300 calorie meals, it would all equal the same weight loss. Meal timing makes no difference. It comes down to the calories for weight loss.0 -
The association is a statistical fact, in many studies beyond the scope of that link.sheermomentum wrote: »WalkingAlong wrote: »I wouldn't say IF is a "complex eating schema" or takes any higher "levels of dietary restraint" than the typical calorie counting dieter.
It's associated with health benefits, though.
http://authoritynutrition.com/10-health-benefits-of-intermittent-fasting/
Bottom line: it may or may not be associated with health benefits. Certainly its working for some of us.
It may or may not be causal. That's up to each reader decide.
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I wish I could link to studies but can't find anything with mobile phone at the moment. In the Middle East there are discussions about this kind of extended fasting in combination with Ramadan. Looks like especially women are more likely to develop diabetes* from a kind of eating where you fast for a long time each day and then eat your normal calories within a relatively short time. This seems to be related to a massive blood sugar and then insulin spike.
*there apparently was a study with people who just eat normal and don't stuff themselves with masses of sweet stuff during Ramadan.0 -
OP, you might wanna check out the IF groups here.
Eating windows between 4-8 hours are common in daily plans.
Then some people do full-day fasts once or a few times a week.
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If it fits into your lifestyle, then go for it. Overall, total calories will determine weight loss rather than the timing of those nutrients and the number of meals; macronutrients and training will determine health and whether is is fat loss or weight loss. <snip>If it's a style you can adhere to for a long time then good. If you're just doing it for weight loss, then really it's just about CICO.
That and that. ^^
I enjoy IF, as it works with my natural eating tendencies. It also gives me a time to focus on food, which is important to me actually meeting my macro goals. If I have think about food all day, I'm going to have problems meeting my goals. When I know that I can eat 12-7p and I'm going to meet my goals in that time frame, I'm a happy camper.
It's not magic and as quoted above... it's all about CICO if trying to lose.0 -
WalkingAlong wrote: »
The association is a statistical fact, in many studies beyond the scope of that link.sheermomentum wrote: »WalkingAlong wrote: »I wouldn't say IF is a "complex eating schema" or takes any higher "levels of dietary restraint" than the typical calorie counting dieter.
It's associated with health benefits, though.
http://authoritynutrition.com/10-health-benefits-of-intermittent-fasting/
Bottom line: it may or may not be associated with health benefits. Certainly its working for some of us.
It may or may not be causal. That's up to each reader decide.
I suppose I should have said more precisely: based on the studies cited, I don't think we can say that repeated intermittent fasting for periods of less than 24 hours is associated with health benefits. I say this because the cited studies don't address this behavior. You may well know that it is, if you have more familiarity with the topic. I don't. The article containing the citations isn't really precise about what it wants to claim in that regard either. One study has people alternating full fasting days and eating days and measure one prospective benefit. Another study has people fasting for 5 full days and measures another. And so on.
Not a big deal. I just don't think we can go further than to say there may be benefits, based on that particular evidence. And I suppose I do think its important to remember that PubMed is vast and its contents can support any number of contradictory findings.0 -
If it fits into your lifestyle, then go for it. Overall, total calories will determine weight loss rather than the timing of those nutrients and the number of meals; macronutrients and training will determine health and whether is is fat loss or weight loss. I tried 16:8 for awhile and it just didn't fit into my lifestyle and could never get adapted to the very long fast.
All this. I tried the 16:8 as well and it didn't fit my lifestyle either. But if my kids were grown and my job hours were always the same I would definitely give it a try.0 -
Asher_Ethan wrote: »If it fits into your lifestyle, then go for it. Overall, total calories will determine weight loss rather than the timing of those nutrients and the number of meals; macronutrients and training will determine health and whether is is fat loss or weight loss. I tried 16:8 for awhile and it just didn't fit into my lifestyle and could never get adapted to the very long fast.
All this. I tried the 16:8 as well and it didn't fit my lifestyle either. But if my kids were grown and my job hours were always the same I would definitely give it a try.
This. When you're responsible for feeding everyone else and are subject to multiple people's schedules, IF is that much more inconvenient. That's why I never really got going with it. I can easily eat a calorically responsible portion of everybody dinner, but not eating at all when I have to stand there and make breakfast in the morning isn't gonna work. Plus I could never give up my coffee in all it's sugary creamy decadence.0 -
CoffeeNCardio wrote: »Asher_Ethan wrote: »If it fits into your lifestyle, then go for it. Overall, total calories will determine weight loss rather than the timing of those nutrients and the number of meals; macronutrients and training will determine health and whether is is fat loss or weight loss. I tried 16:8 for awhile and it just didn't fit into my lifestyle and could never get adapted to the very long fast.
All this. I tried the 16:8 as well and it didn't fit my lifestyle either. But if my kids were grown and my job hours were always the same I would definitely give it a try.
This. When you're responsible for feeding everyone else and are subject to multiple people's schedules, IF is that much more inconvenient. That's why I never really got going with it. I can easily eat a calorically responsible portion of everybody dinner, but not eating at all when I have to stand there and make breakfast in the morning isn't gonna work. Plus I could never give up my coffee in all it's sugary creamy decadence.
I switched to black. The kids eat I clean up, pack lunches and out the door. I workout. Shower than eat!
If you are used to eating at a certain time your body will expect food and be hungry. Once you get on a different schedule. It's fine. You don't get hungry anymore. ... The only time I do is if I didn't eat enough the day before. I will wake up hungry and I eat. (I have 3 at two different schools)
IF isn't for everyone. I have a bodybuilder friend that would kill people if she doesn't eat first thing. Haha!
We are all genetically different. What works for one won't always work for another
even with macros calories etc. There is a lot of trial and error. But with anything you need to stick with something long enough to know if it's working or not. 0 -
llrmacdougall wrote: »CoffeeNCardio wrote: »Asher_Ethan wrote: »If it fits into your lifestyle, then go for it. Overall, total calories will determine weight loss rather than the timing of those nutrients and the number of meals; macronutrients and training will determine health and whether is is fat loss or weight loss. I tried 16:8 for awhile and it just didn't fit into my lifestyle and could never get adapted to the very long fast.
All this. I tried the 16:8 as well and it didn't fit my lifestyle either. But if my kids were grown and my job hours were always the same I would definitely give it a try.
This. When you're responsible for feeding everyone else and are subject to multiple people's schedules, IF is that much more inconvenient. That's why I never really got going with it. I can easily eat a calorically responsible portion of everybody dinner, but not eating at all when I have to stand there and make breakfast in the morning isn't gonna work. Plus I could never give up my coffee in all it's sugary creamy decadence.
I switched to black. The kids eat I clean up, pack lunches and out the door. I workout. Shower than eat!
If you are used to eating at a certain time your body will expect food and be hungry. Once you get on a different schedule. It's fine. You don't get hungry anymore. ... The only time I do is if I didn't eat enough the day before. I will wake up hungry and I eat. (I have 3 at two different schools)
IF isn't for everyone. I have a bodybuilder friend that would kill people if she doesn't eat first thing. Haha!
We are all genetically different. What works for one won't always work for another even with macros calories etc. There is a lot of trial and error. But with anything you need to stick with something long enough to know if it's working or not.
It also helps to actually want to do the thing 0 -
Thank you every one for your help and views will let you know how I do x0
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I do it on occasion, especially if I will be eating out a few days in a row like if I am travelling or such. 20hrs fasting, 4 hrs eating. It puts me in a 1400-1700cal range and works well on those days. I never use it for long enough to find out more than the fact that it helps me maintain when my food choices are less than optimal.0
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TIL: That there is a name for my life long habit of eating between 12-8pm0
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I just eat for 4 hours and fast for 20. I can easily maintain my weight or even lose on it.
Eating more calories in a condensed period of time makes me go to sleep on a happy stomach and it's pretty much impossible to overeat.
Huge meals are just so much more satisfying.
Either way, do whatever works for your appetite control. It's about calories, macros, micros and overall health at the end of the day.0
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