Intermittent Fasting

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  • nyreecatrice
    nyreecatrice Posts: 4 Member
    so let me see if i got this IF straight.

    my calorie intake of

    1,200 150 40 60 2,300 45
    Calories Carbs Fat Protein Sodium Sugar

    stays the same. i just make sure i have them between 12 pm and 7pm. Rather than little meals i should focus on 2 or 3 large ones.

    i can feel satisfied with water, tea, etc until noon.

    if i exercise i can take in more calories.

    what am i missing?

    Thank you so much!!
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    fr33sia12 wrote: »
    OfficialDSXIII wrote: »
    fr33sia12 wrote: »
    Alluminati wrote: »
    fr33sia12 wrote: »
    tropicotropico wrote: »
    Hi everyone i wanted to share my experience with IF. I think IF is an amazing way to stay in deficit because in that small hour frame when you eat you can eat big meals and it feels like you are not on a diet. First week was kind of hard but after it your body will adapt and you will feel no hunger. Im using the 16/8 but most often it ends up 17/7 but its amazing.I lose 1kg every week without problem. I will recommend IF to everyone whio can do it, i didnt have any side effects and i love it. Whats your thoughts on Intermittent Fasting :)

    It would be interesting to see if you still ate exactly the same amount of food, but in a larger time window (say 10 hours) would you still have lost the same amount of weight.

    I eat in a 10 hour window and I can't imagine what difference 2 hours less would make. I would still eat the same amount of calories.

    Why wouldn't he? He's still eating the same amount of calories a day?

    That's exactly my point, so why do the fasting in the first place if you get the same results.

    Stomach filling meals that leave you feeling satisfied.

    All my meals fill me and leave me satisfied and I eat around 1200-1300 cals a day whenever I want, without having to starve myself for 16 hrs.

    I'm guessing that fasting is more a personal thing that may work for some people and not others. Though when you go back to normal eating what would happen then? Would you be so used to eating in an 8 hour window would you always eat like that? or would you overeat again when your not following that 16/8 hr window?

    I would starve on a 1200 calorie diet. I tried and it wasn't pretty. If I could be full on a 1200 calorie diet I wouldn't have gotten this big in the first place.

    As to the bolded, it really becomes so easy after a while that you don't even think about it. It feels normal to you. Now even if a person does decide to go back to eating in a way that does not follow 16/8 it's also pretty easy. Imagine this situation:

    A person whose maintenance is 2000 calories is dieting, doing 1500 calories. They eat 1500 calories within an 8 hour window. They transition to maintenance, could eat 1500 calories within the 8 hour window and 500 calories outside it. Many people do continue skipping a meal though out of habit and appreciate the large meals getting even larger.


  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    nyreecatrice wrote: »
    so let me see if i got this IF straight.

    my calorie intake of

    1,200 150 40 60 2,300 45
    Calories Carbs Fat Protein Sodium Sugar

    stays the same. i just make sure i have them between 12 pm and 7pm. Rather than little meals i should focus on 2 or 3 large ones.

    i can feel satisfied with water, tea, etc until noon.

    if i exercise i can take in more calories.

    what am i missing?

    Thank you so much!!

    This is correct, and yes you can eat back your exercise calories (be careful how many though, because many calorie calculator over-estimate exercise).

    At first there is an adjustment period where you may feel hungry in the morning but you get used to it pretty fast and after a while you rarely even notice.
  • Oncebittentwiceshy38
    Oncebittentwiceshy38 Posts: 127 Member
    I love doing IF and am starting to be successful at weight loss again for the first time in a couple of years! I feel so free from having to follow a strict eating plan, and because I know I can eat what I want (with in reason of course) I don't feel the need to over eat! I'm still keeping track of what I eat so that I can track any weight gain and go from there. I usually fast from 9 PM until noon or later the next day. I plan to stretch out some longer fasts, but not rush into it.

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