Intermittent fasting quick fat loss

didknot226
didknot226 Posts: 19 Member
I have tried it for almost 2 and 1/2 month and lost 27 lbs. easy to follow and healthyyy style.

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  • Azdak
    Azdak Posts: 8,281 Member
    Woo!
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,206 Member
    There are many ways to intermittently fast. What's your split?
  • elisa123gal
    elisa123gal Posts: 4,324 Member
    edited December 2016
    Yes.. I do 16:8 and it is a game changer.. i love it... i don't count calories.. it is freeing and it stops cravings and overeating. All of a sudden.. you have control over food. It has been amazing for me. All I do is skip breakfast at eat at 12:30 or 1:00.
  • didknot226
    didknot226 Posts: 19 Member
    Great to hear that! Unfortunately for me, I have to keep counting calories or else won't lose the weight. But hey, as long as it's working:)
  • didknot226
    didknot226 Posts: 19 Member
    Ok here is the thing. I do IF and I try to stay and 1200 calories. So far great results. I do 16 hours fasting and 8 hours eating window. :)
  • KANGOOJUMPS
    KANGOOJUMPS Posts: 6,474 Member
    I do it, am all for it, it works.
  • didknot226
    didknot226 Posts: 19 Member
    Time will go by quickly. Enjoy ur tea.
  • CattOfTheGarage
    CattOfTheGarage Posts: 2,745 Member
    It's very individual. Doesn't work for me (I get grumpy and melodramatic if I skip meals) but some people definitely find it easier to stick to their goals eating this way.
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    edited December 2016
    didknot226 wrote: »
    Ok here is the thing. I do IF and I try to stay and 1200 calories. So far great results. I do 16 hours fasting and 8 hours eating window. :)

    You lost weight because you ate 1200 calories a day (the default minimum for women before exercise).....meal timing had nothing to do with it.

    However, meal timing may have helped you be more consistent....consistency is good.

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/49-intermittent-fasting


    You do know it's not just fat loss right? Large(r) deficits often sacrifice a larger % of existing lean muscle mass than moderate deficits do. There's a trade-off for fast.
  • didknot226
    didknot226 Posts: 19 Member
    Yes finally something is working for my body.
  • IremiaRe
    IremiaRe Posts: 801 Member
    Love it, too... I would much rather eat two substantial meals than try to stretch my calorie budget over to breakfast, which I have never, ever liked, or wanted. I am so not a morning person... the idea of eating before noon is just icky.
  • catrina0789
    catrina0789 Posts: 10 Member
    This is something that I want more information on. If i stop eating at like 8pm and dont eat breakfast until 12pm thats is fine? what do I do the other hours? do i try and get at least 1200 cal. in that time frame?
  • I love it as well. I started with 14/10, but three months in, I settled into 16/8. I still count calories, but like IremiaRe, I enjoy not having to stretch my calories across the day. I am also a compulsive eater, so not having to think of food past 7:00 pm (for me) is liberating.
  • IremiaRe
    IremiaRe Posts: 801 Member
    The idea is that you fast for however many hours - some people fast for 16, others for 18 or 20 - but then you eat during the remaining hours.

    Yes, you can eat the whole 1200 calories during your 4, 6, or 8 hour window. When the window occurs is up to you - so if you ARE a morning person - your food window could be from 6am to 2pm... or whatever time works for you.

    the rest of the time, you drink water... lots of water... or tea, or black coffee - basically anything sugar/calorie free.
  • Danny_Boy13
    Danny_Boy13 Posts: 2,094 Member
    I have tried it but it is a love hate thing with me. Although my progress on my lifts did not suffer any but anything that demanded a lot of cardio did. I need carbs a good 8-10 hrs to process and ready to use instead of 5-6 before like I was doing. When I was logging times on my laps that is what my records were showing anyhow. Once I went back to my usual times were back down to their normal.
  • catrina0789
    catrina0789 Posts: 10 Member
    my kind of thing, Im going to try this and pray it works
  • mathlymom
    mathlymom Posts: 1 Member
    How does this work? I am not familiar with intermittent fasting. This is first of hearing this term.
  • ClosetBayesian
    ClosetBayesian Posts: 836 Member
    mathlymom wrote: »
    How does this work? I am not familiar with intermittent fasting. This is first of hearing this term.

    There are a few variants of it. It is what the name suggests - fasting intermittently. One option is to restrict the time you eat/drink calories during the day to a few hours ("eating window"); 16:8 (16 hours in which you don't consume calories, 8 during which you can) is popular; there is some evidence to suggest that a 16:8 schedule may affect hormone cycles adversely in some women, so 14:10 is another option (14 hours in which you don't consume calories, 10 in which you can). It's not a license to eat everything under the sun - you still need to maintain a calorie deficit, so if you had 1500 calories a day before IF, you still have 1400 calories; eating them in a smaller window during the day means your meals may be bigger, depending on how you choose to re-distribute those calories. Some people do 20:4 and have one hell of a meal in that four hours. It's a matter of preference. Other options include a 5:2 split, where someone eats maintenance calories for five days out of the week and 2 days at 1/4 (I think, I could be wrong) their maintenance calories, or alternate day fasting (similar principle). There's nothing extra-magical about IF, it's just a matter of how you distribute those calories during your day. I like a 14:10 split, personally; it's a fun challenge, especially on weekends when I know my husband and I will have a glass or two of wine after the kids go to bed; since wine is calories, I adjust my meal timing such that I don't have the first meal of the day until around noon, so I can have my last glass of wine around 9:30PM and still stay within a 10 hour window.
  • nerdyshashank
    nerdyshashank Posts: 2 Member
    Is IF advisable for endomorphs
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Is IF advisable for endomorphs

    Since body somatotypes aren't a thing, it's advisable if you can work with it.

    I've fallen into a 14:10 pattern for the most part and it works for me because I don't feel the need to snack midday.
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