Intermittent fasting

I do it, just because it fits my schedule. I'm not regimented about the time. I also don't need to talk about it to people, so that eliminates the possibility of people questioning me about it..

Skipping breakfast puzzles people?

I'm curious of your reasons for the fasting. Not to judge just maybe your reasons add more value to the fast.
And define intermittent. How often do you plan to fast?
Do you make up the minimum daily calories later in the day? If you don't, you just skip the daily diary entry?
I believe in fasting just haven't tried it since I'm only a few weeks into calorie, weight tracking and increasing exercise. I'm scared to do anything different and have it throw off my good streak.
And all the please and thank you's in all the proper places.

Cmp_83 wrote: »

Personally I started (IF) because I've put on some belly fat in the past 2 years as I stopped going gym and eating healthy, I've always been slim guy prior, so the extra fat on my midrift seems alien to me, I can also feel my heaviness. I've gone back to the gym now and eating better, (IF) is meant to be a good way of burning/ loosing fat. According to random people on YouTube lol. So why not my brain said, can't do you much harm if done correctly.

All it is is a method of creating a calorie deficit. There aren't any magical properties.

I do 14:10 most days, but it's due to my work schedule.

I've been doing it since dec 2016. My trainer is strongly against it, which doesn't affect me. This is the only thing that helped with the weight/fat loss. I also do carb cycling and count macros. Basically, whatever you do, it comes down to basic calories in and calories expended. You need to be in a deficit. But I do believe that with IF, your body is going to use the stored fat rather than the muscle as energy because you have more fat than muscle to burn. As long as you're not dizzy and passing out from it, go ahead!

I've been doing 16:8 pretty consistently for over a year. It started with me being too lazy to make breakfast before work then my body adjusted to it well, and I stopped getting hungry until around 11am.

I find it waaaay easier to stick to my calorie goal when I skip breakfast. By 11am, I am the same amount of hungry whether I ate breakfast or not - so I get to save my calories for lunch and dinner and have larger meals. Works great.

I eat lunch around 1pm and dinner at 6pm.

Hi! I have been partaking of a nutritional system for two years now that includes intermittent fasting coupled with nutritional cleansing. Through it I have lost 100 pounds (and counting) and shed toxins and visceral fat and actually seriously increased my lean muscle mass. Here's how it works:

From: "https://jamesclear.com/the-beginners-guide-to-intermittent-fasting" which summarizes Martin Berkhan of Leangains.com.

How Does Intermittent Fasting Work?
To understand how intermittent fasting leads to fat loss we first need to understand the difference between the fed state and the fasted state.

Your body is in the fed state when it is digesting and absorbing food. Typically, the fed state starts when you begin eating and lasts for three to five hours as your body digests and absorbs the food you just ate. When you are in the fed state, it's very hard for your body to burn fat because your insulin levels are high.

After that timespan, your body goes into what is known as the post–absorptive state, which is just a fancy way of saying that your body isn’t processing a meal. The post–absorptive state lasts until 8 to 12 hours after your last meal, which is when you enter the fasted state. It is much easier for you body to burn fat in the fasted state because your insulin levels are low.

When you're in the fasted state your body can burn fat that has been inaccessible during the fed state.

Because we don't enter the fasted state until 12 hours after our last meal, it's rare that our bodies are in this fat burning state. This is one of the reasons why many people who start intermittent fasting will lose fat without changing what they eat, how much they eat, or how often they exercise. Fasting puts your body in a fat burning state that you rarely make it to during a normal eating schedule.