We are pleased to announce that as of March 4, 2025, an updated Rich Text Editor has been introduced in the MyFitnessPal Community. To learn more about the changes, please click here. We look forward to sharing this new feature with you!
Morning fasting
dlharris1
Posts: 34 Member
Has anyone done this and seen results?
0
Replies
-
You mean, skipped breakfast? You don't have to eat breakfast if you don't want to.14
-
How would you expect to see results?
Meal timing is irrelevant - spreading your calories over the whole day vs a small eating window makes no difference to weight loss. It may make it easier for you to stick to your calorie goal though.9 -
What results would come from "skipping breakfast"?5
-
One less meal a day helps some people keep their calories down.4
-
I've been doing the intermittent fasting. For breakfast I drink a cup of coffee and that helps until I eat at 11:30 am (brunch) then I workout around 2:00 (working out and drinking water helps feel full) I eat a snack after my workout and then I eat dinner around 7:00 and then I fast for the next 16 hours. If I get hungry after 7:00 I just drink water. I've been doing this for the past 2 weeks and I've lost about 10lbs so far. It works for me and my daily schedule and after 3 days, it got easier. I don't really get hungry anymore.7
-
I've been doing the intermittent fasting. For breakfast I drink a cup of coffee and that helps until I eat at 11:30 am (brunch) then I workout around 2:00 (working out and drinking water helps feel full) I eat a snack after my workout and then I eat dinner around 7:00 and then I fast for the next 16 hours. If I get hungry after 7:00 I just drink water. I've been doing this for the past 2 weeks and I've lost about 10lbs so far. It works for me and my daily schedule and after 3 days, it got easier. I don't really get hungry anymore.
Fantastic results well done!
Your routine looks similar to what mine could be, but I do classes at gym either 12 or 1pm so probably looking to have breakfast 10-11am, I'm up early though like 5/6am. I'm on day three of just morning fast not really limiting too much rest of day and scales already 3lbs down I'm really excited to see the results I can get
3 -
Absolutely, I'm just trailing it to see how I get on, so far so good being really careful not to binge.
4 -
Srsly. Just eat when u feel hungry and don't when you're not.7
-
-
I've been doing the intermittent fasting. For breakfast I drink a cup of coffee and that helps until I eat at 11:30 am (brunch) then I workout around 2:00 (working out and drinking water helps feel full) I eat a snack after my workout and then I eat dinner around 7:00 and then I fast for the next 16 hours. If I get hungry after 7:00 I just drink water. I've been doing this for the past 2 weeks and I've lost about 10lbs so far. It works for me and my daily schedule and after 3 days, it got easier. I don't really get hungry anymore.
Fantastic results well done!
Your routine looks similar to what mine could be, but I do classes at gym either 12 or 1pm so probably looking to have breakfast 10-11am, I'm up early though like 5/6am. I'm on day three of just morning fast not really limiting too much rest of day and scales already 3lbs down I'm really excited to see the results I can get
@dlharris1 @igarcia13
There are many people on here who will not understand fasting as they believe dieting is only about calories and that you should eat regularly. However it is possible to skip breakfast and not binge later. For anyone who is Type 2 Diabetic or Pre-Diabetic, or simply wants to burn more fat than is stored, the key to weightloss is hormone control. There is plenty of information on YouTube from leading professors around the world who disagree with the current standard american diet (and european government diets too)
Doing a breakfast fast is the best time of day for it. And yes you should see results. As your body adapts to burning fat you won't feel hungry either. Personally I prefer only eating once per day, so when doing that my fasting lasts for 23 hours.
Good luck!21 -
-
Alatariel75 wrote: »
Samesies.4 -
When I work I often fast breakfast and lunch surviving on coffee until about 5pm. Unofrtunately what happened between 5-10 caused me to be 21 stone. We are all different just keep the calories down and you will lose weight (so I'm told never quite managed to test it myself).1
-
I've been doing the intermittent fasting. For breakfast I drink a cup of coffee and that helps until I eat at 11:30 am (brunch) then I workout around 2:00 (working out and drinking water helps feel full) I eat a snack after my workout and then I eat dinner around 7:00 and then I fast for the next 16 hours. If I get hungry after 7:00 I just drink water. I've been doing this for the past 2 weeks and I've lost about 10lbs so far. It works for me and my daily schedule and after 3 days, it got easier. I don't really get hungry anymore.
Fantastic results well done!
Your routine looks similar to what mine could be, but I do classes at gym either 12 or 1pm so probably looking to have breakfast 10-11am, I'm up early though like 5/6am. I'm on day three of just morning fast not really limiting too much rest of day and scales already 3lbs down I'm really excited to see the results I can get
@dlharris1 @igarcia13
There are many people on here who will not understand fasting as they believe dieting is only about calories and that you should eat regularly. However it is possible to skip breakfast and not binge later. For anyone who is Type 2 Diabetic or Pre-Diabetic, or simply wants to burn more fat than is stored, the key to weightloss is hormone control. There is plenty of information on YouTube from leading professors around the world who disagree with the current standard american diet (and european government diets too)
Doing a breakfast fast is the best time of day for it. And yes you should see results. As your body adapts to burning fat you won't feel hungry either. Personally I prefer only eating once per day, so when doing that my fasting lasts for 23 hours.
Good luck!
I did the "One-Meal-A-Day" thing back in 1994, eating my one BIG meal at 2pm each day and lost 94 lbs in just over 1 year but it turned me into a Type-2 diabetic by 1997 (at the age of 37--diabetes runs in the family but typically hits at a later age, so this was unexpected). My body, eventually, just could not handle all the high carbs I was eating at that one meal, day after day, year after year. I probably would have been OK had I kept my carbs at that meal to 100 grams (maybe even 150 grams) but I liked my carbs (a lot) and would easily end up at with around 300-400 grams of them (at a minimum) in my one-meal-a-day meals.
10 -
deleted post0
-
This content has been removed.
-
Yes, I just started intermittent fasting (16:8). I pretty much have black coffee for breakfast (with a tablespoon of coconut oil in it), then eat breakfast around 10:30-11am and I stop eating at 6:30-7pm. If I get hungry after that time, then I drink water or green tea. I am also Pre-Diabetic, so I try to eat clean...lots of veggies, lean protein and good fat like avocado.7
-
DebLaBounty wrote: »You mean, skipped breakfast? You don't have to eat breakfast if you don't want to.
This.5 -
I consider it normal (for me) to have a very late or no breakfast. I find it easier to keep within my daily calories that way, and I can have a nice big main meal.3
-
I've started doing the same, skipping breakfast and surviving on tea and water until about 1pm.
Also gone with a Keto/HFLC diet, with a calorie deficit.
It's working - but I couldn't say how much can be attributed to the intermittent fasting.0 -
It's not anything that gets "results" in and of itself.
Some people find that eating an early breakfast turns on their appetite switch and makes them hungrier throughout the day. I'm one of those people. I find it easier to control my overall daily food intake if I just drink tea in the morning and eat my first meal around 2:00 in the afternoon (when I first get actually hungry). I get up quite early and exercise every day before this point.
There's nothing magical about doing this. When I eat that first meal, it's got a decent amount of calories in it (around 600). I eat dinner around 6:30 or 7:00 and follow with a large "dessert" that usually protein-based.
This is just a pattern of eating that allows me to control my caloric intake without feeling like I have the munchies all day.
Other people do better eating an early breakfast and spreading their meals throughout the day.
Meal timing is irrelevant. Overall calorie intake is what matters.8 -
There are many people on here who will not understand fasting as they believe dieting is only about calories and that you should eat regularly. However it is possible to skip breakfast and not binge later.
Actually, it's extremely rare to run into anyone here who thinks skipping breakfast is bad or that doing meal timing (16:8, 18:6, OMAD) is bad, if someone finds it helps them control calories. I think IF is a great idea, and not all that different from what I do most of the time (not eating between meals).
As someone who occasionally skips breakfast and spent years (both overweight and a healthy weight) skipping breakfast and even not eating til late afternoon, without calling it anything, I see nothing wrong with it at all. I just find it a little odd that people call it fasting (vs. IF, which is a thing and people know what is meant).
I also think sometimes you get posts on MFP that suggest the people starting IF think it's some kind of huge dramatic thing to not eat for a few hours while awake which makes me think people have gotten to have very weird ideas about how often they need to eat or weird customs where they eat all the time and think of even not eating for 8-10 hours while sleeping during most of that as fasting (which I have seriously seen on MFP more and more often lately).
Not their fault, just suggesting that there's something weird about the expectations they are coming from or things that they have been told.
IF, great. Not eating breakfast if that's what works for you, great.
Does it do anything magic beyond helping many people stick to a calorie goal? That I don't believe.12 -
-
This content has been removed.
-
This content has been removed.
-
lemurcat12 wrote: »There are many people on here who will not understand fasting as they believe dieting is only about calories and that you should eat regularly. However it is possible to skip breakfast and not binge later.
Actually, it's extremely rare to run into anyone here who thinks skipping breakfast is bad or that doing meal timing (16:8, 18:6, OMAD) is bad, if someone finds it helps them control calories. I think IF is a great idea, and not all that different from what I do most of the time (not eating between meals).
As someone who occasionally skips breakfast and spent years (both overweight and a healthy weight) skipping breakfast and even not eating til late afternoon, without calling it anything, I see nothing wrong with it at all. I just find it a little odd that people call it fasting (vs. IF, which is a thing and people know what is meant).
I also think sometimes you get posts on MFP that suggest the people starting IF think it's some kind of huge dramatic thing to not eat for a few hours while awake which makes me think people have gotten to have very weird ideas about how often they need to eat or weird customs where they eat all the time and think of even not eating for 8-10 hours while sleeping during most of that as fasting (which I have seriously seen on MFP more and more often lately).
Not their fault, just suggesting that there's something weird about the expectations they are coming from or things that they have been told.
IF, great. Not eating breakfast if that's what works for you, great.
Does it do anything magic beyond helping many people stick to a calorie goal? That I don't believe.
Yeah, I have an eating pattern that lines up with IF, so I just do it but I feel like IF threads have been popping up left and right lately. It's like IF is the new ACV. I feel like the majority of new people doing it aren't doing it to allocate their calories differently; they're doing it because they think IF will give them fat-burning results beyond a normal calorie deficit.10
This discussion has been closed.
Categories
- All Categories
- 1.4M Health, Wellness and Goals
- 394.4K Introduce Yourself
- 44K Getting Started
- 259.7K Health and Weight Loss
- 175.6K Food and Nutrition
- 47.3K Recipes
- 232.7K Fitness and Exercise
- 393 Sleep, Mindfulness and Overall Wellness
- 6.4K Goal: Maintaining Weight
- 8.5K Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
- 153.1K Motivation and Support
- 8.1K Challenges
- 1.3K Debate Club
- 96.3K Chit-Chat
- 2.5K Fun and Games
- 4K MyFitnessPal Information
- 23 News and Announcements
- 930 Feature Suggestions and Ideas
- 2.3K MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions