Morning fasting
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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
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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 -
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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 -
I sprinkle ACV on the bacon I eat right before I start my fast.
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I do IF....sometimes I have black coffee in the AM, and between noon and 8 I can eat, after that I just drink water/no Cal beverages0
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Thanks for all the comments, lots of different opinions! Main reason I wanted to try is to have more cals left in evenings really, as i like a bigger dinner. Plus I cycle early morning to work and I've heard various things about burning fat while exercising before eating for the day. I know delaying first meal isn't anything extreme, but for me (who eats usually within an hour of waking and also snacks a lot throughout day) it is a big change.
So I've just finished day three and believe it or not I'm 3 whole lbs down. So safe to say I'll be continuing! I'm even quite enjoying the lighter feeling mornings and not being bothered hunger!2 -
I sprinkle ACV on the bacon I eat right before I start my fast.
Well you are doing it wrong. You need to mix the ACV with a bit of bacon fat and sugar, then pour it over fresh spinach, and crumble cooked bacon on top of it.5 -
Thanks for all the comments, lots of different opinions! Main reason I wanted to try is to have more cals left in evenings really, as i like a bigger dinner. Plus I cycle early morning to work and I've heard various things about burning fat while exercising before eating for the day. I know delaying first meal isn't anything extreme, but for me (who eats usually within an hour of waking and also snacks a lot throughout day) it is a big change.
So I've just finished day three and believe it or not I'm 3 whole lbs down. So safe to say I'll be continuing! I'm even quite enjoying the lighter feeling mornings and not being bothered hunger!
i dont burn any more fat working out fasted, than I do if I work out later in the evening and fueled to work out. fasting wont cause any higher fat burns, I have done IF 16:8 for most of my life and if you overeat you will still gain weight. trust me been there done that. now I do notice if I workout fasted it kills my appetite ,but thats me and may not be the same results for others.But I dont have a lot of energy in the am so most of my workouts are done in the evening.6 -
Thanks for all the comments, lots of different opinions! Main reason I wanted to try is to have more cals left in evenings really, as i like a bigger dinner. Plus I cycle early morning to work and I've heard various things about burning fat while exercising before eating for the day. I know delaying first meal isn't anything extreme, but for me (who eats usually within an hour of waking and also snacks a lot throughout day) it is a big change.
So I've just finished day three and believe it or not I'm 3 whole lbs down. So safe to say I'll be continuing! I'm even quite enjoying the lighter feeling mornings and not being bothered hunger!
Day 3 and 3 pounds down, but that's not 3 pounds of fat. It's a water weight fluctuation. Do IF if you want to but don't expect that loss to be a continued trend. The initial water weight loss that tapers off is what makes many people give up.5 -
I skip breakfast and put off eating for as long as possible/when I'm actually truly hungry which i never am in the morning, so i have more calories for the evening.
I wouldn't call what i do fasting though, as i drink tea with milk all day before my first meal.1 -
Thanks for all the comments, lots of different opinions! Main reason I wanted to try is to have more cals left in evenings really, as i like a bigger dinner. Plus I cycle early morning to work and I've heard various things about burning fat while exercising before eating for the day. I know delaying first meal isn't anything extreme, but for me (who eats usually within an hour of waking and also snacks a lot throughout day) it is a big change.
That's perfectly reasonable. I think it's good to try things and see what works for you, and I know if you are used to eating all the time it can feel like a big change. I'm glad you are liking it so far!
(I was responding before to the person who seemed to be misunderstanding and thinking people were anti skipping breakfast or timing calories (IF). I don't think it does anything magic, but if you'd enjoy eating more in the evening and skipping breakfast, great idea. I avoiding snacking for similar reasons.)1 -
This is very good practice. I am on it for many years. Keep weight 120 lb since my high school. I am 63 y/o.
It' s helping people who have discipline, not to binge after fasting for few hrs. Just eat your normal meal like nothing happens. The best fasting are 18, 20, 22, 24 hrs. But still your next meal has to be normal3
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