IF: How do YOU break your fast?

iLainey
iLainey Posts: 10 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Hello everyone! Just wondering what other people do to break their fast :) I fast between 14-16 hrs.

I've been doing bone broth and mct oil (add a rice cake on lifting days) then wait 30 mins before grabbing my meals. I also drink kombucha twice a week before I get anything in my stomach to keep my microbiome in check.

Just curious how others break their fast and what your reason is behind it :)

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    When I did it, I just ate lunch.
  • NovusDies
    NovusDies Posts: 8,940 Member
    iLainey wrote: »
    NovusDies wrote: »
    Most people break their fast with breakfast... hence the name.

    Haha I'm aware but those who practice fasting longer than just going to bed - wake up - eat cycle have different ways of breaking their fast since you deplete minerals etc when you do intermittent fasting and having a heavy meal right after causes some people stomach upset. Was just curious what other people who practice intermittent fasting are doing ☺

    Everyone who eats dinner and then sleeps and eats in the morning is also intermittently fasting which is my point. The only difference is you are waiting 2 to 4 hours longer than almost everyone who eats 3 meals at the usual times.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    iLainey wrote: »
    NovusDies wrote: »
    Most people break their fast with breakfast... hence the name.
    Haha I'm aware but those who practice fasting longer than just going to bed - wake up - eat cycle have different ways of breaking their fast since you deplete minerals etc when you do intermittent fasting and having a heavy meal right after causes some people stomach upset. Was just curious what other people who practice intermittent fasting are doing ☺
    Do they? I don't think I do. I don't eat for 16-18 hours between dinner and breakfast, and I can't say (or understand how) there is any depletion of minerals going on, and I eat a (I would say) normal breakfast of sandwiches and milk and fruit and veg. I think that anything that causes stomach upset, should be avoided.
  • WholeFoods4Lyfe
    WholeFoods4Lyfe Posts: 1,518 Member
    edited May 2018
    Unless I'm doing an extended fast, pretty much anything longer than 24-36 hrs, I just eat normally. For longer fasts, I tend to break them by drinking some bone broth, then a smaller meal, then return to eating as normal.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    edited May 2018
    I think you're overthinking this. A 14-16 hour fast isn't something so extreme that it requires any special way of eating.

    I 'more or less' usually do 16:8, just because it fits my eating pattern. When I break my fast, I eat a normal breakfast/lunch meal (according to whatever I feel like).

    Eat whatever you want and what works best for you.
  • Redordeadhead
    Redordeadhead Posts: 1,188 Member
    I don't say I practice intermittent fasting, but tonight I had dinner at 6:30pm and tomorrow I will eat breakfast at 9am. That's more than 14 hours between meals, but I just consider that normal eating, nothing special.
  • abbynormalartist
    abbynormalartist Posts: 318 Member
    I IF a few days of the week because it's easier for my work schedule, plus I get the benefit of a larger dinner/snacks in the evening. I usually wait to break-fast at 2pm with a light lunch.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    I eat my greek yogurt mixed with protein powder and berries.

    What the *kitten* is MCT oil?
  • YvetteK2015
    YvetteK2015 Posts: 654 Member
    I just eat whatever I feel like eating.
  • psychod787
    psychod787 Posts: 4,099 Member
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    I eat my greek yogurt mixed with protein powder and berries.

    What the *kitten* is MCT oil?

    Medium chain triglycerides I think, people use it to make bullet proof coffee. Medium chain fat created in a lab basically. me thinks?
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    AnvilHead wrote: »
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    I eat my greek yogurt mixed with protein powder and berries.

    What the *kitten* is MCT oil?
    It's the keto version of ACV. :D

    I went to examine.com after I asked. I see no appreciable benefit... Darn science.
  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    Insert food in mouth. Fast broken.
  • NovusDies
    NovusDies Posts: 8,940 Member
    bpetrosky wrote: »
    Insert food in mouth. Fast broken.

    Nuh-uh. You have to chew it and swallow it. :tongue:
  • PAFC84
    PAFC84 Posts: 1,871 Member
    I drink the blood of my foes...
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    Who knew skipping breakfast was so complicated?
    Clue - it isn't!

    When I followed the 16:8 eating pattern I just ate my lunch as my first food of the day.
    Normally at 12:00 precisely as it turned me into an obsessive clock watcher, which is why I stopped doing it and now just skip or eat breakfast depending on how I feel and if I need extra or fewer calories that day.
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    edited May 2018
    You aren't depleting much when you don't eat for an extra couple of hours after waking up.

    My normal eating (no deliberate meal skipping or meal timing) is about 12-16 hours of not eating overnight, that's when I have breakfast, the most normal breakfast of things I feel like eating.

    When I don't feel like having breakfast and decide to skip it, I just go straight to lunch, for me that's about 18-20 hours of not eating overnight. I just have lunch, the most normal lunch of things I feel like eating.

    When I have an evening out and know I will be eating a lot, sometimes I decide to skip both breakfast and lunch. That's 24-28 hours of not eating overnight. I then I just have the most normal high calorie dinner of things I feel like ordering.

    No need to overcomplicate things.

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