Intermittent fasting!

I feel like you might want to take a step back, a deep breath, and look at the bigger picture. But maybe I'm reading too much into your posts...


But to your question - your body doesn't really adjust to IF. It may need to adjust if there was a change in calories or to the types of food you are eat... but probably not to a simple change in eating schedule. I guess maybe a small adjustment would come if you had been eating all your cals by 2pm and are now eating all your cals after 4pm and weighing in first thing in the morning, but even that seems like a stretch to me.

Slow down. Be patient. Relax.

LauraSrock18 wrote: »

I’ve been doing intermittent fasting since Sunday while remaining in a caloric deficit! So far I’m really enjoying it! It works great for my lifestyle & makes my relationship with food SO MUCH BETTER.

I feel like I’m leaning out but the scale isn’t moving much which is to be expected but I’m wondering how long it takes for your body to adjust to IF?!

You think that you're magically leaning out in five days?

I say this with all kindness,

I think you really, really need to reflect upon how you approach weightloss. You have posted around ten threads over the past two months. Ever since you posted about deciding to let go of your trainer and their calorie or meal guidance or whatever it was, you really seem to be bouncing around. I'm wondering if you have really read and considered the responses you've received in your other threads because it seems like if you had, you wouldn't still be posting the things you have as frequently as you have.

Looking through your diary, I think if you simply focused on logging better and eating a more varied diet, you would make progress. It seems like a lot of days you eat close to goal. However, it doesn't seem that you weigh your food. Weighing your food is not a necessity, but if you're not losing weight, you should tighten up your logging. In your case, weighing your food would probably be a good starting point.

I only mention varying your diet because I recall you posting about hunger. It seems you eat very few vegetables. Or if you do, you're not logging them and you should probably start doing so. Adding vegetables might help with hunger, due to volume and fiber. You also seem to eat a lot of snack-type foods, like chips and crackers. There's nothing wrong with that, but if you're struggling with hunger, those calories might be better spent on more nutrient dense foods.

Think about how far you could have come over the past two months if you had focused more on the basics instead of bouncing around being worried about carbs and IF'ing and keto (I think you had a post about that, if not, I apologize). Developing good habits now is more likely to lead to weight maintenance after the loss.

Also, I know you're getting married soon - two weeks or something? Maybe/it's likely that's been contributing to the stress you've been expressing about this whole process. At the end of the day, a marriage is about the two people who make a commitment to each other. I hope you're focusing on that rather than all the stuff that at the end of the day, is just one day.