Intermittent Fasting Friends

smsal890 wrote: »

I've been intermittent fasting for almost a month and I am loving it! I have never had a better relationship with food before now. I would really love some friends that are also doing it, it can be really difficult to fast on the weekend sometimes.
Also anyone who would love to start or is curious about it!

I IF most days.... Have been for years. Feel free to add me

smsal890 wrote: »

I've been intermittent fasting for almost a month and I am loving it! I have never had a better relationship with food before now. I would really love some friends that are also doing it, it can be really difficult to fast on the weekend sometimes.
Also anyone who would love to start or is curious about it!

I do as well! This is perfect!

kommodevaran wrote: »

Intermittent fasting doesn't really mean fasting (hence "intermittent"), it just means eating within one of several arbitrarily set "feeding windows", that you not only can decide for yourself, but also is just supposed to stop you from eating all the time, which is not a problem is itself, but often associated with eating too much, and it's eating too much that is the real problem for most people. Hard to grasp, I know; I expect some woo's!

WOOOOO!!

I do IF but I also restrict to 2000 cal a day and do some exercise

kommodevaran wrote: »

Intermittent fasting doesn't really mean fasting (hence "intermittent"), it just means eating within one of several arbitrarily set "feeding windows", that you not only can decide for yourself, but also is just supposed to stop you from eating all the time, which is not a problem is itself, but often associated with eating too much, and it's eating too much that is the real problem for most people. Hard to grasp, I know; I expect some woo's!

I gave you the obligatory woo reaction for saying "woo' in your post

QFT - many people find IF useful for managing calories and satiety, but you still have to do the work.

Question: if I were to IF, with my eating window being 12-8, am I allowed coffee (black) in the morning?

kommodevaran wrote: »

azkunk wrote: »

I getting started with IF and trying to do 16:8. I am also restricting calories so I’m not sure if it’s CICO, IF or both.

CICO is just calories in-calories out, the process by which a person (or any animal) loses, gains or maintains weight. If you're restricting calories so much that your calories in becomes fewer than your calories out, and do it for some time, you'll lose weight. Reducing number of meals, or meal sizes, or meal composition, or counting calories, or eating low carb or low fat, or exercising a lot, are all strategies to eat less than you burn. But if you don't accept that you have to eat less, you can easily eat fewer but larger meals, or smaller but more calorie dense meals, or smaller meals but eat more often, or reward yourself with food for exercising, or any other combination often referred to as "self sabotage", and not lose weight.

I'm wondering about trying to do 16:8. It's not a particularly difficult thing to do, but it's also not a particularly necessary thing to do.

I started reading the Obesity Code and the author does not subscribe to the CICO theory and touts that IF without calorie restriction will lead to various health improvements and weight loss. I am not finished the book and I do believe that calories need to be restricted but I wonder if fasting is synergistic or if it really just my calories.

Fasting 16 hours may not be particularly difficult for some. But for others it can be a challenge. My last meal was at 6:15 last night. Today, I had a meetings from 9:00 to 12:30. My choice was to eat at 8:45 or wait until I got back in the office at 12:15. So, I ate at 8:45 because I would be overly hungry if I waited which could have led to poor choices. I do not always have the ability or opportunity to snack at or between meetings which does make the 16 hours more difficult. I also cannot realistically stop eating any later than 6:00. So, I try to fast for 16 hours.

I just started it kinda by accident. But I think it’s helpful so far. I am eating 1400 per day (or trying...). I’m in

You made a great choice with intermittent fasting! I'm down 26 pounds in 2 months with intermittent fasting. It is the real deal! Cheers to a healthier future!

new to IF it's been nearly 1 month I'm doing 16:8 so far not totally difficult til it nears my eat window. need IF friends add me

Holly23bgs wrote: »

I've been doing it for about a month, consistently really only for a week now, and have decided that one meal a day (OMAD) works best for me. I don't have to worry about calorie counting that way and I get a nice satisfying meal. I just try to stick to whole, homemade foods and have lost 7 pounds this week alone.
Anyone feel free to add me! Hoping for new friends for IF motivation

This is what I’ve been doing too (accidentally kind of just happened) but I’ve too lost 7lbs this week I don’t really know anything about fasting but I my seems to be working!

Thank you for your comments and sharing. I am doing it haphazardly. Nonetheless it causes me to feel better. There is Something about giving the stomach a rest, I think, that makes you feel better.

I do IF keto anyone can add. Open diary.