Intermittent Fasting Support
Ingekp1
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Who wants to support each other with Intermittent fasting! It should be fun. 🤗
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What type of support? I always skip the first meal of the day and sometimes the second meal but it will always depends on how I feel. If I have a big exercise day, I gotta have lunch or I will eat my arm by dinner.7
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I’ve been intermittent fasting since the beginning of the year. I’ve lost about 4 pounds so far. I eat between noon and 7pm. I’ve also restricted my sugar intake.5
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Yes, I would like to by your IF buddy! 🤗0
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I'd suggest that if you need support to stick to an IF way of eating then IF might not be the right approach for you.
Some people (myself included) find that some kind of restricted eating pattern makes it *easier* to meet our calorie targets. There's nothing special or magical about IF and if it doesn't make things easier for you then it makes little sense torturing yourself for no reason. Just something to think about.13 -
Gotta agree with Danp. I do IF because I find it the easiest way to diet. If I found it hard, I wouldn't do it.
I'm a big fan of noon to 7 pm for the window.6 -
Hey! I started IF about 2 ish weeks ago, going great so far. I dont see many people on mfp doing IF. I try to stick to 16:8 but most of the days i manage more than 16h. Dont really feel much hunger anymore
Feel free to add me! 1 -
I was about to send a friend request but your profile photo is you in string underwear?2
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Do you want me to change it?0
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Hi. I have started intermittent fasting from January 12th. At first I was doing 16/8 but in the last week I managed to do 18/6. I like this way of eating. My body adjust and fasting is not too difficult anymore (even though I do have easier and harder days).
My main issue is that I'm not losing any weight. In my eating window I am eating clean and healthy. I'm doing the clean fast. I'm eating healthy and not too much nor too little.
First week i lost a couple of pounds but the week after I gained them back and this is usually the pattern I follow. Maybe my problem is that I ate healthy before so it's not a big change or I don't have a lot of pounds to lose so it is harder? ( I would like to lose about 8-10 pounds).
I work out 2 times per week and walk a lot.
I don't mind keeping this way of lifestyle because I do feel good when fasting but I just wanted to see if anybody had the similar problem so I know if the weight will go down eventually.
thank you.1 -
Thanks for sharing ReaGaladriel. I’ve been intermittent fasting for about 1 month now. I’ve lost about 6 pounds during this time. At some point I’m going to level off and have to maintain. It seems like you level off for the most part. Looking at your profile picture you look very nice.0
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It is not my picture it is my goal 2
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Where is your picture?0
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What’s your goal weight?0
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ReaGaladriel wrote: »Hi. I have started intermittent fasting from January 12th. At first I was doing 16/8 but in the last week I managed to do 18/6. I like this way of eating. My body adjust and fasting is not too difficult anymore (even though I do have easier and harder days).
My main issue is that I'm not losing any weight. In my eating window I am eating clean and healthy. I'm doing the clean fast. I'm eating healthy and not too much nor too little.
First week i lost a couple of pounds but the week after I gained them back and this is usually the pattern I follow. Maybe my problem is that I ate healthy before so it's not a big change or I don't have a lot of pounds to lose so it is harder? ( I would like to lose about 8-10 pounds).
I work out 2 times per week and walk a lot.
I don't mind keeping this way of lifestyle because I do feel good when fasting but I just wanted to see if anybody had the similar problem so I know if the weight will go down eventually.
thank you.
Neither time restricted eating nor eating 'clean' are a guarantee of weight loss, you still need to be in a calorie deficit. Are you tracking your calories? Using a digital kitchen scale to weigh all of your food and checking database entries for accuracy?
With only a small amount of weight to lose, it's going to be slow (you should be aiming for 0.5lb per week), and very easily masked by water weight fluctuations. Using a weight trending app can help smooth out fluctuations so that you can see if you are losing. For a pre-menopausal woman, you really need 4-6 weeks of weight loss data to gauge. I've been bouncing around much the same weight for seven days now (down a little overall on scale weight), but my weight loss trend is still heading down nicely.7 -
YES!0
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I like to wait til about noon for first real meal. I drink I a keto coffee to get me through til then0
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angelexperiment wrote: »I like to wait til about noon for first real meal. I drink I a keto coffee to get me through til then
What is a keto coffee?0 -
angelexperiment wrote: »I like to wait til about noon for first real meal. I drink I a keto coffee to get me through til then
What is a keto coffee?
I’m guessing it’s the current iteration of Bulletproof coffee—coffee with butter or oil added.0 -
I started the 16:8 IF yesterday while sticking to 1,200 calories. I'm finding that it's not hard to fast from 7pm-11am, but I am hungry throughout the afternoon once I break the fast. Anyone else feel that way?1
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laurenb113 wrote: »I started the 16:8 IF yesterday while sticking to 1,200 calories. I'm finding that it's not hard to fast from 7pm-11am, but I am hungry throughout the afternoon once I break the fast. Anyone else feel that way?
Is 1,200 an appropriate calorie goal for you? Generally, that's the very lowest a woman should go and it's way too low for many women.3 -
angelexperiment wrote: »I like to wait til about noon for first real meal. I drink I a keto coffee to get me through til then
What is a keto coffee?
I’m guessing it’s the current iteration of Bulletproof coffee—coffee with butter or oil added.
Well that wouldn't really be fasting, would it? If the purpose of IF is as a tool to control calories, a fat bomb to tide you over is kind of defeating the purpose. No?7 -
angelexperiment wrote: »I like to wait til about noon for first real meal. I drink I a keto coffee to get me through til then
What is a keto coffee?
I’m guessing it’s the current iteration of Bulletproof coffee—coffee with butter or oil added.
Well that wouldn't really be fasting, would it? If the purpose of IF is as a tool to control calories, a fat bomb to tide you over is kind of defeating the purpose. No?
That would be my thought. I’d say a tablespoon or two of pure fat is anything but fasting, but who knows?3 -
I’ve been intermittent fasting for almost 4 years, mostly 16:8, sometimes I stretch it to 18 hours, and sometimes after extra heavy morning workout, it’ll only be 14 hours. I haven’t lost a significant amount of weight directly from IF, but it has kept me from gaining weight.
IF is a tool to help you stick with your calorie goal, but definitely not a magic bullet. When I stay under my calorie goal (mostly) for the week, I will lose a few pounds and when I go over my calorie goal I will gain a few pounds. Intermittent fasting allows me to take the 400+ calories I’d use up by eating breakfast and instead use those toward a larger lunch or dinner without going over calorie goal. Intermittent fasting itself will not magically melt fat, but using it to help control calorie intake will.
All that delay don’t deny crap that insists to everyone that you can eat whatever you want and however much you want as long as it’s in your eating window is the biggest load of 💩💩 I’ve ever heard. My posts get deleted and I get a firm warning anytime I suggest to anyone in the group that calories still matter and IF is only a tool. It’s very easy to undo all the progress you’ve made by eating thousands of calories extra calories in 4-8 hour eating window and anyone who logs calories in MFP knows how easy it is to go over calorie goal in one meal/short period of time.
Not only do I get to enjoy larger dinners with the family but I also save tons of time, and even money, not eating breakfast every day. It’s so nice just getting dressed in the morning and being ready to sieze the day without being hungry and spending time preparing and cooking breakfast or money running through a drive through. I get more out of my morning workouts by not being weighed down with food beforehand and have tons of more energy to get through workouts.
IF has also completely changed my entire relationship with food. My appetite is different, I no longer get hungry during fasting window (only took a couple weeks to reach that point) I no longer mindlessly graze on food throughout the day and reach for food out if boredom or habit. I understand what true hunger is, better able to feel my hunger cues and on rare occasion I am hungry during my fasting window I know that’s its my body needing extra post-workout nutrition instead of just wanting food just to want.
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I just read that a cup of keto coffee has 450 calories. It's basically a cup of coffee with butter in it.1
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Not at all! Not magic, and can have as many or as few calories as desired. Just like any coffee/beverage. But I will never understand the strong opposition. Most pkged creamers are just “edible oil products”, shake up some cream in a jar and you get butter, etc. If I have no cream in the house I blend up my coffee with some butter and get the texture of coffee I was craving.1 -
angelexperiment wrote: »I like to wait til about noon for first real meal. I drink I a keto coffee to get me through til then
Then you're not fasting. BUT it also illustrates that the fasting itself doesn't matter. The fact that you have the coffee outside of your "fasting window" is utterly irrelevant to weight loss.
Even if you did hold out and wait until your fasting period was over to have that coffee it would make absolutely no difference at all to your progress so if moving a few calories outs of the arbitrary feed period helps you and makes things easier than go for it.8 -
angelexperiment wrote: »I like to wait til about noon for first real meal. I drink I a keto coffee to get me through til then
Then you're not fasting. BUT it also illustrates that the fasting itself doesn't matter. The fact that you have the coffee outside of your "fasting window" is utterly irrelevant to weight loss.
Even if you did hold out and wait until your fasting period was over to have that coffee it would make absolutely no difference at all to your progress so if moving a few calories outs of the arbitrary feed period helps you and makes things easier than go for it.
Lol at the disagrees to this factual and accurate post.
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