Intermittent fasting

I was doing the 16:8 and was loosing well. I fell off the wagon though because although I dont eat before 10am anyway I do have my morning coffee. So doing it properly, without any cals for the full 16 hours was tough! I would love to get back into it but I need to find the discipline. It was also difficult to time dinner with my family as they would want to eat after I was already supposed to have stopped eating. I am a teacher so my meal times arent as easy to adjust as some other professions, So if I didnt start eating at 10 the next time I could would be after 12 which is just too long for me. BUT when I could do it I definitely saw a change!! Its not just because you are in a deficient as some people will tell you it has an impact retaining muscle mass too. Read up about it and give it a try thats the only way you can decide for yourself. I also had an app on my phone which would monitor fasting and feeding hours and would give you a cool bit of info when you body entered each different stage.

amynen1 wrote: »

Anyone doing intermittent fasting?

Yes and it has not been going well. I started with the "start hard finish easy" method and barely made it through the week. Now I'm doing a consistent 14/10. Which is pretty easy.

But I hate doing more than that because the hunger pangs get really bad where I actually start to feel nauseous. I admit I really dont know what I'm doing. I'm using an intermittent fasting app to keep track 🤷‍♀️

NovusDies wrote: »

Sableprncs wrote: »

amynen1 wrote: »

Anyone doing intermittent fasting?

Yes and it has not been going well. I started with the "start hard finish easy" method and barely made it through the week. Now I'm doing a consistent 14/10. Which is pretty easy.

But I hate doing more than that because the hunger pangs get really bad where I actually start to feel nauseous. I admit I really dont know what I'm doing. I'm using an intermittent fasting app to keep track 🤷‍♀️

@Sableprncs

I used the start easy and make small changes over time method.

I am not liking that you are nauseous. Are you eating enough total calories?

Sometimes, but I mostly only eat once a day (late lunch usually around 130 or 2pm) because of my weird schedule. That one meal is usually big though, big enough so I wont need to eat dinner. I still feel full. My fasting window is over by 730 and I'm heading to bed around 830-9

Sableprncs wrote: »

NovusDies wrote: »

Sableprncs wrote: »

amynen1 wrote: »

Anyone doing intermittent fasting?

Yes and it has not been going well. I started with the "start hard finish easy" method and barely made it through the week. Now I'm doing a consistent 14/10. Which is pretty easy.

But I hate doing more than that because the hunger pangs get really bad where I actually start to feel nauseous. I admit I really dont know what I'm doing. I'm using an intermittent fasting app to keep track 🤷‍♀️

@Sableprncs

I used the start easy and make small changes over time method.

I am not liking that you are nauseous. Are you eating enough total calories?

Sometimes, but I mostly only eat once a day (late lunch usually around 130 or 2pm) because of my weird schedule. That one meal is usually big though, big enough so I wont need to eat dinner. I still feel full. My fasting window is over by 730 and I'm heading to bed around 830-9

After you eat lunch you are not eating anything else? That would suggest you are going 22ish hours between eating. Are you exercising or moving around a lot at home or work? Are you also trying to do a low carb plan? Do you remember to hydrate occasionally even when you are not eating?

NovusDies wrote: »

Sableprncs wrote: »

NovusDies wrote: »

Sableprncs wrote: »

amynen1 wrote: »

Anyone doing intermittent fasting?

Yes and it has not been going well. I started with the "start hard finish easy" method and barely made it through the week. Now I'm doing a consistent 14/10. Which is pretty easy.

But I hate doing more than that because the hunger pangs get really bad where I actually start to feel nauseous. I admit I really dont know what I'm doing. I'm using an intermittent fasting app to keep track 🤷‍♀️

@Sableprncs

I used the start easy and make small changes over time method.

I am not liking that you are nauseous. Are you eating enough total calories?

Sometimes, but I mostly only eat once a day (late lunch usually around 130 or 2pm) because of my weird schedule. That one meal is usually big though, big enough so I wont need to eat dinner. I still feel full. My fasting window is over by 730 and I'm heading to bed around 830-9

After you eat lunch you are not eating anything else? That would suggest you are going 22ish hours between eating. Are you exercising or moving around a lot at home or work? Are you also trying to do a low carb plan? Do you remember to hydrate occasionally even when you are not eating?

As long as I eat lunch I can skip dinner but when I wake up I'm so hungry ill eat almost anything. I drink water but I know I'm not drinking enough. I gave up sweet drinks for lent so water is pretty much it.

I try to do low carb as much as possible and no I'm not very active at all. I've been trying to focus on weight loss without working out too much.

I started slow with a few days of 16:8. Friday I started OMAD one meal a day. Experimented with a eating window from five to seven Friday-Saturday. Today I shifted the eating window to 12-4 pm so I can still have coffee with creamer and not be wired all night!
I break the fast with a good bunch of veggies followed by protein and a little fat and then whole fruit. I have found these foods almost too filling for a two hour window, so I increased it to 4. The foods I eat are very satisfying!
I like the feeling so far. I am open to tweaking it to be sustainable.
The calories deficit comes from not being physically able to ingest too many calories in the window. I'm not even very hungry between; I've got energy stores for a loooong time

I wouldn't be inclined to use a more extreme eating window if it was that hard for me. The only reason I intermittent fast is because during my days of trying other weight loss plans the 3-5 small meals tended to make me overeat, contrary to the advice I had been hearing. Later in college I had a schedule that made it so I basically had no time to eat until 6pm. On the days I ate breakfast, I noticed I was super hungry by noon. On the days I didn't eat breakfast, I could easily make it to 6pm and not binge at dinner. Later I learned this eating pattern was called IF and many people used it to limit intake. Even when I'm not trying to lose weight, it's how I prefer to eat. I've been doing it for about 4 years now but I don't pay attention to the details. I try for 16:8 to 20:4 and 1-2 meals. I lost 90lbs using IF and it's helped me maintain half of that weight loss (sigh) for 2 years. It also just helps me feel satisfied. A big trigger of my overeating is not feeling full enough, so being able to eat a larger meal or meals in the evening without exceeding my calorie goals is super helpful.

My experience is that i gave up sugar for 3 months but after the first month i stopped losing weight so i tried Intermittant fasting 16:8 and started losing again but what i find works best is 18:6 with eating window from 12pm-6pm. (No sugar obv or it doesnt work).

riffraff2112 wrote: »

yup. Pretty much limit my calories to two meals a day, fast from 10pm until noon. Works well for me, but I'm under no delusion that its magic, and that it is just a way for me to limit my intake. I always struggled with over-eating at night, so I basically just save up my calories for the evening and I can indulge without going over my 2000 cal limit.

pretty much the same for me