Trying 16/8 intermittent fasting for the first time. Who has had success with this?

I’ve tried it before with some success. Worth a shot. My body is pretty stubborn too. I may try it again. Good luck! It works spectacularly well for some.

DonnasHealthyJourney wrote: »

I am hoping to get things switched up with my metabolism and to get the scale moving again. I have 12 lbs to goal and I am stuck.. Been plateaued for a long time 🤨

I'd avoid any sites that made it sound like you'll be switching up anything with your metabolism.

It's an eating method - plain and simple.
Plenty of people have gained weight eating that method - nothing magical about it if you aren't counting calories.

It MAY make it easier to adhere to an eating goal - like if your issue has been binging frequently and way overeating your goal several times a week.

My schedule commonly causes a 20/4 or 22/2 IF schedule.
I can easily put away a sedentary day maintenance amount of calories, and even a workout day with 1000 extra calorie burn added to it.

https://youtu.be/7o_Qd7tcB3E

I found strict 16/8 just plain annoying and felt restrictive even though I was eating at maintenance.
Far prefer simply making breakfast an optional meal, mostly I skip it, sometimes I don't.

What does "get things switched up with my metabolism" mean to you?

Do be careful the sources you use for IF information. As it became more fashionable it's also become monetised and popularised by charlatans and fools.

Im starting intermittent fasting, today is day 2. I'm doing 14 hrs. fasting and 10 hrs. to eat. I eat my 1st meal at 11:45am and my last meal by 9:45pm. It helps me not to eat late at night, like I did in the near past. It also helps me get a chance to fill hunger. A lot of times I snack during the day, and I never actually feel hungry. So I'm really feeling the hunger now! I drink black coffee, plain tea, and water with liquid chlorophyll in it. This is my 1st time trying the Intermittent fasting for wt. loss. I like it.

If you eat less calories than you burn, you lose. If you do IF, and still eat the same amount (only in a shorter window of time), you will not see much difference.

I definitely see trends of weight loss when I do IF, but realistically it is because my calories are always lower for those days.

Ketosis (the science behind the certain amount of time to achieve the actual state) is harder to put your body into, unless you are completely strict with nothing but water…or, I would drink black coffee for my morning workouts.

If you consume anything with calories or even zero calorie items (say, sugar free gum or zero calorie k-cup), -probably not going to achieve ketosis those days.

If skipping meals (and time blocks) will help keep you in a calorie deficit, do it…

If it’s going to make you consume more, in shorter periods… you’re better off not doing it.

Metabolism is the key to fat burning. As we age, it slows down so much that I am forced to do much more active stuff in free time (sedentary, desk job) to maintain weight; much less, lose much.

I used to train some people. Women sometimes fear weight training, thinking they will get, “bulky”… muscle tone means more lean mass…meaning, your body needs more fuel to burn, even at a resting rate.

Muscle is all our friend. There are definitely ways to utilize weight training, without getting too, “muscled up”…and, be able to eat more while still burning at a deficit.

currently doing 18/6… cut off is 8pm - refuel is 2pm. (Stay hydrated & when refueling make sure everything on that plate has a purpose for your body, if it’s counter productive why introduce it to your vessel?) & basically the results you are looking solely depends on the “user”