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Intermittent fasting

Hi how do I schedule a date and time if I am fasting over night for 12 fast while I sleep by stopping eating after dinner at 6pm and start eating with breakfast at 6am the next day. But when I try to input the day and start time in the PM end time the next day AM. I get an error of can not go beyond 24 hours.. I'm not it's only 12 hours.

I am new to IMF thought 12/12 fast and doing it over night would be easy for me.

Thanks Peggy

Answers

  • ShowPoodleGirl
    ShowPoodleGirl Posts: 36 Member
    I would just enter it as a normal day and not worry about trying to enter it in some IF way. I IF in that I happen to eat generally between 2:30pm-9pm (it just works with my day well/when I'm hungry) and I just enter it normally. If you were doing something like eating between 10pm-5am where it's going overnight then you'd need to mess with the hours, but since you're eating it in a normal day I would just enter it normally on the diary.
  • totameafox
    totameafox Posts: 630 Member
    eating between 6 am and 6pm sounds like a normal day. I wouldn't worry about what to call it. if you are eating by a clock you could label the segments by time or just leave it as breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. The two important things when losing weight is that 1) you are burning more calories than you consume 2) that you feel well while you are doing it.