Intermittent Fasting Support Group?

This is what happens when I don't fast in the morning: 4 pm and only 291 calories left for the day :sad:

This is what happens when I don't fast in the morning: 4 pm and only 291 calories left for the day :sad:

Time for a nice big meal.

so today in the gym at 615am I felt a bit lightheaded a few times. It was a fasted workout. I drank some more water and was ok. Just wondering if anyone else has had that?
the sunday was a fasting day so hadn't eaten a whole lot (but still a good meal, dessert and two snacks)
ate today from lunchtime as not a fasting day-how yummy are the vegetarian burgers at grill'd? And only 480 calories-yay!

yeah ok it could have been from not drinking much water when I woke up or the 1/2 sleeping tablet I took the night before. The perils of shiftwork

Hi any advice on what i should do next. I started my first 24hr fast last sunday that was fine ended up being 36hrs because i start late in the evening, I did another on the friday to Saturday (so just under a wk later) i ate normally saturday but sunday an Monday (today) I have had a sickness bug and haven't eaten a thing. I have managed to keep water down today but I dont feel like eating still but worried I'm slowing down my metabolism coz I'm not breaking my fast it's now been 41 hrs plus I fasted Friday. I still feel sick but should I try to make myself have soup? I can drink now but can't face toast or anything, a thin soup maybe, but would that be enough to stop my metabolism slowing or do you have to fast a long time to have an effect ? This is the worse bug i've had

It takes up to 72 hours to have any significant effect on your metabolism. For that matter, unlike most people think, your metabolism does not vary that much. The things that raise it may increase your burn by 100 or so calories a day, and unless you are starving long term the slowing is negligible. I would just concentrate on getting well, and stop worrying about your metabolism. For that matter if you are ill with a fever, your metabolism is increased which is why your body temperature is up.

Third fast day of every other day IFing. So far so good. I am hungry, but not overly so. I will drink some more water and green tea which I know will help. I need to last to 6, but probably if I get there won't be eating until 8 making it 26 hours.

Good job! I'm fasting again tomorrow & hoping I'm not as hungry as I was yesterday And just after I think I'm good and used to it

All went well. I'm cooking up some honey garlic sausages right now and some veggies to break fast. At this point it will be another half hour (at least) before I eat. That makes it 28+ hours so far. Not starving either. So far a win for every other day. Will weight in tomorrow morning and see how it does for my weight.

Can't wait to hear how you did!

Weight in was no change. That is sort of disappointing, but in light of the fact that I really over ate on Saturday (big family dinner at the in-laws for their anniversary and thanksgiving since that is when we could get together as a family). I probably ate 3000+ calories then and lots of sodium. I am thinking this is a win because I didn't gain anything. I would have preferred a loss, but this is better than a gain. I have this week off, and we will be out at various events so I will be eating less than great. I plan to continue the alternating days fasting and see what happens after the week is over.

Reporting in after my first week of intermittent fasting LG style. Mon-Fri - took some getting used to, but definitely doable. I felt great! My workouts didn't suffer (I workout at lunch) and it was really nice not to worry about calories at night. I stuck to my macros and it was all good.

Went backpacking this weekend and knew I needed to eat breakfast before hiking, so I stopped eating at 6:30 Friday night, which made for a decent window of fasting by the time I ate Saturday morning. However, I was ravenous all day Saturday and Sunday! I think it's much harder for me to get a handle on my appetite when I eat earlier in the day.

Back on track today, hoping the time change doesn't make me want to crawl the walls waiting for breakfast time!!!

Third fast day of every other day IFing. So far so good. I am hungry, but not overly so. I will drink some more water and green tea which I know will help. I need to last to 6, but probably if I get there won't be eating until 8 making it 26 hours.

Good job! I'm fasting again tomorrow & hoping I'm not as hungry as I was yesterday And just after I think I'm good and used to it

All went well. I'm cooking up some honey garlic sausages right now and some veggies to break fast. At this point it will be another half hour (at least) before I eat. That makes it 28+ hours so far. Not starving either. So far a win for every other day. Will weight in tomorrow morning and see how it does for my weight.

Can't wait to hear how you did!

Weight in was no change. That is sort of disappointing, but in light of the fact that I really over ate on Saturday (big family dinner at the in-laws for their anniversary and thanksgiving since that is when we could get together as a family). I probably ate 3000+ calories then and lots of sodium. I am thinking this is a win because I didn't gain anything. I would have preferred a loss, but this is better than a gain. I have this week off, and we will be out at various events so I will be eating less than great. I plan to continue the alternating days fasting and see what happens after the week is over.

Could just be the sodium! It does me in every time. After a couple of days of drinking loads of water, I do fine and my weight levels back out.

Have a fun week!

This is kind of a gross question so be warned..............

Does anyone else have this problem? My bowel movements are no longer predictable. I've been doing 16/8 during the week and eating breakfast as usual on the weekends. I guess the different schedule of intake leads to a different schedule of output?

hey! The groups have been added to MFP! Would someone like to start one for IF??? :drinker:

hey! The groups have been added to MFP! Would someone like to start one for IF??? :drinker:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/49-intermittent-fasting

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love LG way 16/8, been doing it for over 2 weeks now

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I want to try IF but don't know if it's right for me. I'll give you a little background. I have bulimia and binge eating disorder so I wonder if this will mess with my screwed up already head. And I weigh 303 pounds which is fricken huge. I do very little exercise, one because I have bursitis in my hips so it hurts to walk, and two I really want to drop pounds first before I start exercising so it's not so hard on my body. Do you have to be doing body builder exercising? I want to do the daily 16 hour fast starting at 8 pm and ending at noon. So in that 8 hr window I have to eat, do I eat at my goal that mfp has set for me? I've got it set at losing two pounds per week eating around 1600 calories a day. I eat the majority of my calories at dinner time. Does that matter? What kind of meal should I eat to break my fast. I usually start my day off real slow with a 110 calorie EAS protein drink and work my way up to a big calorie dinner, eating about five times a day. Sometimes the big calorie dinners mess with my head, making me feel like I've binged even though I am under goal. And then I do binge. It has gotten a lot better though. Last year I lost 80 pounds with mfp but ended up gaining back 55. I have now lost another twenty so kinda feel back on track, but I feel I need a different way of eating and dealing with food. Any advice you all could give me would be greatly appreciated. I really want to try this. Thank you. Jacki.

Actually there are a lot of people on here who do it, from what I've seen. I gave it a try fr a couple days. (Not eating until lunch) It was really nice how I had a ton of calories left for dinner but I like to eat breakfast so I decided it's not for me.