This is interesting because last week when I finally lost weight, I pretty much skipped breakfast all week. All I had was a piece of fruit... So if I don't count that, I went from about 9 at night to about 12 the next day = 15 hours. My problem was that I take all my supplements/vitamins/minerals at lunch and this was making me nauseous because I had nothing in my stomache until that point... So perhaps I will have to try to stop eating after dinner and have a late breakfast. Heck, if I'm not having a night snack, my late breakfast can be huge! :-)

Let me know how this goes if you try it!

I can appreciate what he is saying and do seem to lose-maintain better when I stop eating around 5 pm. However, I have skipped breakfast on occasion and it severely impact my ability to focus and I ended up overeating at lunch and in the afternoon!

What is the newest fad. Shall we all try this one? How about eating while standing on one foot and rubbing your tummy? Couldn't hurt.

I think everybody is different even if they have hypothyroidism. I never skip breakfast and eat small meals throughout the day and sometimes snack like at 10pm like now. Had a few strawberries and watermelon. Still loosing, slowly, but surely.

yes study after study seems to have shown that people who skip breakfast tend to weight more. I hate eating breakfast but I find when I don't I am tired all day so I have a light breakfast (eggs & toast or a smoothie) I think the not eating in the evening is huge though, of course that is when I like to eat So I am working on that and if I do eat later eating easily digestable food (ie cottage cheese)

The longer fast is interesting but I wonder as everywhere I hear too that longer periods without food slow your metabolism, which is ok if you are sleeping of course so maybe that is more the key, not eating after dinner....oh I cringe at the thought but have heard it many times...;)

Lifting weights I think is HUGE too for speeding up your metabolism. Lifting heavier, lower reps seems to be the most efficient. I have been lifting since Jan and although my weight loss has been SUPER slow (I may have been eating too many calories) my muscle tone is amazing which makes me look much thinner and feel so much better, especially when the scale does not budge.

I've only had hypothyroidism for a week and I'm still googling ways to be healthier and lose weight! I'm very confused..please help

search on this group for the supplements & tips post as I tried to compile a list of the advice I got from here and around the web for supplements and lifestyle changes that have helped others and myself

That's interesting - I have been reading other books etc and they suggest three meals and one snack and no eating after dinner. Breakfast needs to be substancial to get the system going after the 10 to 14 hour fast. I am going to try it also.

I've been tending to eat like this anyway as I was trying fat burners before an early morning workout to boost metabolism and if I took them after food it made me sick.

so was eating breakfast after 9am when got back from dog's walk (well actually just a slim fast shake), sometimes another shake for lunch or sometimes just carrot sticks or apple slices for lunch then about 3pm doing main meal (salad or vegetables with lean white meat, fish or Quorn) , and not eating again until following morning 9-10am.

I seem to have stalled and my monthlies have gone really erratic not sure if its the diet/exercise or fat burners or just my age. (I'm 43)

'Ive got some T3 pills to try next they are meant to boost thyroid T3 production, as although I'm taking my T4 I don't think its converting to T3 very well, but GP's wont prescribe T3 or armour on the NHS here, so I'm forced to experiment 'unofficially' to see if it will make a difference.

I did have some T3 tablets to supplement my T4 but can't find same seller again on eBay, its popular on bodybuilding forums as part of a stack so must be somewhere in UK can buy it without prescription?