🍩 21 hours of fasting, then two doughnuts. Doing great, sir!
@JMaxB I’m trying to get this one off the ground 🤣🤣 Not sure about long time sustainability though…
@Munish I’m finding it easier every day. When I ate normally, I’d be hungry often. These days I’ll go over the planned 16 hours with ease. As long as I’m having water, I feel no hunger.
@maique that’s really good. If I have coffee in the sixteen hours, I find I get fasting breath. Working on going for longer and drinking more water.
@Munish I never had breakfast anyway, so that’s an easy way to get some extra hours, and I’m eating a lot less at lunch and dinner most days. And none of the in-between snacks, or late night craziness. As soon as I’m done with dinner, I’m eating nothing up to lunch.
@maique Nicely done, Maique! Did you follow a specific fasting plan, or just figure out what works best for you? Breakfast is my favourite meal and food, so I’d want a method that allows me to keep it in the rotation. Do you exercise coming off the fast before eating anything else, or do you do that before fasting?
@pimoore I’m doing it in a very relaxed way. A simple 16/8.
As I skip breakfast, and have early dinners (thanks, tinyMovieStar), when morning comes I’m well into the fasting hours, the body is burning fat already, or about to. That’s when I exercise (and I use this term loosely). I’ll walk around an hour or two. During that “exercise”, I keep burning fat. I get back home, and wait for lunch. Usually a few more hours, or I’ll just skip it if not hungry.
@maique @pimoore @manish I'm excited about this topic. I do 16:8 (and often more) consistently through the week... have been doing so for a while now. I'm at a weight loss plateau (though I think that's due to hormonal issues) but I feel 100% better, more energy, easier to focus when I stick to my fasting plan
@pimoore Yep, that's easiest for me. I don't like breakfast. Well: I LOVE breakfast food, but I don't usually want to eat in the morning. So I just slowly pushed back when I eat lunch. It was hard at first but now it's a relief -- I don't need to think about food until the work day's almost done. Sometimes I get hungry but not usually.
@maique I did similar last year. At some point I really did a lot of workouts but now I barley find the energy. My experience is also that everything is best if I don’t have breakfast. Also skipping snacks in the evening helps not being hungry in the morning (which is weird). In general I feel much much better that way, but it’s still mentally extremely difficult to stick to it. I heard one thing somewhere during that time though and I found it to be true and encouraging: „You have to accept plateaus!“ Forget about it if there’s a few weeks of stagnation. Don’t even change too much. Yes, moving your ass will work 😉 But even without it, the journey will continue. Don’t get discouraged, it just takes a little time for the body to adjust. And always realize how awesome it is what you already accomplished 😊 @Annie @pimoore @Munish
@hutaffe Thank you. I’m not disappointed, yet, just surprised. Pretty new to all this, and had no idea what to expect going in. I’ll keep at it, that’s for sure. Feeling great all the same 🙂
@hutaffe @maique @pimoore @munish Thanks for that encouragement! I’ve noticed the same thing with snacking at night. If I have dinner and then don’t eat again, I usually feel good all morning and only start to get hungry when it’s about an hour from lunchtime (usually 2pm for me). But if I snack, I’ll wake up ravenous.
@maique I adore walking especially very long walks. I go in and out of 'being a runner' but walking is a steady part of my life (though my mileage varies, too).
@jasonekratz @Annie @pimoore @maique wow. I only went to sleep and came back to a wonderful and insightful conversation. How do you all overcome the challenge of wanting to eat more than a standard meal when you break your fast? Is this overcome by drinking more water ? I find, I end up just consuming the missed meal too, in a shorter window before starting to fast again.
@Munish Same here! Just waking up, and so many notifications.
Regarding the meals, I’ll just forget them. I found it got easier after a while. Sometimes I’ll just get a glass of water, or find something to do that will take my mind off it.
@jasonekratz @Annie @pimoore You are all right, finding what’s right is the most important thing. I might overestimating my ability to enjoy running.
An electric bike would also be a possibility, and we’ve talked about it here in the past, just not sure where I’d fit that in my days. Also the city is far from perfect for cycling. I did it years ago, but not for fun/sport, I used it to move around, going to work, the usual. People here drive like crazy, and I had to get into a mood I don’t this I’d enjoy now.
@helgeg This is the first time I’ve heard the word, and yet it seems I know this so well, from decades with a camera bag! I’ve been rucking all my life! 🤣🤣 The weight distribution is all wrong on my version of it, but I’m willing to give your thing a try.
Maybe take it a step further too: add some clothing in there, maybe swim trunks, some toiletries, go on a trip. I would call it… backpacking! 🤓🤣🥳
@helgeg Sorry about that. I do try to keep up with you kids, and your lingo, but it’s getting harder every day! 2.0, you say? 🧐
@timapple Thank you. I visited their site some time ago, but found the backpacks a little too militaristic. Being a Fjällräven user for a while now, usually in bright colors, I found it hard to move away 😅
@jasonekratz @pimoore @annie @munish I’ll put in a plug again for the run/walk. I’ve been doing this for a couple of years (along with intermittent fasting) and I love it. I use an Intervals app but it’s not necessary. My current interval is walk for 100 seconds then run for 45 seconds, repeat for as long as you want. I typically do an hour or more! I started out with walking for 4 minutes, running for 30 seconds. You could run for 10 seconds! It’s all up to you.
@Munish i do eat more than a standard meal when I break my fast, but I make sure it’s healthy. Usually it’s lentils or beans, sautéed vegetables, salad and some lean protein. I eat a big serving and often don’t feel hungry at dinner so will eat a very small helping then.
@jasonekratz @Munish @Annie @pimoore @maique I’m a bit late to this conversation, but I’m also on team intermittent fasting. I started at 16:8, but one meal a day tended to be the sweet spot for me.
That OMAD is usually much bigger, but I’ve found that it’s also much healthier. I try to think of these things in day-long blocks rather than focus on individual meals being too "big" or too "small". That's what works best for me!
(Apologies for the double reply here-- can we blame daylight saving time for my fat fingers??)
@Munish honestly, it just fits in well with my schedule: I’ve got kids that eat at 5:30pm (which I think is the perfect time for the OMAD) and I’ve never been a big breakfast eater.
Most of all I try not to be so militant about it: I relax it most Saturdays and when life gets in the way. I find allowing myself that flexibility helps me stick to it 85% of the time. But as with all things: your mileage may vary!!