Doing good for Wednesday!! I really like this fasting approach. and shall keep my mindset on this for life. I am a stay at home caregiver to my mom and somedays am busy and not think about food so much...I do not track calories or such..and this is easy, simple for my lifestyle..

I ate an early dinner...so my fasting is on now thru the morning...

Have a good Thursday..Later..:)

For those doing 16/8, how long did you do it before you felt as if it were second nature and/or didn't get really hungry between meals?

I like that Lillian,,,,the tummy guide.....

Hiya all..Have decided not to fast..Although it helped on keeping my sugar level..but love to eat and snacking...so This morning taken out my diet box out and found a 1980s eating plan ...of fat counting. I started today and doing good so far...

Good luck to all...:hug:

Hi Liliann. I'm sorry this isn't working for you and I hope you find something that does. Best of luck!

Funny you say that you love to eat and snack and that's why it doesn't work. For me, I think that's why it DOES work! But everyone is different :)

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My second week back to 5:2 went well. I'm almost back to my low weight, just a pound up, which is good because it means I'm losing with 2 fasts instead of 3! Sunday through Tuesday I have a conference, which for me I think will make it easier not to indulge too much (as opposed to being at home!). I'm going to try to fast on Tuesday since we'll be done mid-afternoon and then I can head home and have my 500 calorie dinner. Going to bring my running shoes and try to keep up with Couch to 5K while I'm there too :)

Oh, and I got my hair chopped off. I posted pics in another thread if you want to see. So freeing!

How is everyone else doing? nayla, miss you around here though I'm sure you are busy with all of your travels!

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Hi. I've been a member of 3FC for a while. I have not gotten in to all the weighing and so on. I've also tried a lot of diet techniques with not much radical change. So, I read up on the warior diet. I read about it several years ago, but thought it sounded a bit harsh. As for whether the romans ate one large meal per day? Most people living in the Roman Empire were slaves or overtaxed peasants. Oh, they are talking about rich Roman citizens. What can I say.

One thing. When I was in high school, I usually skipped breakfast, had a token lunch, and ate like a chow hound for dinner. I was a perfect weight. I would say moderately active. I started to see the resemblance to the one meal per day "plan" And my old eating habits.

So, if I can eat one or two hundred calories during the day some fruit or vegies, then about 7 or 8 pm (I eat dinner late because I can't go to bed hungry) eat a 1500 calorie meal, I think I could deal with that.

Hi everyone! After reading this entire forum... okay, maybe it just seemed like it ;) I've decided this seems like the best fit for me.

I've done the 16/8 fasting before and it fits my lifestyle very well. I like to get up and do house work, exercise, etc. on an empty stomach and then "break fast" with an early lunch at 11:30, have dinner around five and a last snack at 7:30, after "Jeopardy." If I don't manage to answer at least one question, I don't get a snack. Why set up for failure, right?

I'm also going to eliminate sugar. It's a binge trigger for me and I simply don't handle it well.

I'm starting tomorrow April 1st, no fooling!

Thanks for being here, you all seem great!:hug:

Thank you so much. I am not too familiar but someone on here recommended Liporidex to me because it's all natural and doesn't contain a crazy amount of caffeine, nothing different than a cup of coffee. Well its been a few days and it has been helping me so much with my IF. I don't even think about food when I am fasting, but i am only doing a couple days a week, have to start somewhere but this seems like something I will be able to do png term. I haven't noticed any negative side effects and my friend who has been taking it for longer hasn't either. The ingredients are great, I took your advice and looked at them all.

It's April 1st now and I have a big goal set for the end of this month! I am confident now that I can do this! :)

This is my first log-in in over 10 years, and this is the first time I've ever heard of IF. I have 20 lbs to lose, this is weight I regained after achieving a 60lb loss years ago.

Anyone done IF for maintenance and/or had long-term success with IF as a loss method?

I came across an article of Dr. Mercola's he put on FB on why it works and why he favors it. I've been reading it... it is kind of long so haven't finished it. But I liked seeing all the results of the research that has been done with it.

I have shared before here that this is the way I ate growing up and never had a weight problem until I started eating "normal". Strange how that after all that "brainwashing" over the years of "you have to eat breakfast" and you have to "eat 3 meals+ 2 or 3 snacks"... I've even heard of one that says you must eat every 3 hrs. My doctor says that is because they don't want you to get hungry.

I am having a hard time getting back to IF, but I am so sure this is the right way for me to eat especially after reading what I have of Dr. Mercola's article. The strange thing I've been experiencing lately is a fear of being hungry. I really DO NOT understand this feeling. In fact, the amazing thing is when DH and I used to travel, we can go for hours without getting hungry and finally stop and eat just because it is getting late and we didn't want to eat too late. So I have to wonder where in the world did this feeling come from. I think it is just plain "brainwashing" to believe that feeling hunger is a bad thing. I'm curious if anyone else has experienced this. I seem to feel this mostly on the week end when I have go some where in the mornings. I don't know why I experience it the other days because I am retired and don't have to go any where during the week.

I am determined to get back to eating the way I did as a young girl. Dr. Mercola says that they have found that people who eat within a window of up to 12 hrs even when their eating isn't ideal that they lose weight and improve health. It seems that the 5:2 method seems to be the best way from what I've read so far and hope I can finally work up to doing that, but for now it would be nice to get back to the 8/16 I was doing about a year ago.

Here is the link if anyone would like to read it especially if you are just starting or thinking about it.

http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fit...d-eating.aspx?

I haven't been on this IF thread in a while, but I would like to be more active on this thread as we encourage each other.

I'm going to shoot for 10 hr window today. Saturday and Sunday aren't as easy to have short windows as Monday - Friday are.

Hey all, just finished a week of maintenance. Partially because my schedule was crazy last week and I was sick, so I figured it was best as I haven't had a break in a while. Looking forward to my 500 calorie fast today. Having some coffee with fat free milk and stevia to get me through. It's going to be a late dinner unfortunately!

Hope everyone is doing well.

Noname Congratulations on a week of maintenance. That is wonderful.

I printed out the info on the link I shared yesterday so I could read again and mark what I need to remember. I am so glad that this article explains how to eat and exercise while doing IF. I am more convinced than ever that this is the best way to lose weight and be healthy. I am especially happy with the fact that he explains how that diabetics do better when exercising on an empty stomach for wteight loss etc. Am obviously as some of you already know the HF, moderate protein and veggies woe is the best way to go.

Although I am shooting for the 8/16 IF right now, it seems that the research he shares shows that the 5:2 method is better so I will need to work towards that in time. But first things first. Right now the smart thing is for me to start where I am with the 8 hr window.

Drinking my coffee black today and just realized that I've gone longer on my fast than I had planned which is good because I'm also trying to do IE along with this so I'm waiting for the "true" hunger to show up. If I can do a smaller eating window that would be even greater. I used to do the 5 hr window. I could even live with that if I could get back to it as that was my major lifestyle of eating when I was growing up and every time I've been thin throughout the years. I usually wasn't married when I ate that way. I believe if I could get back to the 5 hr window with a 19 hr fast everyday that I wouldn't even worry about a 5:2 woe.

I ended up eating within and 8 hr window yesterday so I've got 1 successful day behind me.

Patty, I could have written most of your post (except for the 5:2 part---I don't think I'll try that method). I, too, LOVE this WOE. I've been trying to do 16/8 and getting having more and more success with each each week. In fact, today and yesterday, I went more than 16 hours, and I'm finding that I'm not nearly as hungry before I eat as I was when I started. It's amazing because when I was doing straight calorie counting, I would already be planning what my lunch would be while I was eating my breakfast! I couldn't take that "diet head" any longer, which is why I had to do something else. 16/8 fits well into my lifestyle.

Along w/ 16:8, I've also been trying to follow the NoS diet principles of eating one-plate meals (i.e., no second helpings), saving sweet treats for weekends, and not snacking between meals. I've been doing okay with that, but sometimes I fall off the wagon with the snacking part. I figure, though, that if I combine 16/8 w/ NoS, I should be able to eat pretty much exactly what I want with each meal without doing too much damage calorie-wise.

lin43 I actually went a little over 18 hrs of fasting because I didn't get hungry until then. So my eating window will be more like 6 yrs today. I agree with you this is so much easier. I'm doing mine with IE, but I will check into the NoS ideas too.

I do like the 8/16 plan, but I think by using IE idea of waiting for hunger that I may find that the eating window will be smaller most days depending on what is going on. DH and I are both in the process of getting our blood sugar under control. We eat our main meal together usually around 2 or 3 in the afternoon. However, he worked nights for so many years that he eats his last meal/snack around 3 in the morning so I hope we can get him on a 12 hr eating window which means we would wait until at least 3 or 3:30 before we have our main meal. I would love to get to the place that I could go from 8 in the evening until 3 pm the next day fasting. So I'm working toward that. However, there are days when circumstances makes it necessary to do 8 hrs so I feel that IF fits a day when I want only one meal or a day when I want 8 hrs or somewhere in between. It is just a great plan all the way around for me.

I could not do calorie counting, pts or carbs either. My problem when I first started following WW and later when I did calorie counting was the fact that I would get fussed at because I didn't eat all my pts/calories because I didn't get hungry. MFP writes in red "You aren't eating enough". I was informed that I had to eat them or I would have a difficult time on maintenance. Once I made myself eat all the pts/calories, I found that they weren't enough because they threw me into a place where I was hungry ALL the time. Carb counting doesn't fit my lifestyle either because I can low carb for a while, but then I get hungry for carbs not allow. Fasting does away with all those struggles. I lose slowly any way at my age so I figure that if I'm going to lose slowly, why not do something that I can enjoy along the way. I decided this was good enough when I was young and had no name for it so maybe it is good enough for me now.

As I've shared earlier, I also like knowing that because of my insulin resistance, that I need to exercise on an empty stomach in order to lose weight. I think I've been doing everything wrong for IR/diabetes control.

patty - I'm not sure my week of maintenance deserves congrats. I was just taking a break from fasting. :P

If your eating windows are working, ignore the guy who thinks 5:2 is "better." I personally do 5:2 and prefer it to daily eating windows, but you're still following a very beneficial eating plan. You've gotta choose what's best for you and most manageable long-term, even if it's not the "best" according to some research. What are you doing for your workout routine?

lin - glad to hear things are working out for you. 16:8 with NoS seems like it would be difficult every day! So it's good you aren't beating yourself up when you don't follow it completely.

I did my first outdoor run on Sunday. Yikes! I was not at all prepared. Looking forward to trying again, but it's supposed to rain the rest of the week. Just two weeks left of my Couch to 5K training. Looking forward to incorporating some morning runs into my routine (for the reasons you mentioned, patty!), but that's going to take me a while. I am not a morning person :)