IF and migraines

[Anonymous]

There are so many people (on here and in my real life) that love IF, I’ve been tempted to try it. But I have super severe migraines and getting over-hungry is one of my biggest triggers. How do you do it so as to not get headaches?

[Anonymous]

Me too! I have migraines and skipping meals or being hungry is a big trigger. For me, I have a large cup of coffee at breakfast with some high protein low carb milk. Then I make sure I eat minimum 20-30 grams of protein at lunch and dinner with more high protein snacks in between meals and after dinner. Snacks are 15 g or more. Works for me and do not have headaches as long as protein is high and meals are more or less on same schedule.

[Anonymous]

I'm not able to do alternate day fasting, but I haven't had any issues with 16:8 or even 18:6. I do have coffee in the mornings though and end up drinking more water than usual, so that probably helps.

[Anonymous]

Did you just ramp up slowly? If I decided to just skip breakfast today and not eat til lunch I would 100 percent have a migraine. I was thinking of trying to push back breakfast a little each day and make sure I’m not eating after dinner

[Anonymous]

Pushing back breakfast probably would work. Combine that with having a large coffee with a good .5-1 cup of milk in it at the time you nornally have breakfast, but push the actual
breakfast food back slowly toward linch.

[Anonymous]

I rarely get migraines, but the one time I fasted until 1 pm I had an incapacitating migraine and had to lie down the rest of the day. I try to stop eating early in the day rather than forgoing breakfast, but I'm never going to do a crazy long fast.