Intermittent fasting...

[Anonymous]

I'm down 6 pounds in just a week of doing this. No food (only water) between 8pm and noon. Between noon and 8pm, I eat what a want (within reason, I'm not binging on big Macs) I'm a 49-year-old female who hates having to think too much about what I'm eating, so this is working pretty well so far.

Is anyone else trying IF and having success?

[Anonymous]

Yep, I'm 15 months and -40 pounds in your future

Add exercise, that really helped me keep it going through the occasional plateau.

[Anonymous]

Yes, it definitely works for me! I'm down 20# since I started last Fall.

[Anonymous]

Down almost 20 in a year and that includes not being an exceptionally healthy eater. Could be more if I was more disciplined. IF is just another version of CICO, but it is really easy to understand and I haven’t had any problem sticking with it. Now if I could ditch the mid-day sweets cravings. Stupid sugar.

[Anonymous]

I use the Zero app. It's great for those who are visual people and like to track things. I do "dirty" IF...in that i have coffee in the morning with a little bit of oat milk. Other than that I usually stop eating around 7pm, work out in the morning, and eat around 10-10:30am. Super easy to do.

[Anonymous]

I did IF (no eating 6pm to 12 pm) but eventually hit a wall and could only go lower if I ate NO carbs, no sugar, no dairy etc. Once I added those back in, I gained all but 5lbs back.

[Anonymous]

I lost 35 pounds on IF and have maintained the loss with the 16-8 schedule for two years since. I've put back on about 5 pounds but still happy with the result. Reduced calorie consumption has to be part of the loss and you need to think about eating going forward - especially if you're not a kid anymore. Cut out as much sugar as possible - it'll kill you.

[Anonymous]

I’ve been doing it since March and am down 20lbs. I eat roughly 11-5pm. So, cup of coffee with milk and two lumps of sugar for breakfast, then a hearty lunch, and a hearty dinner around 5-5:30. It’s been pretty painless, I mostly only needed to cut out my after dinner snacking and big breakfasts. This is how I ate in high school and college when I was tiny, so I feel like I’m just getting back to my normal “intuitive eating” schedule, after having four pregnancies in 6 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yep, I'm 15 months and -40 pounds in your future

Add exercise, that really helped me keep it going through the occasional plateau.

Wowsa! I hope do. I do exercise daily in some form. Looks like I may need to scale back on sugars if I wants to push through the tough parts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yep, I'm 15 months and -40 pounds in your future

Add exercise, that really helped me keep it going through the occasional plateau.

Wowsa! I hope do. I do exercise daily in some form. Looks like I may need to scale back on sugars if I wants to push through the tough parts.

Eh everyone is different. I haven’t really cut sugar. What I did cut almost entirely was alcohol though