Reply to If you do intermittent fasting....

Forum Index » Diet, Nutrition & Weight Loss

Reply to "If you do intermittent fasting...."

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve been doing it about two years. I typically fast from 7 pm-11 am. I drink black coffee and water and workout fasted. If I have a day where I might feel a little run down, am sick or get nauseous (very rare) I will eat. I just listen to my body. I do it for a few reasons but mainly to avoid before bed snacking and autophagy. I have a very surface level understanding of it but I guess it gives your cells a chance to repair and cleanup. [/quote]

This is me, but I think I'm at more like 4 years now. I lost about 50 pounds in the first couple of years and got out of the obese (started out in morbidly obese) category. My chronic heartburn is gone (took prilosec for a decade before). I also started a robust exercise routine around the same time so its hard to parse out exactly what is responsible for all of my changes but I believe 100% that the fasting is responsible for the weight loss and the weight loss is responsible for a lot of the health improvements. I am 38 and I think honestly I am healthier than I have been in my entire life.

I just don't think about eating before 11 or after 7. If I am going out to dinner with my husband or friends or something (something that happens maybe 1/2 times a month) then I don't worry about it and eat late. I will say that the timing of this means that I basically kind of stopped drinking alcohol. I will occasionally have a glass of wine with dinner but drinking too much ensures I'll be hungry after 9 and honestly sobering up while awake is unpleasant so I just don't drink in excess. I have turned into a really cheap date haha because now when I do go out I struggle to drink even 2 drinks without starting to feel bad. This has REALLY illustrated to me just how bad alcohol is for me because it really does feel like a poison! It throws me off for 2/3 days if I drink too much.

But like other posters my window is officially 11-7 but I will not infrequently go to anywhere from 12-2 before eating. And I generally stop eating after dinner so if we have a late dinner I'm not stressing if I take my last bite at 7:15, but conversely I might be 'done' eating at 6 if we eat early. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics