I know there's a lot of dedicated fasting folks around here, but I thought I'd share a little experiment I did over the last few weeks. I realized that I had gone three days eating my first meal a little after noon, and my last meal a little before 8pm. This is the basic concept of 16:8 IF, so I figured when not just go for it for a few weeks and see what happens?
I had no expectations one way or another, but IF to me always seemed like a way to really stay in control of my calorie count. Historically, I'd eat five or six small meals a day, starting with breakfast around 6am and dinner as late as 8pm.
My weight loss was very steady at 5 lbs a week for 10 weeks, but then began to slow down about three weeks ago. I didn't change any of my basic eating routines but I took a job transfer to a much more sedentary job, took on a lot of stress from transferring, and basically sacrificed one weekly trip to the gym. I figured this explained the weight loss slow down, but my new rate of loss is more acceptable and less dramatic, so it's not really a bad thing.
Anyway, over the last two weeks I haven't eaten anything before noon or after 8pm. The results? Well, the weight loss rate is still the same (slower). In the last three weeks I've lost about 8 or 9 lbs. Unfortunately, I found my hunger borderline uncontrollable when I got home from work each night. I don't want to eat anything heavy in the middle of the day, so by 6pm I had eaten maybe 500 calories, and the last two hours of my eating window I was trying to take down about 1500 calories. I was still eating good or not-bad food, but I was just a lot hungrier than normal.
Bottom line is that IF doesn't really seem to gel with my current schedule/lifestyle. I wouldn't call it a failure because I was still keeping up some weight loss, but it's just not for me. Proponents might suggest I do it longer, or take a different approach. I might revisit it down the line when my life settles down for a bit. Just thought I'd share that not everything is a glowing success or crushing failure.
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