What works best for you? Do you eat early in the day or late at night. Would be interesting if anyone has experience with both and what your preferences are. Personally i start eating at about 11am and finish before 6pm. Is there anyone in a 20/4 cycle that eats in the morning
23:1, omad at about 6 pm. Sometimes later if my work keeps me late, but I try not to eat after 8 max because I usually fall sleep better that way. I also work a physical job so that helps with losing more. My body clings to fat real hard so I found this pair up works best for me.
20:4 and I eat from 10 am to 2:00 pm and then I’m not hungry the rest of the day. But I guess I’m kind of in the minority. I’m starving all morning because I’m an anxious person so I can’t wait until noon. Once I get my calories in it’s no problem not eating anymore the rest of the day. But my kids are grown and I live alone so I can do what I want.
During my 20/4 intermittent fasting, I eat between 4-8pm. During my dry fasting, I eat and drink between 4-5pm.
During the day I’m busy and I don’t really think about being hungry, but later in the day and early evening is when it becomes a problem, that’s why I eat later in the day. I started out eating between 12-4pm, but after 4pm was brutal for me.
20:4 or some modified Omad. For 20:4 I’ll eat 2 full meals, sometimes with dessert (pineapple) in between.
For modified Omad I’ll break my fast with some broth (~6-12 cals) and 4 hours later have my big Omad.
If I eat early in the day, I’m hungry for the rest of the day and many times will break the fast early. I’m ok if I eat in the afternoon, but dinner time is best for me. That’s when I have the best success with keeping to a fast afterwards.
I’m 16/8, usually eating from noon-8 pm. This is later than would be ideal, but eating dinner together is important to my husband and me. If my fast doesn’t actually fit my life, I won’t be able to keep it, so this is what works. I’m in week 6 and down about 9 pounds so far.
For me, I eat from 7:30 to 12:30, because my plan was 18:6, but I always start eating at roughly 7:30, and lunch is over at 12:30. So when I’ve already eaten from 12:00-12:30, I don’t want to eat during the extra hour, or else I feel sick from eating too much. Nowadays it’s more like a 19:5 fast haha.
I prefer mornings because a) I start off my day with more energy b) when you wake up, you’re not nearly as hungry, so I can moderate portion size easier if I’m not that hungry and c) I don’t want calories sitting in my stomach from dinner. I know some people eat dinner at like 6:30, but if I did so, and go to bed at 10:30/11:00, my body would barely process the food. My blood sugar would stop rising, but other than that, the calories wouldn’t be burned off and I don’t need food to sleep anyway.
I do a 16:8 and my window is noon til 8.
Saturday’s are different because I cook breakfast for me and my wife. Then I’ll just eat supper at the normal time. 46lbs down since March and I’m currently in maintenance.