It’s not feeling that different to limit my eating to 8 hours. It’s been 4 days, not feeling much change; energy and weight the same. How significantly do I need to change my diet to see results. So far nothing seems that unusual. I just skip breakfast, have a normal portion lunch and eat an early normal portion dinner. What am I missing?
It’s only been 4 days, give it time. Most people only lose about a pound a week. A pound of weight loss can easily be hidden by your body’s natural fluctuation due to water weight and food/bowel contents.
Typically you would need to combine IF with calorie counting unless you are extremely overweight or extremely over eating at only breakfast. Also 4 days is not a long time for the physical changes to take place, give it 2 weeks to a month. Some see cahnges faster than others.
Back to addressing the what you might be missing. Using myself for example, if all I did was cut out my breakfast that I used to typically eat but left everything else as was, I would still have been eating an excess of calories my body needed in any given time period. Lets say at my heaviest, to maintain I would need 3000 calories, but I was eating 3800 calories in a day on average, if I cut out my 700 calorie breakfast as my only change, I am still eating 100 calories over my maintenance calories and I would still gain weight (slower, but still gaining).
Have you calculated you TDEE yet to know what your calorie deficit is? If not we can help!
Like people said it takes time to lose weight in a healthy way. 1 week isn’t very long. Stick to 8 hours for a couple weeks. Once that gets easy or you stop seeing progress then you can go to 6 hours, then eventually 4 hours. I’m currently eating 6 hours a day and seeing good progress.