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How to avoid eating large meals with IF?

Hi,

Whenever I do more than 16 hours of intermittent fasting, I am ‘’forced’’ to eat large meals in the smaller windows, as to get enough calories. I understand that snacking is discouraged on IF.

But it’ pure misery for me to eat large meals that leave me feeling full. I just don’t like to eat a lot.

Doing 16/8 I can still squeeze in 3 smaller-size meals without snacks.

How do you manage a smaller eating window (18/6, 19/5 etc). without eating large amounts of food in one sitting?

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You can snack within your eating window if you prefer.

When I’ve had my fill, I stop eating.

If I’m short on calories for the day, I eat a salad with an olive oil-based dressing and it’s calorie-heavy.

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In my opinion, it would be easiest to take your caloric intake, divide it by your eating window, and spread your calories evenly throughout. It’s a bit of a hassle I’m sure, but you would certainly avoid large meals.

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I don’t know who said snacking is discouraged but I usually fast 18-20 hours and almost always break my fast with a small easy to digest snack like a handful of almonds or a small yogurt. If I break my fast with a normal or large meal I frequently will get stomach cramps immediately after my meal.

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