Hey y’all I was wondering if those who have a monthly change their fasting times during “that’ week. I just started back up and I’ve been struggling with sticking to a 20:4 so I went to an 18:6 and was thinking of going back to 20:4 once my “visitor” is gone haha.
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From the day your period starts, and 14 days after, your hormone profile makes it easy to fast.
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Also forgot to add if they see any changes during the different fasting times. I wanted to give myself some grace since I’m restarting this again and as soon as I’ve started I actually “started” my period lol. I’m so sorry to those who find this gross or anything I’m just genuinely curious.
It’s counterintuitive that it can be easier to fast during your period, but as other posters stated that’s a good time to fast. However, I have definitely had months where that’s when I feel the most cravings. That may be because I restricted when my body was preparing for a potential pregnancy and it’s upped cravings or hunger pangs to push me to make up the calories or nutrients that I skipped during the ideal phase 🤷🏻♀️
I do eat salty food when I’m craving it, whether it’s before or after a period, and try to remind myself that the scale will spike in response and then whoosh on a day in the near-ish future. I find that an app like Happy Scale helps, because it averages your weight and lets you see the pattern rather than fixate on the day’s gain. I can also do the same thing logging my weight in Excel or Sheets, and create a column where I have my weight as the average of the prior 7-10 days.
Overall, I think it’s great that you’re fasting, and I find keeping a fasting schedule that feels somewhat comfortable, and is therefore maintainable, is most important.