I’m brand new to IF. I decided to flip the switch from eating junk food every day to getting meal plans sent to my door weekly. I am pairing that with intermittent fasting.
Each meal is between 500-650 calories. I wake up around 11:30 am. I eat a meal right away, and about 2-3 hours later I eat another. Then I fast until the next morning. Ocassionally I eat an apple or banana to add onto that (within the fasting hours). I also want to eventually throw in some protein drinks into the mix. But as of now, that is what im doing.
My question is, is my window of eating bad? I typically see people on here completely skipping breakfast and eating later in the day instead. I am the total opposite, and I’m wondering if that has any negative side effects. I like to eat in that 2-4 hour window so that food is not a distraction from my work or other activities. I am also very sedentary.
Edit: To add, I FEEL fine. I go to sleep feeling a little bit hungry, but when I wake up i’m not starving or anything. I’m mainly wondering if what I am doing has any negative health effects or if there is a better way to lose fat.
It’s completely fine! Breakfast + lunch is a completely reasonable IF schedule, just as much as lunch + dinner. Having a later eating window is common simply because the evening meal is the main social/family meal in many cultures, so people often prefer not to skip it. It has nothing to do with health effects — it’s all social reasons. (I do dinner-only OMAD, and I chose dinner mostly for those social reasons.)
If breakfast + lunch fits better into your lifestyle, then you should carry on doing breakfast + lunch.