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Yes it works. By skipping meals you shrink calories consumed.
Also, shrink your homemade breakfast and lunches to smaller amounts. That should work too.
Also, changing the types of food you eat to helps. Example no bread or pasta. Replace with a low carb veggie or plain protein instead.
As long as you are counting your calories and what goes in < what goes out, you should lose weight.
Fasting is a tool which can help you control the what goes in side. But if you don’t know what you are putting in, in the first place…sure it might help? Who knows? You may be picking up 90% of your calories in Lunch and dinner and guess what? It probably won’t have an impact then.
give it a try, skip breakfast. And see how your body react, if you fail after an hour or 2, it’s no big deal, then you just keep pushing your “breakfast” towards lunch time, and eventually your breakfast hits lunch time.
When i started out, it took me roughly a week or so to get used to 2 meals a day, after that i barely felt any hunger before lunch time.
I have lipoedema and it causes me to struggle a lot with weight loss. I’ll regularly gain like 4-8 lbs overnight.
For me, I’ve found that specific foods precipitate the weight gain. For me it’s anything with carbs in it, fish, or nightshades. But I’ve found that other women with lipoedema have very different food triggers than me, and you might not have the same problem at all!
But what I do know is that 8kgs overnight isn’t normal fat gain. That’s water weight. And for me, getting rid of water weight means giving my body time absent whatever caused the weight gain to get rid of it on its own. I do really well with intermittent fasting, either with 1 meal a day, or with 2 meals a day, where the first meal is something I know is easy to digest that I do well on, like chicken and bone broth, a protein shake, or avocado.
I also really had good results on an elimination diet, where I started off just eating the foods that I know my body responds well to (which for me is beef and avocado) and each day I’d add a new food to the list. If the next day I’d gained weight, I’d put that food on the “potentially sensitive” list and avoid it. So now, I spend 6 days a week intermittent fasting and only eating foods I’m not sensitive to, and then once a week I’ll allow myself to eat whatever. That way, I’m not feeling deprived permanently, but my body has time to get rid of the water weight in between.
For me, tried keto, some success, but doesn’t go down further. Tried IF, no success. Tried OMAD, no success. Tried 3-7 day fasts, no success. Currently trying a 30-40 day fast, currently on day 14 and its working. I think you should try, and eventually you’ll find something that works.