I’m doing a 20/4 fast using an app on my phone. I’m confused about the 4 hour eating period and what I should do. The app says I go back into fast a 1:08pm, but I have no intention of eating again today. I’m done with that. Am I supposed to eat more during the eating period? Maybe I eat something when I enter it and then eat something before I exit it?
As the name imply, it’s a window, a period of time where you allow yourself to eat. You could eat at the beginning, middle or end or slowly for all of its duration, it doesn’t matter.
You don’t have to binge eat for 4 hours straight 😉
And if you notice you only eat for 1h and always at, say, the beginning of the window, then you are actually doing 23:1
That’s it, there is nothing else to it really.
I just restart my window when I’m done eating. The other day I ate at 3pm fully expecting to eat again around five. At five I was still satiated and felt good so I restarted my clock for 3:30pm when I finished that meal. It’s just a longer fasting window for me.