Last night I came home from work, ate some grapes, an apple and then made a vegetarian chili and was super full and didn’t feel like eating more. This morning, I’m okay for now, but knowing I ate very few calories in total for the day (I think 700 would be about right) makes me wonder how to deal with this pattern. Eat earlier today if I get hungry? Push through to dinner? I’m sure I can make it, but I want to keep things sustainable. Curious about what others do. For context, I’ve lost baby weight and am now 132, trying to lose a few more pounds but slowly, no rush.
If I’m legitimately hungry and I know I was short, I’ll usually break the fast early and then just get back on schedule (so end eating at the usual time, not early in a way that shifts the windows). To me that feels most supportive of slow losses. I’d rather work on figuring out how to get more calories in next time I’m really not feeling it (usually what I actually do is delay the start of the fast a bit so I can eat more then, and it’s just a little short instead of potentially 6+ hrs short) than push through real and strong hunger. Just imo, clearly other people do it other ways and that’s fine too.
That said, 700 calories can be fine for just an occasional day, as long as nobody takes it as a reason to deliberately try to only ever eat that few. Sometimes it’s just how things work out, and if it doesn’t lead to you wanting to rebound overeat, there’s no harm just letting it be.
I pay attention to weeks more than days. So obviously you don’t want to eat 700kcal a day, that’s not enough. But 700 once or twice a week? Or even nothing once or twice a week? No problem, that’s healthy! Just eat a little more on the other days.