Does anyone here do intermittent fasting? Any advice?
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Become homeless.
Fasting comes natural.
And it stuck with me even after.
🤷
Yikes but I feel you. Once your body gets adjusted to the fast, you won't even know you're fasting.
This.
#FastingFridays
Does being politically homeless count?
The less food you eat the more money you have for rent.
I'd say so.
Also forced fasting in a way. Lol
Great advice
I eat 12pm to 7pm every day. I didn't hop right to the schedule, I slowly weened myself to that schedule. At first I ate 10am to 8pm. Then kept shaving an hour off here and there. I will probably permanently stay at 12-7. But like anything in life. Just make gradual changes towards your goal. Much easier to attain.
Drink lots of water and the 1st 7 days are the hardest.
I did for awhile. Eating animal-based with higher saturated fat content makes it much easier.
I would eat a ribeye steak and some bone broth for my dinner around 4pm. Then eat my first meal the next day at roughly 9-10am.
Keeping busy helps too.
Intermittent fasting in ~some~ capacity is really important
The principal behind it is the cyclic behavior of catabolism and anabolism. That cyclic “clearing house” is unbelievably important from a metabolic/longevity perspective.
Generally, I think rules are good templates (16 hours no eating/8 hours of eating), but the real rule is this: if you’re hungry, eat. If you’re not hungry, don’t eat. I’d say 99/100 times that really does work.
There’s all sorts of reasons to make a concerted towards significant fasts, but I think generally people just want something they can stick to for the long term that will offer them some sense of flexibility but also give them results. Mess around with different time restrictions, but I think it ultimately gets back to only eating when you’re hungry.
Your diet is three factors. What you eat, when you eat, how much you eat.
As long as you control two of those, you’ll be straight. Generally I’d say what you eat and when you eat is more important than how much you eat. Because you are a dynamic being and sometimes you do more than you do other times. So if you’re cognizant of what you’re eating and when you’re eating, you will be 🤙🏼
Eat good few hours before you go to sleep. Drink more water daily. Have another sugar free drink/s during the day (tea, coffee, ice coffee). Make your meals super tasty and nutritious. 2 meals a day should be enough even if you starting.
Ive done it for years, now I dont even notice or think about it. Generally black coffee and water only until 13:00 then I eat what I want until 21:00.
Its easier if you eat meat / fat, eating sugar and a lot of carbs make it harder as you feel hungry within a few hours.
I'm not that rigid that I won't have breakfast if someone has invited me out though, its ok to break it here or there.
Yes
Peter Attia has quite a lot of content on evidence for fasting techniques if you like technical podcasts. I’ve done intermittent fasting as a prime to lead up to 72 hour fasts. I find meditation 10 minutes a day to be a great way to do this stuff. I also find that episodic intermittent fasting helps me get control of bad eating habits when they creep back in. Evidence is that intermittent fasting doesn’t have any benefit for weight loss compared to other diets. However, some people do really well and find it helps them lose weight. It’s a nuanced issue. If I do it I like to eat between the hours of 10 am and 6 pm but there is no one best way. The meditation helps you develop calmness about not eating when you first wake. Here is Peter’s new book that helps cover stuff like this too. 
Like others have said, ease up into it, shaving off one hour every couple of days or so, until you find a routine that works for you.
I generally try to not eat for 15-16h and I end my fasting (start my day) with a cup of bulletproof coffee since the fats neutralize a bit of the acidity of the coffee in my stomach.
Make it a Rocketproof and add a spoon of collagen 🚀 good for the skin and tissue recovery
The more you do it, the easier it becomes, the more you like it
quite easy to do, as long as you dont snack at night! dinner should end by 7pm. Have lunch at 1pm. coffee,tea or water in the mornings. easy peasy
I don’t eat between 8pm and 12pm. It was difficult to start and the best advice I got was “your body will lie to you and say your hungry. Ignore it.” Took me about a week to get through it and I had to eat a bit around 10 or 11 a couple of times but it’s easy now.
8 hrs on / 16 hours off
First months are hard, but get into the habit of always being hungry and alway be eating in your non-fasting window.
Download the app Zero. Daily clock to keep you honest. Never cheat the clock
Honestly it’s pretty damn easy. Just skip breakfast. It’s easy to make it to lunchtime. Eat dinner by 7:30 boom. 16-8
Start by just skipping breakfast, it's easier than it seems.
Eating healthy foods (non processed food, no sugar, no starch, no wheat, etc), like animal & plant sourced, and eating ONLY when hungry (forget about meal schedules), you don't need to bother with intermittent fasting. You will fast naturally.
Besides, if you ate at 6pm and then take your breakfast at 8am next day, or even skip breakfast to have lunch, you are already doing fasting time.
Yep. Lots of advice too.
1. Eat anything you want in whatever quantity for 1 hour in 24.
2. Remember that fat inspires the hormone leptin which is the only thing that will cause you to feel full and satisfied.
3. Incomplete protein and a significant portion of plant and some animal protein is broken down to glucose at a net energy loss.
4. Buy MCT oil and put it in black coffee if you get hungry. Leptin, and small molecules requiring zero digestion.
5. Enjoy feeling amazing, but remember it will take a few weeks for your body to open the fatty acids metabolic pathways after insulin has been entrenched for so long.
6. If you wonder how you’re doing, buy a blood ketone tester for $40 bucks.
Good luck!