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I have a question about fasting, I have to eat breakfast every day. I work out in the morning and usually need to eat breakfast before I go to work otherwise I feel really dizzy...trust me this has happened more than I'd like to admit.
Is there any way that maybe I could just skip dinner? Like fast from 1pm to 7am the next morning?
Right; I have my one meal a day at breakfast. It's perfectly fine to do that, just another workable alternative among many in IF. My animals are used to being fed then and I like doing the kitchen thing and then not going in there again until the following morning.
FWIW, I started by doing breakfast and lunch, and then fasted from around 1:00 p.m. until the following morning. But after about two weeks of that switched to OMAD.
Here are 6 popular ways to do intermittent fasting.
• The 16/8 Method: Fast for 16 hours each day. ...
• The 5:2 Diet: Fast for 2 days per week. ...
• Eat-Stop-Eat: Do a 24-hour fast, once or twice a week. ...
• Alternate-Day Fasting: Fast every other day. ...
• The Warrior Diet: Fast during the day, eat a huge meal at night.
• Spontaneous Meal Skipping: Skip meals when convenient
I have a question about fasting, I have to eat breakfast every day. I work out in the morning and usually need to eat breakfast before I go to work otherwise I feel really dizzy...trust me this has happened more than I'd like to admit.
Is there any way that maybe I could just skip dinner? Like fast from 1pm to 7am the next morning?
I do 20:4 IF on weekdays, skip breakfast, skip lunch, eat dinner in the evening but when I workout, I will do it before I eat. This is the way to maximize fat burning. You will typically not lose fat if you exercise after a meal. I will ride my bike about 10 miles or walk briskly about 3.5 miles. I combine IF and Keto so my glycogen stores will be low anyway. It does take a couple of weeks to become fat adapted. All of this depends on the person and the body type of course. If you don't have at least a little extra fat and are already slender and doing IF for other reasons, this may not work you.
If you are otherwise healthy, your blood sugar should not go low. The body has a built in mechanism for this. It's a hormone called glucagon which keeps BG in check. So getting dizzy may be from something else or it may be you are not adapted yet. Either way, do what works for you. The idea is to fast for a certain number of hours, it does not matter which time of day those hours fall into.
I have a question about fasting, I have to eat breakfast every day. I work out in the morning and usually need to eat breakfast before I go to work otherwise I feel really dizzy...trust me this has happened more than I'd like to admit.
Is there any way that maybe I could just skip dinner? Like fast from 1pm to 7am the next morning?
Being dizzy is not good. There are many ways to do IF. The key is to have at least a 16 hour fast. I do a 20:4. I have breakfast at 6 am, do a two hour workout from 8 am to 10 am, then eat my last meal for the day at 10 am. In the beginning I worked out right after eating - that was not good. I got stomach aches. Please, if you're not feeling well change what you're doing.
I've lost 16 pounds even though I eat until I'm full every meal. I find that amazing. I do try to eat healthy, but every food is allowed. I don't obess over my carbs fats ratios. For example, for my second meal sometimes I have a healthy salad, other times I have a lox and onion omelette with rye toast and home fries , and on weekends I have a pizza with a dirty martini. I control when I eat, not what I eat. I don't calorie count.
I do IF - 16:8 most days, sometimes a longer daily fast. I really like it and feel like I actually have control over my eating habits now! Food no longer controls me.
I eat from 11 am - 7 pm most days, but it did take me a couple of months to work my way into that schedule. I started with fasting simply for 10 hours, then 12, then 14 and finally 16 + hours.
It's a really flexible lifestyle, and there are no IF police to come knocking on my door and tell me I'm doing it wrong if life happens and I only make it 15 hours one day.
I think it's pretty easy because it's uncomplicated.
From dinner time Sunday to dinner time Monday, no eating!
Then eat "something" that's no more than 600 calories. That's it for the "counting".
Repeat after dinner on Tuesday and after dinner on Thursday.
Lose weight!
I've been fasting daily for a few months now. Yesterday, was my longest fast 23 hrs. I was never hungry. I ate last night at 8 pm and it's 1 pm and I'm still not hungry. My wife has been watching me go through my whole Keto weight loss over the last year and has been a skeptic. At Thanksgiving I ran a 5K having fasted 16 hrs, I came in 3rd in my age group of 60 runners. 30 pounds lighter and feeling better than I have since college. My wife said she wants to start of this diet as she headed off to work today. The one thing I've noticed with fasting is you need to stay well hydrated.
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