16:8 eating window

12 watchers

Hills of Death (HOD) Nov 2020 10:25am, 29 Nov 2020 35,236 posts	0 Hills of Death (HOD) Anyone tried this for weight management or to drop some poundage. Sounds temping 🤔
Velociraptor Nov 2020 10:33am, 29 Nov 2020 50,088 posts	0 Velociraptor Intermittently Fashionable. Works by calorie restriction and not by any magic metabolic jiggery-pokery. Likely to be harmless.
EvilPixie Nov 2020 10:35am, 29 Nov 2020 20,737 posts	0 EvilPixie When on holiday I get up later so often skip breakfast Doesn’t seem to make any difference to anything Same as the “fasted training” I often train before breakfast but that’s because I Cba to get up early enough to eat before!
Hills of Death (HOD) Nov 2020 10:36am, 29 Nov 2020 35,239 posts	0 Hills of Death (HOD) Thanks V Rap I’m thinking of encorp into my normal my fitness pal regime as this seems to work lost 8lb since July.
Dvorak Nov 2020 11:25am, 29 Nov 2020 21,490 posts	0 Dvorak McGoohan, and Liebling. McG has some blogs on it.
Dvorak Nov 2020 11:29am, 29 Nov 2020 21,491 posts	0 Dvorak Like this one fetcheveryone.com/blog/137/2019/3#blog391476
McGoohan Nov 2020 11:32am, 29 Nov 2020 47,459 posts	0 McGoohan Yeah, I am sort of doing this. What Vrap says really. You have a smaller window for eating so eat less. I don't miss breakfast - I was eating far too much then anyway. Doesn't work if you get to your eight-hour window and cram your face with buns mind! It works for me, because it's just a binary switch. Am I in the eating window? No. Won't eat then.
Merry Christmas and Happy NewG(rrr) Dec 2020 10:45am, 1 Dec 2020 36,667 posts	0 Merry Christmas and Happy NewG(rrr) Loving V'raps gentle debunkery and subtle support! G
Kieren Dec 2020 10:25pm, 3 Dec 2020 4,065 posts	0 Kieren It makes adherence to a caloric deficit easier for some if you can look forward to a big dinner.
MH Dec 2020 10:52pm, 3 Dec 2020 783 posts	0 MH Works for me. I used to stuff some sort of breakfast down, mainly because I wasn't sure I'd get to eat any sort of lunch and would often work late. Also, to some degree it was because I had this 'you must eat breakfast' thing ingrained in my brain. I stopped when I just realised that I didn't want to eat at that time, and my digestion just preferred not eating until around 12.30 (I will add that I changed career as well). The 16:8 thing then became a thing so I could just ward off those 'ooh you must eat breakfast' with the 'I'm doing 16:8' and I was totally on trend! I did drop a kilo or two, and it's stayed off. Some are rigid about not having any tea or coffee with milk in the 'fasting' time. I'm not and I will drink a cup of both during the 'fasting' time and it makes no difference to me (I guess it might if I was multiple lattes though). However, on the whole, I agree with Vrap, it's mainly a way of eating less - although previously I was eating early in the morning (sometimes v. early) mostly skipping lunch and then eating in the evening as I've never been a '3 meals a day' person - now I eat just after midday or a bit later and then have an evening meal. Probably not much difference in actual food intake but less time for the digestion to be turning over (?) - not suggesting any science in that, btw, I just do it because it works for me.