16:8 eating window

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Nov 2020
10:25am, 29 Nov 2020
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Hills of Death (HOD)
Anyone tried this for weight management or to drop some poundage. Sounds temping 🤔
Nov 2020
10:33am, 29 Nov 2020
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Velociraptor
Intermittently Fashionable. Works by calorie restriction and not by any magic metabolic jiggery-pokery. Likely to be harmless.
Nov 2020
10:35am, 29 Nov 2020
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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!
Nov 2020
10:36am, 29 Nov 2020
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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.
Nov 2020
11:25am, 29 Nov 2020
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Dvorak
McGoohan, and Liebling. McG has some blogs on it.
Nov 2020
11:29am, 29 Nov 2020
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Dvorak
Like this one fetcheveryone.com/blog/137/2019/3#blog391476
Nov 2020
11:32am, 29 Nov 2020
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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.
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10:45am, 1 Dec 2020
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Merry Christmas and Happy NewG(rrr)
Loving V'raps gentle debunkery and subtle support! :-) G
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Kieren
It makes adherence to a caloric deficit easier for some if you can look forward to a big dinner.
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10:52pm, 3 Dec 2020
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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.

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Anyone tried this for weight management or to drop some poundage. Sounds temping 🤔

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