I'm jumping in on the IF with the 20 hour fast and 4 hour eating window. I have been doing it for 2 years and three months and can say I have lost 76 pounds. My sense of smell has enhanced. I have had a cyst in my right breast and 3 cysts on my ovaries disappear in a 2 year time period. It also has helped with getting rid of my sweet tooth. I don't eat anything that does not have a high nutritional value. I'm like crazy about it now. Which is a big change from the person that was addicted to Pepsi and ice cream. LOL It is just a really easy diet to follow. Now this is only a one rat study, but I recommend it to everyone as a good way to get bad eating habits under control and a little weight loss.
Now all that being said I am playing with doing a 36 hour fast instead, because a lot of the stuff I have read about IF seems this is the best window. Still working out the logistics. I did stop eating at 7pm one day..... nothing the next and ate 7am the next morning. Well that didn't work out well. I don't really like eating in the morning now that I have been doing one evening meal for so long. So this 36 hour fast I am going to have my usual couple of cups of coffee in the morning to break my fast..... maybe something light for lunch and work up to a good dinner.
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You mean you consider a cup of coffee as breaking your fast? What about black coffee? I can't give up my coffee. I read that many drink tea on fasting days.
I could easily do 20-4. I do sort of an 18-6 now, not feeling that I need t eat until later in the day. My issue with it as a CR tool, well quite frankly, I'm afraid that it just won't work. Unless you reduce calories enough to lose weight, alot of weight, to bring yourself 15-25% below what you weighed at around 20 yrs old.
Edited by FuLL meMbeR, 09 June 2008 - 03:53 AM.