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Today is exactly 1 month since I first started doing intermittent fasting, and this morning I weighed in at 57.5. That is exactly 3 kg weight loss!

I started ount IF by doing the 16:8 fasting/feeding window, although in practice it is mostly 18:6. I have been doing it for 4 - 5 days a week, leaving weekends off IF, which coincides with my exercise rest days. There was actually a week when I did only 1 day, because I went to holiday. I like this method because I didn't need to think about calories (which I hated anyway), and yet it naturally reduced my eating portions and snacking.

What I have been doing is basically just skipped breakfast, having only water and tea until breaking my fast at lunch time (1 pm), and then I can eat "whatever I want", have dinner with the husband between 6 - 7 pm, and the fast begins again until lunch the next day. Note that "eating whatever I want" is in moderation, besides I mostly found that I couldn't eat so much anymore after 16 - 18 hours of fasting. I didn't even do a full fast until just early this week, as I wrote in the previous post.

So now I am one month into this WOE. I was sceptical in the beginning, and I started it mainly out of curiousity. But today I will say, that Intermittent Fasting works for me. I have been gaining and losing weight for 4 years now, and in fact I have never seen myself losing so much weight so quickly before.

IF really works, and I am not even counting calories or restricting any food group ! Blame my Indonesian upbringing, but I especially refuse to eliminate rice and noodle from my diet ! I do try to have incorporate a good portion of vegetables and protein in my meals though, and just be more aware of my portions. Everything in moderation, that's the mantra.

I do attribute part of this weight loss to regular exercise. For two months now I've managed to stick to 5 days per week of moderate exercises. I don't believe I would lose so much without exercise!

Moving forward, I will definitely continue with intermittent fasting. My main method will still be 16:8 daily fast, and whenever I see the need to bump it up, I will add a full fast. So a combination of 16:8 and 6:1/5:2. I am curious to see how it will progress in the coming months. I am not overweight and so I realise the weight loss will most likely become slower and slower. I'll just take it 1 kg at a time. Patience and determination is the key here.

I've been at this weight (57's kg) quite a number of times in the last 4 years, and this is usually the point where I stalled and eventually gain weight again. I hope this WOE will help me break the barrier!

I'll be updating again in the coming weeks.