The FastDay Forum

When I first heard about IF, I found the window version and tried that, pre-5:2. At that time, it didn't work for me; I just obsessed about eating and crammed as much food as I could in my face during the window: not the optimum result.

But I find that most days, I'm doing a bit of a window anyway; I seldom eat breakfast anymore, and often don't eat (we're talking normal days here) till mid-afternoon. May I ask, how many calories "breaks" the fast/begins the window? Five? Ten? Fifty? Do some of you have tea or coffee with milk during your non-eating time?

Even though they've debunked the whole "eating at night causes weight gain," and that the usual association is caused by what most people tend to snack on, I probably still eat too late. As a night owl (cannot sleep before midnight; when I wasn't working, my "normal" bedtime was about 4am), I don't really want dinner till 9 or 10pm, sometimes even later.

So, how do y'all reconcile an eating window with eating when hungry, if you aren't hungry during the window, but may/will be later? I am trying NOT to eat "prospectively" (in anticipation of hunger) anymore...

When I first heard about IF, I found the window version and tried that, pre-5:2. At that time, it didn't work for me; I just obsessed about eating and crammed as much food as I could in my face during the window: not the optimum result.

But I find that most days, I'm doing a bit of a window anyway; I seldom eat breakfast anymore, and often don't eat (we're talking normal days here) till mid-afternoon. May I ask, how many calories "breaks" the fast/begins the window? Five? Ten? Fifty? Do some of you have tea or coffee with milk during your non-eating time?

Even though they've debunked the whole "eating at night causes weight gain," and that the usual association is caused by what most people tend to snack on, I probably still eat too late. As a night owl (cannot sleep before midnight; when I wasn't working, my "normal" bedtime was about 4am), I don't really want dinner till 9 or 10pm, sometimes even later.

So, how do y'all reconcile an eating window with eating when hungry, if you aren't hungry during the window, but may/will be later? I am trying NOT to eat "prospectively" (in anticipation of hunger) anymore...

All I can say to you is ,,,Yes, yes Yes......I'm a night eater, I am waiting till hungry and well Yes again.....I'm not going to force it,,,,If I'm not hungry, I'm not going to force food into my window. welcome aboard!

[janeg]

Putting my peever in here for the next two weeks.
Return home today and then we'll be meeting people, househunting, being of no fixed abode and then doing an arena tour for work. It's damage limitation...

Good morning @ferretgal breaking your fast is not so much about how many calories you have, a splash of milk in tea or coffee for instance seems to do no harm although I don't do that myself but a small amount of protein, i.e. a little piece of cheese or portion of cold meat, I understand, does not take you out of fat burning and this is what I aim for. My window is fairly flexible, but as a rule I prefer to eat between 2 and 5 for most of my food and then perhaps a small snack, around 7 ish. I try to keep my window as short as possible because I enjoy having a longer fast for health reasons. It matters not what times you choose to eat within, as long as you fast consistently for at least 14-16 hours then you should get the benefits. One thing to remember about 'eating windows' is that we all do it, yes, every single one of us eats within a window whether we realise, or want, it or not. Think about it, no one can eat nonstop for 24 hours every day and night, even if you only stop for a few hours to sleep then you have eaten within a window, if you like. Stop eating at midnight and resume again at 8 a.m. Then you will have a 16 hour window, admittedly with few or any benefits from either a health or weight perspective, if that makes sense. If you can accept that you already do this then all you have to do is modify your times et violá, easy or what? Hope this helps you get your head round things and relax into it.

Ballerina x

So happy to have made it 18 hours. So I did my 18/6 day and hope to keep this up today. I dropped 2 pounds I had recently gained.

Question about posting.


When I want to address someone such as @righton, How do you all do it so it shows up in blue.

Hi @Righton if you open the 'post a reply' box, then scroll up and you will find 'tag' in one of the blue boxes on the second line, second in from the left, press on that and it should look like this....[tag][tag] if you position your cursor in between the 2 tag boxes then include the name of who you are tagging it should then look like this.......[tag]name[tag] then move your cursor again to the right of the second tag box and just type your message, hope you can understand all this and it works, good luck

Ballerina x

@Ballerina,
Thanks,
I'm checking it out right now....

Putting my peever in here for the next two weeks.
Return home today and then we'll be meeting people, househunting, being of no fixed abode and then doing an arena tour for work. It's damage limitation...

What's a Peever?

Putting my peever in here for the next two weeks.
Return home today and then we'll be meeting people, househunting, being of no fixed abode and then doing an arena tour for work. It's damage limitation...

What's a Peever?

I must admit, I thought the same thing but what is embarrassing for me is that, like Janeg. I also come from Glasgow,.......oops. Sorry cannot help you, will have to wait for an explanation

Ballerina x

@righton
@Ballerina

An internet search tells me that a Peever is from the Scottish: A stone used in hopscotch.

Interesting!

@righton
@Ballerina

An internet search tells me that a Peever is from the Scottish: A stone used in hopscotch.

Interesting!

Well that does make sense. So I'm putting my Peever in here too.

[carorees]

How are all you eating window people doing? Enjoying the view from your windows?

I'm coming up to having been using this way of eating for 2 years and am still enjoying it. Although I do sometimes feel hungry first thing in the morning and sometimes in the evening, my experience with fasting reassures me that nothing bad will happen if I feel hungry and it will soon pass. I probably do 17:7 most days but often have a 19:5 day too.

I'm just getting my head together to get started with the 19:5 plan. Today is day one! I have tried before, but never gave it a proper go. This time I will spend the summer getting it right!

Good luck @lori

I am really excited as Dr Bert Herring, the originator of the Fast-5 way of eating back in 2005 has just published a new book called "AC: The Power of Appetite Correction". I have downloaded it from Amazon, but haven't had time to read it yet, what with the jogging and my window just having opened. Read it this evening.