Decided to break this into its own thread.
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Originally Posted by Matata
Side note: Intermittent fasting comes with profound health benefits and everyone who can do it, should do it.
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I do 18 hour intermittent fasts, and my girlfriend who swore she "always needed to eat breakfast or she'd go insane" now does 16 hour intermittent fasts.
She's only mildly annoyed that the jeans she bought in November are loose on her now.
Effects of intermittent fasting on body composition and clinical health markers in humans.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26374764
Role of Intermittent Fasting on Improving Health and Reducing Diseases
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4257368/
Fitocracy Wiki with more journals and sources linked.
http://fitocracy.wikia.com/wiki/The_...Facts_Revealed
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Originally Posted by The Fonz
I'm intrigued by this (maybe we need another thread?). Do you & your girlfriend just not eat breakfast anymore, essentially fasting from 6pm until 12pm every day? Or is it more complicated than that?
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I found that I wasn't able to keep it to a standard "eat at 12 PM and 6 PM, don't eat until 12 PM again" because my social lifestyle simply can't account for that sort of rigidity.
Instead, I use an app, Zero - Fasting Tracker (iOS) or you can use Vora - Fasting Tracker (iOS and Android). Basically, when I'm done eating and/or drinking alcohol in the evening, I hit 'Start fasting' on the app, and don't take in anything but water for the rest of the night. I go to sleep, wake up, and don't eat until the tracker hits 18 hours.
When I wake up (between 5:30 AM and 6:30 AM typically), I go do my cardio and weight training, then shower and go to work. I only drink black coffee and water until the fasting timer hits 18 hours (or later, depends on my schedule). I tell the app I've stopped fasting, and then begins my 6 hour eating period consisting generally of two meals, unless I'm planning on doing something exceptionally decadent for dinner. Once I finish dinner and I'm not drinking anything with a caloric charge (pop, alcohol, etc.), I hit 'Start fasting' and the cycle repeats.
You can use the app to track custom fasts, standard 16 hour fast, or it can help you fast based on a 13 hour circadian rhythm. And if you care about stats and analytics, it'll do that too.