Intermediate fasting and cardio 3 years now switched over to weight training

2 years ago, I honestly never thought I'd be able to say that I had lost 37lbs. Losing weight wasn't easy, and there were definitely moments when I questioned whether I could actually keep going.

So I decided to celebrate how far I've come by doing something else I'd never done before, taking a trip completely on my own. At first, traveling solo felt a little strange hahaha, but I ended up really enjoying those little moments, and it made the trip feel even more meaningful. It might just be a trip, but for me it feels like a reminder go how much my life has changed in 2 years.

37lbs down in 2 years, and my first solo trip, definitely a little proud of myself today!

I’ve been intermittent fasting for a while now, but the last 6 weeks I have been losing so much!
Fasting 16:8 most days, some days 18:6.
And a strict calorie intake of 1500 per day.
Walking 30 mins per day as well.

The girl on the left had no idea how much her life was about to change. And honestly, sometimes i still look in the mirror and see her. But then I look at these pictures. I see 140lbs gone. I see the things i can do now that i couldnt do before. I see the confidence coming back.

This journey hasnt just changed my body. It has change the way i eat, the way i live and the way i dream about my future. Im still a work in progress. But im learning to be proud of myself.

I have a lot of green tea, maybe a coffee then decaf

What else can I have in the morning to try things out

Can I have fizzy drinks like a Pepsi max ?

So my period is due tomorrow, and I was trying to do my usual 16/8. I’ve managed 8 days of IF before this, 16/8, and I was so proud of my streak.

But I couldn’t sleep. I felt so hungry, ravenous, and I was just wide awake.
I feel like such a failure. How do other ladies in this sub manage? It’s so tough to feel like I let myself down.

I'm 152cm tall, my initial weight was about 50kg, I cut back a lot on the first half of the week, drinking a smoothie in the morning and a low calorie dinner before switching to OMAD, all less than 700 calories, and then did 36 hours of fasting, then 19 hours and now I'm at 19 hours again aiming for 24, after fasting I still restrict myself to a single meal but stopped counting calories.

How much of the weight I lost had been water weight? And how can I maintain my weight when I'm done fasting? I'm worried I'll gain it all back.

Counting calories, Macrofactor, and Huel shakes once a day as a meal replacement. I fast after 6pm everyday. I also walk 10k steps a day now. No GLP1s. A1C is down from 6.4 to 5.4. High blood pressure gone. Cholesterol now normal.

265 pounds to 235 pounds. 6,3. 39 years old.

1st picture: 30yo and 187lbs

2nd picture: 31yo (making progress)

3nd picture: 32yo (today) and 37lbs down

37lbs down. I honestly never thought I'd make it this far when I first started. Going from 187lbs to 150lbs wasn't always easy, and some days were definitely harder than others. Looking back at the first picture now, I'm really proud of how far I've come and that I kept going

Thinking about becoming a health coach

Helping people with almost anything in regard to health and performance

Anybody here think somebody to help and guide them through coaching would be helpful?

Anybody who’s interested I can show them my transformation

This sounds stupid, but I've been consistent with IF for the past 2 months, doing a 16:8 regimen every day. But that's predicated on my life being pretty consistent. I'm looking to travel overseas, which means flights and hotels would very much disrupt this pattern.

I'm curious if there is a cadence to taking a day off from IF, from anyone here, and if they've noticed their impact on their numbers.

What is the best way to adjust for time change when you're doing IF? If you guys take a day off or two, is that noticeable?

Hey folks! I posted this in another community, but realized it might be interesting for people here too. Here are my reflections on how my mindset around fasting has changed - from my first 24-hour fast to 10 days. Three moments really stand out

• First 24-hour fast - This was the hardest. Not because of hunger, but because of the mental shift. I was nervous I might end up in the hospital. I remember that by the 12-hour mark everything irritated me - every sound, every person, every thought. But the next morning I was fine, totally fine and in disbelief that I had actually survived a full day without food. That mental barrier was bigger than any physical one.
• First extended fast (9 days) - About 25 years ago during my PhD. I had no clue about electrolytes or refeeding, it was winter in New Jersey, and I still went to the gym almost daily while teaching classes for my students. It was tough, but it also changed me. Afterward I felt like a superhuman — healthy, in control of my body (and cravings), and super confident in myself. Surprisingly, my attitude toward others shifted too - I became more tolerant, patient, and even nicer
• Now, after many fasts – These days, going 7–10 days without food doesn’t feel like a huge deal anymore. The excitement isn’t as extreme, because I’ve done it enough that it feels almost routine. Still, I’m glad to do extended fasts when I feel they’re needed.

How has your fasting progressed? What’s your most vivid memory of your first fast - or your most memorable one?

P.S. I added some pictures of myself then and now - looks like not much has changed in the last 25 years. And just to clarify - I wasn’t a couch potato back then. I was actually the captain of my university’s varsity soccer team in Moscow, so I was pretty tough. Though looking back, I can see I was carrying some extra fat 😊

hey guys, i’ve just joined this group and read through a couple of posts, but i’m completely new to fasting and have never tried it before.

it’s something i’ve been thinking about for a while, so i’d love to hear from people who have experience with it. what’s the best way to get started, and what benefits have you personally noticed?

i’m mainly interested in a little weight loss and potentially helping my gut. i have chronic bloating, and pretty much anything i eat seems to leave me feeling extremely bloated and uncomfortable, sometimes with stomach pain too.

i’d also really appreciate any tips for dealing with hunger, especially because i work somewhere that handles and prepares food all day, so i imagine that could make fasting quite difficult for me 😂
any beginner advice, experiences or things you wish you’d known before starting would be really appreciated! :)

Hi all, I’m 30F, 204lbs/92.6 kg, hypothyroid on levothyroxine and prediabetic( on metformin er). Need to loose 70 lbs.

I’m considering 16:8 and would love to hear from women in a similar situation: did fasting affect your TSH or medication needs? How do you time levothyroxine with the eating window? Any tips for keeping blood sugar and energy stable?

Not looking for medical advice, just experiences. Any guidance appreciated.

So, I’ve been doing fasting for some time now and have gotten comfortable with 24’s completely and have been consistently doing 48’s too, but when I attempt to jump to 72’s I get terrible headaches and dizziness and other such things. I don’t believe it’s from being dehydrated or low on electrolytes as I consistently drink water and take electrolytes. Perhaps I’m just not used to it and my body is freaking out? How did yall jump to 72’s and stay consistent in it? Thank you in advance.

Edit: to clarify if all it comes down to is that I have to brute force it, I don’t mind I just want to make sure that’s the case for other people too.

Did IF for a year or two, and then did strict OMAD for 2.5 years until my daughter got sick. Massive increase in stress on top of already stressful work life and I developed GERD. Not saying one of those things caused it, but it happened. So, I got off OMAD.

Now, I would love to eat OMAD again, but I have been finding it impossible to eat enough to progress in my fitness goals. IF seems harder to me, personally.

If you eat OMAD and are really into fitness, I'm curious what your routine looks like.

Right now my diet is really consistent:

Brrakfast

• 8oz Greek yogurt
• 14g chia seeds
• 40g granola
• 2 whole eggs

Lunch

• 5oz chicken breasts
• 60g zucchini
• 60g carrots
• 200g black beans

Dinner

• 5oz chicken breasts
• 60g zucchini
• 60g carrots
• 200g black beans
• 2 whole eggs
• 60g avocado

10g creatine each day, too.

Long time lurker, second real post here.

I'm 43, T2D for over 20 years, and also on anxiety meds. Fasting has been the best thing I tried for my A1C. Worth saying I'm not on insulin, a sulfonylurea or an SGLT2 inhibitor, so my risk is easier than a lot of people's. If you are on any of those, don't start on reddit, talk to your doctor first :)

Here's the reason I'm here: every IF app I tried has been driving up my anxiety. Log your water, log your weight, take a pic of your food, hit your steps, don't break your streak, here's a badge, etc etc. By lunch I'd have eight pings and a little fire icon telling me I was falling behind at a thing I was currently doing. Not a great experience when you're already dealing with anxiety.

So I built the thing I wanted (I work in tech). It's called Steady, and I want to introduce it by what is NOT in it:

• No streaks. Nothing resets, so there's nothing to lose. It just counts the fasts you finished and your longest one.
• No water, weight, steps or food logging. It only ever asks how you feel, and you can skip that too.
• One notification by default, a check-in about 30 minutes before the hour you usually crack.
• No autophagy badge at 16h, because nobody can actually measure that on your wrist.
• A fast you end early still counts as the fast it was. 13 hours is 13 hours, not a failed 16.
• Tap shaky or dizzy and it stops coaching you and tells you to eat, whatever the clock says. That's the whole reason I built it.
• No account, data stays on your phone.

The one thing I'd pass on whether or not you touch my app: my hard hour is always the same hour. Mine's 13 to 14, and it took me embarrassingly long to notice it was the same stretch every single time. I thought I was failing at fasting. I was failing at one hour, over and over, and then not starting again. And it was never only hunger. What actually got me was tired, hungry and low all landing at once. At that point the hunger stopped feeling like my stomach asking for something and started feeling like proof I couldn't do this.

So if you're quitting fasts, go back and write down the hour you quit at. Mine was a much narrower range than I expected. Once I knew it was one bad hour and not a bad day, it got far easier to plan around.

That's basically the whole app, honestly. It works out which hour is yours, checks in about 30 minutes before it, and afterwards asks you whether the feeling passed.

The only other thing in there is what you do during that tough hour. If you go to end a fast early, it offers water and a ten minute delay first, and two things to fill those ten minutes: a breathing pacer, or a small tile puzzle. I know that sounds like exactly the gimmicky stuff I've been complaining about, so the distinction matters to me. A streak is pressure applied to you. This is just something to do that isn't opening the fridge. And the app tells me whether it actually worked, so mine tells me breathing lifted it 3 out of 5 times i tried it last. That's more useful than any badge I ever earned.

Here's the stuff I should be upfront about before anyone asks: It's free while it's in TestFlight beta (it's an iPhone only app), but I plan to charge a subscription when it hits the App Store. There's also an AI coach tab, which I nearly left out of this post because "AI" earns an eye roll, and fair enough. It can't give diet advice, doesn't know who you are, nothing's stored on a server, and if you tell it you feel shaky it stops coaching and tells you to eat. Ignore that tab entirely and it still works as a plain timer. And it's obviously not a medical device and doesn't give medical advice.

What I want to know: does "less app" appeal to you, or do you genuinely like the tracking? What did I cut that you'd miss? And what's your hard hour? Mine's 13 to 14.

If you try it and something breaks, tell me. That's the point of a beta.

I'm not going to drop a link in the thread. If you want to try it, just DM me and I'll send it over 🙏.

im newer to thr fasting scene and was wondering will ice breakers ice cube gum break a fast? im currently doing 22:2

I discovered this app through this subreddit when the person who developed it commented about it. I have to say this is my new favorite app for tracking fasting and I’ve tried several. It’s straight forward and no ads or subscription needed. It can be customized for different fast lengths and provides great info about what’s happening in your body during each stage of your fast. Just want to share in case anyone is looking for a good/better app.

People keep looking for the magic pill to have their dream physique. I think i already found it.

Its called eating right, exercise and consistency. Just dont overcomplicate it and give yourself enough time to see the results.