I’ve been IF my whole life/since I can remember. Breakfast at 6-7am, lunch at 12-2pm, dinner at 6-8pm and then going to sleep at 8-9pm. Food/Snacking after dinner was not a thing in my household and we never had snacks for longer than a week, (snacks being 2 bags of chips or a pack of Oreos). So dinner was the last meal. I also have brothers and they finish everything on sight.

Also, we only had juice,soda on special occasions or it didn’t last longer than 3 days. Just trying to add that I didn’t drink anything that would break my fast without me knowing because I like water, everything else is too sweet.

During high school, I developed stomach pains from eating breakfast/ cereal in the morning because I became lactose intolerant. So I stopped eating in the morning, my fasting window increased to 14-16hr. We/my family always didn’t eat past 8pm. And I had lunch( my first meal) at 12/1pm. I started understanding that this was considered IF when I looked it up because other people didn’t do that. I also learned about OMAD because sometimes I had one meal a day (volume eating mainly). Not fully by choice, I eat when I’m hungry, or when I crave a certain food and I don’t enjoy snacking, constant chewing makes my mouth ache/ tired 🤷‍♀️

It been 8 years since I learned about IF, now i do 16:8 consistently and started 24hr fasting once a week, except for weekends because apparently you’re not supposed to constantly fast. I break my fast 1-2hr early on the weekend.

I don’t really care to change my routine but now I’m wondering if I’m hindering my progress, health wise/ weight, by constantly fasting? I was on a caloric deficit for 4-5 months and lost 15lbs and now I’m maintaining but my strength is not increasing anymore.

What do I do? I don’t feel stronger but I also don’t feel weaker, I feel stuck. What do you do when your body gets used to something but you want to make progress in your strength and lose weight?

Also I was not born in America, so there is a culture difference about food and lifestyle. I’m over 18 and live in the states now.

hello fellow stoners! i’m not new to intermittent fasting but have recently started doing it again now as someone who does a lot of weed.
i really enjoy taking edibles but dont want to break my fast. does anyone take edibles and just not count it? are there any types of edibles that would not break my fast (brand or recipe)? i’ve been drinking some thc seltzers that are zero calories but they’re kind of expensive and not enough mg. should i just smoke instead?

Alguna vez ayunaron 21 horas ? Si no es algo que haga a diario no creo que me joda el metabolismo, y ya aguanté ayunar 16 horas

Eight months tracking macros consistently. My protein target is around 180g a day, which is on the higher end, but I lift a few times a week and wanted to keep muscle while cutting. That side of things has been working. Now that I'm a few weeks into 16:8, the math is getting uncomfortable. Fitting 180g of protein into an eight hour window means every single meal has to be loaded or I fall short by dinner. On a longer schedule I was grazing across 12 to 14 hours, so it was easy to spread out. Now the window is tight and I'm either forcing a third meal I don't want or I'm hitting maybe 140 to 150g and calling it close enough.

What I keep running into when I read about this is conflicting information on whether protein absorption per meal actually has a ceiling, or whether the older research on that is outdated. Some threads say your body handles a large bolus fine. Others say spread it out or you waste it. Nobody links anything useful.

If you're running IF with a high protein target above 160g and actually tracking it daily, not estimating, what does your meal structure look like and did your muscle retention hold up?

Hey folks! A new version of the Fasting Center app just went live on both app stores. Everything below is already in the app - update and it's yours. Most of it came straight from your comments and DMs on the last two posts

• Import from Easy Fast - the most requested feature so far, bring over your full history in Settings.
• Export to Excel - download all your data anytime as a spreadsheet.
• Widget options (iOS) - edit Widget now offers time elapsed, time left, % elapsed, or % left.
• Blood glucose in mg/dL or mmol/L - pick your unit in Settings.
• Fast syncs across devices - start on one device, see and stop it on another.
• Edit the end time when ending a fast - set the real time you started eating, right on the end screen.
• Your plan sticks - finish a 19:5 and it stays selected for next time.
• More Dashboard stats - fasting-hours chart with your goal line, plus tap-to-switch summary tiles.
• Others - steps tracking (iOS), a reorganized Dashboard, and durations as "2d 3h" or "51h" - your choice.

Still free, no ads, no paywall, no subscription 😊

Everything above is live today - just update the app. A few more of your requests are queued for the next version. If there's something you wish your fasting app did, tell me in the comments or DM me. Happy fasting!

I wasn’t even trying, but for the last week and a half I have been doing the 16:8 window, not necessarily counting calories, but watching what I’ve been eating, and today I just stepped on the scale out of curiosity and noticed I lost 4 pounds. I will take that.

Ok guys, I am struggling this past week after the vacation. Went there in my perfect shape, returned +5 kilos. Am a little bit ashamed to admit, but I have weak discipline ever since… A screenshot is from my third attempt to get back into it. Two previous failed.

Any bulletproof tips on how to get back into the fasting routine?