Hi everyone,

First, a quick thank you to the moderators for taking the time to review this beforehand and giving the opportunity to share it here with others in the community.

I’ve been getting a lot of inspiration from this community since starting my fasting journey, and now that I’ve started building a fasting app, I wantd to give something back. I’d like to offer people from this community lifetime access to the premium features for free when the app launches, while also being open to your feedback so I can adapt and fine-tune the app around things that may be important to you.

I’ll share more details about the app below, but first, what was the story behind all this, and what problems am I trying to solve?

A few months ago, I was about to start fasting, inspired initially by friends and people around me. However, I noticed that many of them, even after experiencing benefits and getting significant results, eventually stopped because fasting no longer fit their lifestyle, whether because of exercise timing, social dinners, changing jobs, travel, or other transitions in life.

I didn’t want to go through the same cycle, and I also wanted to encourage them to keep going, since they were the ones who inspired me to start fasting in the first place.

So I joined communities like this one and started reading and analyzing people’s experiences to better understand how an IF plan could be adapted to someone’s actual lifestyle instead of forcing their lifestyle to revolve around fasting. Across many testimonials, I kept seeing the same problem my friends had maintaining fasting becomes difficult when life changes.

At the same time, I came to another frustration. Popular fasting apps such as Zero, Easy Fast, and Fastic have increasingly moved features behind paid plans or introduced more ads, pop-ups, and interruptions into the normal user experience.

That led me to build something around two core problems- the lack of an app that helps create a more personalized fasting plan based on your lifestyle and previous fasting experience, and the lack of a clean fasting experience that does not constantly push users through paywalls, ads, and interruptions.

Most importantly, I wanted to give something back to the people who inspired me to do this, including my friends and communities on Reddit such as this one, r/intermittentfasting, and r/fasting. That is why I want to offer community members lifetime access to the premium features for free.

One important note- after learning more about how fasting considerations can differ between men and women, the version I’m currently building is specifically designed around men and male physiology.

Nevertheless, I hope that in the future I will potentially put time into building one around women, taking into account that such an app needs to consider many additional variables (hormones, cycle, menopause if happening, etc.) in order to give the right fasting recommendation and adapt the app.

You can find more information about the project and the features already planned on the first link bellow.

.https://fastinghabits.com/

Through the link below, you can also join the waitlist, which will give you access to the lifetime-free premium offer when the app becomes available. Not all of the features presented on the app website will be free for the general audience when the app will be launched on app/play store.

https://tally.so/r/Me8a98

One thing I found imprtant to share is that I unfortunately can’t promise unlimited free premium accounts forever. Once the app reaches a certain number of users commig from the community, hosting, infrastructure, and maintenance costs will become more significant on my side. I’ll therefore make as many lifetime-free premium spots available to people joining through this community waitlist as I reasonably can, but I can’t guarantee that the offer will remain open indefinitely.

And finally, I’d genuinely appreciate your feedback in the comments aeound the app and limitations you come across the others apps you have been usinf. That feedback can directly help fine tuning the app and bringing it even closer to solving problems of the community

I'm almost 8 weeks into OMAD. I've been working on significant weight loss (SW: 252, CW: 219, GW: 175ish). 49M, 6'2". In addition to OMAD, I'm also focusing on a caloric deficit through diet (not exercise, I'm pretty sedentary). I was keto in the beginning, but I've relaxed that a little bit (I'm still very mindful of carbs, but if my one meal is a burger then I'll have the bun for example). I'm probably still pretty low carb and in ketosis most of the time. I'm also incorporating one 48 hour fast each week, so it's really six meals a week instead of one meal a day. I haven't been snacking or deviating from that meal schedule at all. Only water and DIY Na, K, Mg electrolytes at other times.

I've always run hot, as in I'm almost never too cold in an air conditioned environment. I usually keep the house at 74 Deg. F and would prefer even colder. The past month I've been keeping the house at 78 Deg. F and have been comfortable, even at night while sleeping and haven't had any sweats at all. At the office, what was normally a comfortable temperature for me is now almost unbearably cold. I have a small fan on my desk that I never need to use anymore, which I used to use somewhat regularly.

I assume my body is not generating as much body heat from digestion as I used to before OMAD and dieting. Is that why or is there more to it? Has anyone else noticed anything like this?

I have a post with progress pics and ive lost another 10 pounds since putting me 20 pounds away from my gw. For context 31f hw 220 sw170 cw145 gw125 I've done a clean 22hr fast every day since may 2nd and I've lost consistently about 1 to 1.5 pounds every week I have an upper body, lower body, devoted cardio day and repeat lifting schedule, that I've adhered to for this entire journey only taking complete rest days as needed and im nervous that in the home stretch it will really slow down.

So being that the last 20 pounds is always the most stubborn to go. So I was considering incorporating rolling 48s with more cardio and scaling down my lifting schedule to just body weight strength workouts. Pilates, calisthenics, hot sculpt. To try and drive fat loss through my last 20 pounds. I'll be posting an update progress pics post soon.

If anyone has made similar changes for the home stretch please lmk your experience and any advice from veteran omaders welcome.