Current Events > I'm having a hard time with the 20/4 intermittent fasting thingie.

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Not because its hard to get to 20 hours, after 3 months it is quite easy.
The thing is, that my eating window is now from 2pm to 6pm.

So i break my fast at 2pm, but then by 6pm I rarely am ever hungry and I might sometimes forget, sometimes I will rmember and eat by 7pm. Sometiems like yesterday I just let it end at 3pmish and just wait for 2pm today.

but I figure if I were to do a single meal a day thingie, it would be far more difficult to eat all the necessary nutrient in a single go.

Any tips?

IIRC I saw a topic about this a couple of months ago and I participated since I started doing it on December.

orcus_snake posted...

Any tips?

Eat throughout the day like a normal human being

TheGoldenEel posted...

Eat throughout the day like a normal human being

Then I would lose the benefits.

Who the fuck does 20/4? Its usually 16/8

Plenty people, I saw an app and used to do 16/8 but I want to stay in autophagy for longer at a time and IIRC the app thingie states autophagy starts 18 on, so a 16 hour fast doesnt even scratch it.

I do roughly 19/5. I break my fast at around 1pm, and finish my second(and last) meal around 6pm.

Have you considered exercising.

orcus_snake posted...

Not because its hard to get to 20 hours, after 3 months it is quite easy.
The thing is, that my eating window is now from 2pm to 6pm.

So i break my fast at 2pm, but then by 6pm I rarely am ever hungry and I might sometimes forget, sometimes I will rmember and eat by 7pm. Sometiems like yesterday I just let it end at 3pmish and just wait for 2pm today.

but I figure if I were to do a single meal a day thingie, it would be far more difficult to eat all the necessary nutrient in a single go.

Any tips?

IIRC I saw a topic about this a couple of months ago and I participated since I started doing it on December.

Honestly at the point where you're at just do a OMAD diet.

I've lost 60 lbs since Labor Day with it and I have days where I eat more than one meal and also still go drinking 2-3 times a week. Just set and plan your meals to be at a calorie deficit when you can.

I do roughly 19/5. I break my fast at around 1pm, and finish my second(and last) meal around 6pm.

you got my schedule with an extra hour.

Have you considered exercising.

I do both.

Honestly at the point where you're at just do a OMAD diet.

I've lost 60 lbs since Labor Day with it and I have days where I eat more than one meal and also still go drinking 2-3 times a week. Just set and plan your meals to be at a calorie deficit when you can.

I do not need to lose weight tbh, I'm already 160.
As I mentioned earlier, OMAD would be vastly more difficult when taking needednutrition into account for justt one meal.

I would extend the eating window to make sure you are getting all the meals, calories, and nutrients for your diet.

There really is no benefit to intermittent fasting or OMAD besides it being a schedule/tool to help people stick to their diets. If you are missing out on meals/nutrients because your window is too short, then intermittent fasting is actually hurting you.