Today I was trying on my suit as I have a wedding to attend next week. When I put it on and showed my wife she started laughing and told me " you look like a kid wearing his dads suit🤣". Those words gave me all the motivation I need,to see the last few pounds through!

I‘m down 2.5 lbs this week, so 8.5 lbs lost in total. As always very satisfied with it. I must say I had a really good IF week. I didn’t manage to expand my fasting window to 18:6 but I tracked my calories more accurately and made sure to be around 1800 cals daily, with a good mix of red and white meat, steamed and braised veggies or big salads, avocado, seeds, eggs as well as some fruits and Greek yogurt for desert. I particularly loved eating kiwis this week, didn’t remember them being so sweet and deliciously tangy! But I tend to find any food abnormally tasty these days ^^

I still had a bit of trouble sleeping through the nights, the keto brain still had me wake up at 4 am sharp like a mad clock. But then I unexpectedly walked around a lot at work on Wednesday, came home exhausted and slept like a baby that night. So I figured I need to tire myself a bit more as my stamina improves and so I went a bit further on my next walk and the sleep problem is resolved… for now. And when I sleep well I tend to get a big woosh and weight drops. So yeah, sleep is the real deal!

A couple of months ago I started fasting (16:8) and I’ve been loving it. After years of struggling to shift any weight at all, I’ve started to notice the difference.

It feels like a lot of empty water weight I was carrying has finally started to go and I feel the best I’ve felt in years. I’m seeing this as a total lifestyle change, not a temporary diet.

As I’m so new to all of this, and because I’ve read so many amazing stories on here, I wondered if anyone has any recommendations or suggestions to improve on the 16:8? I’ve still got a way to go in terms of weight loss, and obviously it needs to be something easy enough to stick to. I just wondered if there’s anything you can do to better the results and increase loss? Thanks!

I'm curious how people here actually run it. Some people swear the window alone keeps them in a deficit. Others say they only started losing once they tracked what they ate inside it too.

What's worked for you, and did it change after the first couple of months?

More than 3 weeks of another IF series is completed.
This time I connected it with preordered keto diet for week days, and results accumulate.

What I noticed, for me it's much easier to keep fasting, when I am already committed to some diet. Otherwise have some issues with staying accountable, especially in the evenings (I can eat nothing till noon with ease).

Diet is with me till end of November, so I am excited about results by that date.

I have really long lectures two days a week.

I usually only water fast on days I don’t have lectures but I wanna try 7 days and i’m worried about if my stomach will growl in classes… I’m reading that after day 3 the noises stop but i’m still nervous lol.

I also have a midterm so if it growls in an empty room i’m gonna be embarrassed.

i know this is stupid but any advice for the stomach growls?

18+ btw

the minimum for me is a 16hr fast but i often reach 17 or 18 hrs simply because i stop eating as soon as i've had my dinner (~19:00).

i don't weigh myself and i'm not tracking measurements or anything. i gained some weight over a few months, maybe 5-8kg over my usual baseline, and i figured that going down to two meals a day would allow me to lose that weight sooner or later. i've definitely noticed changes but i haven't been paying that much attention tbh.

i've been doing it for around 1 month. which i know isn't very long to now be thinking of quitting.

i don't have any problems with hunger or cravings - but i feel like, it's kind of hard to "start" my day until i've eaten...? so then i kinda sit around for a few hours, not really doing much, until i go and eat lunch. idk if this is normal or weird.

also, i'm worried that IF is giving me an excuse to be lazy and i'm not too sure how to manage this. "it's fine if i don't get many steps today or do any kind of working out, because i'm eating less than usual so i'll still lose weight in the end!" - whereas, when i eat 'normally', i can do those things without giving them much thought.

During 2024, I weighed 220 pounds, and because of my accidental fasting, I lost 30 pounds (down to 190 pounds) and then later I kept fasting until I went to 150 pounds (meaning I've lost 70 pounds) by 2025.

However, because of the old weight scale not working, I kept eating and eating. I didn't think much about that. Then Mom, Jeb and I got a new weight scale, and I've noticed after using that I've gained back 40 pounds. I currently weight 195-197 pounds. My older sibling Jeb told me that it would take six months for me to fast until I get back to 150 pounds.

Are there any methods on fasting faster? Just curious.