16:8 diet

I find it works better for me if we have our main meal at lunchtime rather than the evening.

I'm sitting here drinking my coffee too of course you can have milk in it!! No rules re content just timing.

Just realised your supposed to have black coffee .whoops! Don't like it black though.Any ideas ?

Hi, I've been following you all for a while now, and decided to try it out starting today! .It's 4.45 am I'm sat here with just a coffee instead of my usual coffee and a digestive, I've decided as I'm up so early 10 am to 6 pm would suit me better, as I'm in bed by 8pm. Does this sound OK?

Jane, I'm the same as you! I've got a much more clearly defined waist, after doing this for 3 months now. It mostly works out at 17:7 for me. I stuck to it over the holidays, but also enjoyed the seasonal treats so I didn't feel deprived.

This feels like a very sustainable way of eating, and I find that I also naturally do a sort of mental check during the eating hours before idly popping something in my mouth between meals. Sometimes it goes on in (!) but sometimes I realise I don't need/want it. I suppose it just makes me more aware, which is good.

Thanks again Jane for sharing. It's a keeper!

I have been doing this for a month now. Not lost any weight at all (only 5 or 6 pounds to loose), but clothes definitely feel slightly looser!

Will keep on till our holiday in March, where it will be much harder to keep to it.

Still on it, I’ve not weighed myself for some time, but trousers seem to be loose. I’m trying not to eat the wrong things in the 8 hours, but as others have said winter and being indoors too much can be a food challenge!
Roll on some warmer weather and gardening exercise.

Luckily for me it is still working and I am still going down - bought a new jacket/cardi at the weekend and had to go down to a medium instead of large - lost a bit more than a stone since I started.

Am still on it, more or less, find it fairly easy to live with but, not losing a great deal of poundage, possibly eating too much during the eight hours, always eat more in the winter evenings when I have my tv backside on, roll on spring, well done Jane10 lovely to find your waist!

I started 16:8 last Monday and weighed this morning, to my surprise I seem to have lost 2 lbs! Certainly haven't been denying myself during the 8 hours. Will keep going, it suits me and doesn't feel like a diet. With the weather forecast for this week I may have to comfort eat though .........

Well it's happened again! Another bit of me has gone. I emerged briefly from my thermal vests and fleeces to find my midriff mysteriously reduced! This makes me look (almost) as though I have an actual waist! I had been thinking that nothing much was happening due to my consumption of lots of naughty comfort foods in my 8 hours.
How is everyone else doing?

www.healthline.com/nutrition/10-health-benefits-of-intermittent-fasting#section10
I noticed that the link I posted a few days ago doesn't work now. If you want to - try this one. I hope it connects.
I thought I was imagining it when I felt that my mental processes were not quite so sluggish, but it is apparently a benefit to this way of eating.
For me, the peace and calm of my digestion is worth some hunger, Talking of hunger - that sensation is reducing too.
My son-in-law's Mum - a svelte lady - says she's eaten this way all her adult life without knowing it's a particular diet. She's a good advert for it.

I bet this makes a good maintenance diet.

Now I'm back in the routine of this I am finding it so easy and I am not thinking about food all the time like most diets, the one time I am aware is looking at the clock when I feel hungry to find I only probably have an hour to go before I start my lunch at 1 which is no hardship knowing I can then eat when and what I fancy until nearly bedtime.
I am easily satisfied at 1 and wait until about 5 to eat biggest meal then a snack or smoothie about 8 and I'm done.
I'm not obsessed with weighing myself either but I know I'm not putting it on and when I do weigh I find another pound has gone, very rewarding indeed.

My bathroom scales have not had a battery for several years ??. I don't weigh myself, ever! I've been on this 16:8 diet for a month or so, with a break for Christmas and I've noticed that the waistband on my jeans is not quite as tight as it was before. It seems to be working, so I'll stick at it and report back later. Good shrinking everyone. ??

Thanks Jane10 and OldMeg

I will certainly keep on. I weigh myself as this is what I have done for years. When I stopped...this extra crept on ! I will just weigh myself at the end of the month!

Will report back in a couple of weeks

As you’ve little to lose I’d stick at it a quite bit longer. Obviously those with loads to shed will see a quite a quick loss.

There’s probably more important ‘things’ going on inside your body while it readjusts to this way of eating. I’ve been reading up about this and it would seem that this semi-starving can have positive metabolic effects.

Don't weigh yourself! Just wait. One day soon you'll suddenly find eg trousers flapping round your legs or put your hands on your hips and find they aren't where they used to be. It's sudden and random!

Not sure what I am doing wrong, but 2 weeks of doing this and I have not lost anything!

I have porridge just after noon, soup around 4pm (if in) and evening meal, No biscuits, crisps etc, eat an apple if hungry, bread only at weekends!

I will persevere until the end of the month! I just need to lose this 6lb or so that has crept on over the past 2/3 years, so I know it's not a lot to lose, but I am impatient

I'm back on it as def put on over Xmas, couldn't start until after last weekend in Ireland so have been on it for a week now, feel much better and in control, lost three pounds so far but want to stick to it before hols in march. Well done everyone!

Have lost a 1lb since Christmas must admit to still finishing off chocs etc . Only thing I have found myself feeling a bit light headed some mornings has anyone else noticed this ?

Welshwife, same for me regarding biscuits, chocolate, etc. Before, I would go to the tin and eat one choc biscuit while I waited for the kettle to boil, then wandered innocently back into the living room with my cuppa and another biscuit..... ?!
Tend to have cereal at about 11, then a light lunch at 1 - 1.30. Main meal about 5 and maybe a bit of cake or shortbread just before 7.
My knees aren’t paining me the same so hopefully it’s weight loss that’s helping (and not using my usual excuse of the weather)!

This is such a good thread now with everyone being so positive. I am still going on with this pattern of eating and I managed to continue in the main over the Christmas period when we were staying in U.K. with family. I think I was well into the pattern of eating and just found it easy to continue.
I am eating very little in the way of chocolate or biscuits etc. The other change though is that we try and eat our main meal at lunch time as much as we can. Often then I eat next to nothing in the evening.
We got back home over the weekend and today I got on the scales - but later than usual and I was fully clothed instead of just a nightie -down almost 2 lbs and I was not trying -I would have expected to remain the same or gain over Christmas.
Like others have said I am finding it difficult to eat the old portion size and even had difficulty eating a whole meal if we went out to eat. I too will carry on - maybe the new trousers I bought last year without trying them on will fit me this coming summer!!

I’m finding this way of eating really very easy. I know I’ve lost weight, though will not be weighing myself, just going by how my clothes are fitting.

Will join you all if I may. Am back on Gransnet after a few years absence, with a different username and carrying ten more pounds- being off Gransnet must be fattening