16:8 diet

I'm still doing it but just back from hols where I enjoyed delicious breakfasts.
One unpleasant side effect is that the skin from my tums is still there but the contents aren't! My skin didn't shrink back the way it used to when I was younger. It's quite interesting really. I could put clothes pegs round it! With that delightful image I bet I've put you off your next meal!!

I was wondering particularly about you Jane10 as you started it all for me! Have you lost a lot of weight and have you noticed the lower cholesterol etc?

I deliberately never weighed myself. I just go on how my clothes fit. I seem to fit smaller jeans somehow.
However, I'm having my next TKR next week so don't expect to have much/any appetite for a while afterwards. The drugs make me so sick.

I am still slogging away at it and lost over a stone but have reached a sort of plateau and am stuck a bit.
Thing is that my tum has not flattened and so my waist is not small enough! I think I must be bloating when I eat wheat etc. I am working on eating less of that and I noticed awful bloating when I ate a couple of nectarines. Any remedies?

That’s the point really. I haven’t noticed my tummy going down or my waist less but there’s funny places it’s become noticeable, like neck, back of my arms, my fat back etc. I haven’t considered wheat but my husband knows if he doesn’t eat he loses weight. I must try it when we get home but then that feels very hard work on top of 16:8!

Should read “doesn’t eat wheat or drink beer!”. B....y iPad!

I'm still on it. Have noticed that I've lost weight in different places to other diets, eg - off legs and hips, but slow to come off bust and waist. I've definitely lost weight though because I can fit into Summer clothes I haven't been able to wear for a few years. Have also noticed that my skin is creping more with the weight loss than on other diets, but that could just be age. Have been on 16:8 since last November and will carry on. It's become a way of life, but I hate the spare skin dangling from the top of my arms.
I found I had to start exercising to get over a plateau, but have been very neglectful of that recently.
I gave in to a recent urge for a bar of fruit and nut and I did so enjoy it. Perhaps it's as well you posted Luckylegs.

Re cholesterol and pre diabetes - Much improved since being on the 16:8.