16:8 diet

What is it ok to drink during the 16 hour fast? Can I drink my English Breakfast with milk but not sugar! I'm fine re no food for 16 hours but struggle without cups of tea!

Oh, and IBS seems to have gone!

I do Sunlover
I've been doing 16:8alongside LCHF for 3 months and have lost 21 lbs. I'm lighter now than I have been for years!
It's easy and as a bonus I have lost my sweet tooth ?

Can you have milk in your tea during the 16 hr fast?

Here I am after a couple of busy days, but still persevering.

No problems so far. I wee a lot anyway as I drink a lot of fluid, particularly in the mornings.

I’ve lot 1lb, but not taking any notice of that will see as jane says how I feel in say three weeks time. I think that this is my 5th day.

Today is porridge and fruit at 9am.
Crab bisque (M&S) with a slice of dried bread at 1pm and chilli and rice at 5pm.

I’ve given up on the weightwatchers as they were allowing me far too many points. I think my metabolism must be very slow.

3 days really isn't long enough. A pound can come and go for all sorts of reasons. It was almost 3 weeks before I noticed a difference. I resolutely refuse to be a slave to the weighting machine. The jeans test is best for me. However, it was the realisation that I was just plain smaller round the waist and hips that first amazed me enough to do my first post on this. That and DHs clothes now hanging on him!

I lost 1lb after 3 days. Today it’s back on!!
I’ve been doing the 16:8 religiously and not eating a huge amount in the 8 period.
I’ll stick with it for a bit longer and see. Then it’s back to 5:2, if there’s no improvement.

I've lost a couple of pounds and I'm def sleeping well cos not overfill and so don't feel as bloated, in that place where you first start a diet and you can feel a bit of loss and generally feel more in control rather than the 'I'll start tomorrow feeling' of mild despair, so that's a nice feeling. I've done too many diets to know how it works though but I do feel hopeful as this is so easy, fingers crossed!

Interesting to see if any other benefits. How about acid reflux? Bloating? Indigestion? Insomnia? Arthritis? etc....

Any improvements on these or other complaints which might be triggered by diet?

If it was in your 8 hours you'll be OK! Don't panic. Slow but sure.

I think I may have messed up a bit this afternoon. I managed the 16 hours without a problem but then all these people came round to help consume all the goodies Messrs Marks and Spencer had provided, and I joined them. DiL and DS had made me an enormous chocolate birthday cake and I partook and SiL kept filling my glass when I wasn’t looking and I couldn’t waste it. I fear I may be undone.

Yes it's weird, I wish I had done this years ago, I feel my digestion is much healthier and I'm eating food for the right reasons now rather than just being a pig and I'm not stressing about what I eat for the first time in years, long may it last, scales tomo!

I had a slice of fruit loaf toast at 12, my breakfast! Then nothing until 4pm, a cup of mint tea and a mince pie.
At half past 6 I had two fajitas and a glass of wine.
I feel really full now. I think your stomach shrinks and expects less.

Lunch at 1.30 which was a bit late but was at airport, had two pieces of toast with sardines and half a melon then veggie lasagne about hour ago, I feel stuffed which is good, have drunk lots of water and will have some more fruit before my cutoff time. Really don't feel like gorging so it can only be a good thing.

Thanks all. I had a lovely day. I'm still going strong with this 'diet'. However, I do think I'm pushing it. Its sort of given me the green light to eat all sorts of things I know I shouldn't. That being said a layer of me round the middle seems to have evaporated. Lots more to go though. Onwards!

Thank you Jane for posting on this diet. I have been 16:8ing since Monday and am in the groove. It's a relief to feel hungry! I can be such a pig. Have tried various diets in the past including hypnosis and lost weight but put it all back on.
This diet feels like a life style I could settle into. I don't feel so restricted on the foods I can eat.
I have noticed the weeing!
I feel really well.
I hope you had a happy birthday Jane10.

Happy birthday Jane10!

(Forgot today was Thursday and your birthday! Losing the plot.)

Happy Birthday Jane. Hope you’re having a great day

God! I take a diuretic too for my BP. Wee constantly, ?

If you haven't noticed it Marmight you soon will.

Not noticed the weeing. Am I doing something wrong?
I notice the weeing when I cut out carbs, especially bread.

Happy birthday Jane10 - sorry, but I have to break the fast to raise a glass of to you and say cheers!

Happy birthday Jane ?
I'm not having a good day been out for lunch but still hungry so just had some beef stew still in 8hrs but too much food must have hungry head on ?

I haven't weighed myself - going to try to do that only once a week - but don't find the 16:8 difficult so really hoping it works. I can't walk far because of problems with one of my feet so I'm really grateful for the advice about other types of exercise.