16/8

Sarahmob simply adjust your eight hours eating window that day to fit in an evening meal out. It's a very flexible scheme, I think that's the beauty of it, you're in control.

Sarahmob , hi, just go out for your meal. I have eaten out whilst doing this I just start maybe eating earlier. Or if it’s evening go and enjoy the meal. When you get home then start your fast as normal (if you are fasting from evening) . It may mean you have a day where you aren’t fasting as long as you would normally, but hey it’s your enjoyment. It’s not ‘cheating’ it’s a short fast and you just adjust and get back into step the next day, easy. Have a lovely meal. ?

Thank you for your advice ?

I sort of do this but it sounds as though I am 'dirty fasting' - I don't eat for most of the day, as it makes me feel sick, I just drink, but I drink coffee with sweeteners and milk, so presumably that is a no, no?

Could I just have a black coffee with sweeteners? Or is it water only? I hate plain water, lol!

You’ve got me revved up to start this again. I didn’t mind doing this last time but I didn’t lose very much weight. Now I find out why! I have a cup of tea when I get up and at 10 pm before bed. I have milk and a little sugar ! So that’s dirty fasting, is it? And it doesn’t work? I’ll wait for the morning one but just to have water at night, ugh!

I think another aid for me was my snacking practice. Never a whole meal other than when socialising. Little and often throughout my 8 hours. Never felt hungry once. Bingo.

The thing with low calorie drinks or sweeteners is that they make the body think that energy is coming. ??Then it doesn’t ?? . This, apparently, makes the desire to eat stronger. This in turn means you will find it more difficult to resist food.

Michael Moseley and others demonstrate this by giving opposing sports teams either plain water or low calorie drinks at half time then measure the amount of food each team consume after the match. The team that drinks water always eat less.

That’s interesting Pamela, but from what I’ve heard you can resist the temptation to eat but still not lose weight if you have sugar in drinks during the fast periods.

I wonder if the body just needs a calorie or two to stop it going into starvation mode?

I am going to try to last as long as possible during the day before eating, so that I can enjoy my pretend wine after dinner in the evening. Starting at 3.00 pm would mean I could have ‘breakfast’ then, a proper meal for dinner, and then drink my ‘wine’ until 11.00pm. It might be too difficult if I get up early, but we’ll see.

I did 16/8 a few years ago and I’m seriously contemplating doing that again as during lockdown my weight has crept up and this morning I weighed and I am 11 stone, 18 months ago I was 9 1/2 stone so I need to do something. One of my biggest problems as I have a lot of all milk coffee which I know I am going to have to stop. Also I work four afternoons a week 2 pm till 8 pm so as I don’t eat in the mornings my main meal does seem to be about 9 o’clock at night but that cannot be helped with my work pattern...

I stopped it on lockdown as I really enjoy breakfast and life was hard enough without the little things like a bit of toast in the morning. I do plan to go back to 16:8 after our forthcoming (I hope!) mini break.
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Just realised is green tea a no no I have been having it when I get up.??

I stopped in lockdown too with the usual result! Recently I started having Huel. It's not a weight loss thing it's more for busy people who don't have time to prepare and eat a meal properly but has all the vitamins and nutrients needed. I replace 2 meals a day. It works well for me anyway. No complaints and I've lost 4 ins round my waist. I don't weigh myself.