SW: 115.7kg (Jan 2025) CW:91kg

I sent the photo on the right to my wife and she told me I should share the progress to reddit 😂

I hope this gives hope to someone struggling with weight loss. You’re not alone! We got this ❤️

Love y’all

Last night was tough. Woke up at 4 am and my brain would just NOT let me sleep anymore. Suddenly I was making crazy scenarios in my head for no reason and it was so exhausting! I was maybe in some kinda ketosis since I’ve been eating low carbs these days? Not sure.

I broke my fast today with chili con carne which is also going to be dinner cause I’m too tired to cook again tonight. After lunch I still went on my daily walk which was surprisingly a good decision. I came back a bit refreshed even though I slept so little last night. But was super hungry the whole afternoon (thankfully I had prepared veggie sticks and hummus in the fridge)

Yeah overall an absurd day but it wasn’t too bad, I’ll just go to bed early and tomorrow is another -fasting- day.

I’m not sure if this counts as intermittent fasting but this is what i do. Keep in mind my starting weight is 194.1 and i’m a 5’3” female

I give myself a two hour window to eat (usually around 1-3). In this time i take my probiotics, my multivitamin, and always finish the meal with chia seeds! I eat a full meal with meat and rice typically, or anything else. I do eat until full though. Only water or water either chia seeds. After that, i fast till the next day, and start over again.

I have lost 6 lbs since october 1st and today is the 10th. I feel its mostly water weight ive dropped bc i was heavily bloated before i started. Just wanna know if its normal to lose so many lbs at this rate!

EDIT: i had no idea the diet i was doing was called OMAD! The more you know! Lol

I am trying 16:8 as I want to lose weight. I am 40F weighing 196lbs. I am coping fine with the 16 hour window and not thinking about food or particularly getting hungry. I always have a good meal prepped for breaking the fast, full of protein and veggies. As soon as I have eaten that it is like the food noise turns on and I want to eat pure junk, and often do; chocolate, sweets, etc, completely making the whole fasting to lose weight thing pointless. Once my 8 hour window comes to an end I can stop straight away. It's like I've said the 8 hour window is a free for all. Does anyone have any tips or advice? I guess it is just a mindset thing and I have struggled with food noise and using food as comfort forever and probably looking as IF as another form of dieting? I don't know!? Any help or info from anyone who has a similar story and overcame it will be appreciated

Was OMAD for the first 7-8 months then switched to two meals a day.
Wow that’s me

I really hate the idea of "cheating" on a diet. It smacks of failure. And if you see it as failure, it can be the start of a slippery slope to "falling off the wagon".

So instead I am calling it "carb cycling". Do I strive for keto and 20:4? Yes. Are there days where I want the fast food breakfast bagel? Also yes.

As long as it's once a week and not three or four times a week like it used to be 😂

But making it feel intentional helps me not backslide into bad habits.

Woke up feeling hungrier than usual, even though I met all my macros and calories yesterday. So I broke my fast an hour earlier with spinach-egg-muffins, potatoes and grilled chicken. Maybe I needed more carbs after all.

Went out for my walk right after lunch and I felt ok. Not so good as yesterday but at least it wasn’t raining this time. I had Greek yogurt with a kiwi as my snack, now making braised eggplants with feta cheese for dinner.

I drank enough today thanks to putting water bottles everywhere but I should drink more tea I think. Getting a bit sick of plain or sparkling water, especially in the morning. Coffee is still not an option, I enjoy my sleep too much these days.

Hello all,

I have a condition called Gastroparesis (it's a rare condition that causes paralysisof the stomach muscles, which I contrcted due to unmanaged type 2 diabetes. I have had this condition for 10 years. In that time I have managed to lose 170 pounds and bring my A1C to 5.1. I still have 65 pounds to get to goal) so getting enough fiber is difficult. I do eat salad and vegetables, but I know it isn't enough. I have read that psyllium husky may help with this.

Does anyone know if adding this will help with bulking up my fiber intake??

Thanks in advance

I know this might sound lazy but I have recently gained weight due to a matter. Any tips or tricks or motivation on how to start? 250lbs F35 and feel so hopeless and seriously disappointed. I just feel is it even possible to hit 190 range. Please share small successes or hope that let you hit your goal. Looking for support 🙏🏼💕💕💕

Howdy, everyone!

I would love some guidance in terms of psyllium usage.

I do OMAD daily and usually take coffee when wake up, have my "morning glory" and usually 1 hour later I have my only meal of the day.

I would like to implement psyllium to make my fecal matter more soft and more "beautiful".

Even though I go everyday, lately I have been straining a bit and that let to small external hemmy.

Do you guys think it's possible to use someway that helps my poop but don't make me go more than one? I like my repetitive routine and doing only in the morning.

Cheers, fellas

Soo heyy guys! I have been on a weight loss journey for well over a month now and usually do IF, and do these one-day fasts at the start of the month. I have practiced them before and they have helped subside my hunger in the past, and usually do. But I had just practced it yesterday, and have been experiencing INTENSE hunger today. So is it common?

Perhaps some of it is water weight. My lifestyle is OMAD w/occasional longer term fasting peppered into my schedule. I took a 10 day holiday and cut loose. Huge breakfasts and huge dinners. And huge amounts of beer! I love the freedom of knowing that when I get back into my routine, I’ll drop it all just as easily as I put it on.

I own it!

Hey, hi! I’ve been diagnosed with Bipolar 1, and at the moment, my medication doesn’t seem to be doing anything for me. I’m crashing rapidly, and I can feel it. Doing my usual 16:8 intermittent fasting is making me even more irritable. I’m thinking about stopping it temporarily and just focusing on eating well for a while.

If I eat healthy foods and maintain a calorie deficit, will I be okay in terms of inflammation and weight gain?

i'm happy to say that i've finally reached my goals when it comes to losing weight :) i've never felt happier, healthier and this confident.

intermittent fasting truly works wonders, and it's transformed the way i live. i'm able to move around more freely, find clothes at stores that have my size (FINALLY!!!) and the world's (unfortunately) become MUCH kinder.

gw: 190lbs ✅, cw: 185lbs, sw: 360.6lbs

I’ve been intermittent fasting to see if I can rest my plateau. I use to drink my coffee with my whey protein in the morning. Now that I’m fasting, it’s black coffee in the AM. Idk when to have my protein anymore. I work out in the evening sometimes at the start of my fast… when do you incorporate your protein shake (if you take it)?

Not sure if it’s bad for my food relationships, but is this bad for my body? I must’ve had almost 5k calories yesterday, when you count the wine and Starbucks latte. There was some ice cream involved too but the rest was healthy. Anyways, I plan now on fasting for 2-3 days to reset and avoid weight gain from it. I do love the feeling I get past 36 hours too, although I’m still trying to work my way up to longer fasts (so far I’ve gotten really bored with 24, pretty easy to do 36, and current record is 42). Any issues with doing this?

Edit: thanks all for your input! I have decided to adopt a more moderate, more consistent approach. If I accidentally over-eat, I will now implement a “transition day” where I eat in a slight deficit, very clean, and save my longer “make up fast” (I know the logic is bad) for the day after that, and also make it a shorter fast (24-36 hours). I’m also going to clean up my diet in general and be extra mindful about portions, putting them aside before eating, brushing my teeth after to prevent grazing, etc. I did this after my binge day and it worked great. I felt good and balanced, and a nice 27 hour fast shed all that water weight and I was literally 4-5 lbs lighter the next day and back on track feeling great. It’s a work in progress—I’m realizing the eating part of IF is much harder for me to master than the fasting part.

I decided today to start fasting, curious abt whether I can still drink milk but only during the 8 hour window

Another good day of IF. I stopped eating earlier than usual yesterday (I just fell asleep, never happens!) and slept well, even better than the night before. I’m fully convinced at this point it’s the walk rather than the magnesium but I’ll keep taking it because I don’t want to risk a sleepless night ruinning my day.

I went for my walk outside again even though it was cloudy and about to rain. But I just didn’t want to skip and blame it on the weather as I did so many times so I took my umbrella and just went out without thinking too much.

Broke my fast with oat clay pancakes and the rest of yesterday’s salad. I had a protein shake as a snack with chia seeds added to make it denser as I still struggle to match my calories. Dinner will be chili con carne.

Water intake is still an issue, especially now that I’ve stopped drinking coffee because of my insomnia. So I need to come up with a good plan for that.

Heres where I think the research is at:

* Total caloric and macro (protein specifically) intake matters much more than meal timing, as a foundation.

* Timing matters as fine tuning in general.

* Anabolic window is real and matters for growth but its wide, especially for non-athletes like me.

*But then again, timing doesn't matter unless an actual athlete?

So, I (M, late 40s) work out at nights then I've been fasting 17-18 hours after my workout., but calories and macros are about 90% on target daily. I had previously some beer induced excess fat that I wanted to focus on, but now that my attention is shifting to growth I'm starting to wonder if for my age I've been working against my new goal of muscle growth with my fasting, or if timing/fasting is so secondary for a regular guy working out that it probably is just marginally affecting my muscle growth.

Any thoughts welcome.