I’ve lost 10# and Beau has lost #20. Right now, we’re kind of stuck where we’re at. Our ‘fast’ starts at 6pm and we don’t eat again until Noon the next day, so we go 18 hours without food, but can drink water or have a hot tea before bed and coffee in the morning hours. SOMETIMES we have a ‘Movie & Popcorn Night’ but a lot of that gets tossed to the dog; our Beagle’s record is 9 catches in a row, LOL! I air pop it then use a LITTLE EVOO on it and some Seasoned Salt.
At Noon we either have a brunch-style breakfast, or a veggie & cheese wrap and soup. Supper is usually a lean meat, veggies (steamed or roasted) and a salad. Neither of us are ever going to be ‘skinny’ again; we’ve accepted that, but our BP is good, bloodwork always comes back clean and neither of us have any major health issues and just a little arthritis here and there. We are 64 and 63.
Here’s the ‘skinny’ on fasting:
“’Intermittent fasting contrasts with the normal eating pattern for most Americans, who eat throughout their waking hours,’ Mattson says. ‘If someone is eating three meals a day, plus snacks, and they’re not exercising, then every time they eat, they’re running on those calories and not burning their fat stores.’”
Intermittent fasting works by prolonging the period when your body has burned through the calories consumed during your last meal and begins burning fat.
Sounds like you guys are eating really healthy, on top of the fasting.
Thanks for the info, I’ll check it out! It might be hard because I’ll be doing it by myself, and hubby will still expect his normal meals.
Vary the time of day when you fast, and vary the feeding windows. The body gets used to it if you do the same time every day, and you’ll plateau.