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I decided it doesn’t matter if it jacks up my hormones and makes my ovaries shrink. Who needs em? I’d rather get back to losing weight.

SAME. I dont want any babies anyway.

be careful guys. Ya'll know I am huge on IF, but you don't want to mess up your hormones either where it hurts you in the long run.

Evil, Martin Berkham suggest starting at 14 hours for females, maybe start their and monitor weight loss and hormones. Then if you plateau, you can lengthen the time.

BTW both of you realize IF doesn't allow you to burn fat, its just an eating strategy right? Any weight loss is just from caloric restriction not the time restriction.

Also all of this is why weighing and measure and tracking is so important. Learning serving sizes and tracking etc is the key to learn term success.

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Posted by Evil Little Thing

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Posted on 6/26/18 at 8:02 am to lsu777

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BTW both of you realize IF doesn't allow you to burn fat, its just an eating strategy right? Any weight loss is just from caloric restriction not the time restriction.

Yes :) it helps control my appetite, so I’m taking in fewer calories than normal. I don’t go nuts during my 8 hour window.

I’m doing 16:8 now. I’m keeping an eye on how I feel to make sure I don’t throw things out of whack. I went too hard with IF the first time I tried it a couple years ago, and felt pretty cruddy after several months. On the plus side, I lost 25 lbs quickly and have kept it off for the most part.

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Posted by georgia

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Posted on 6/26/18 at 10:42 am to lsu777

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BTW both of you realize IF doesn't allow you to burn fat, its just an eating strategy right? Any weight loss is just from caloric restriction not the time restriction.

Also all of this is why weighing and measure and tracking is so important. Learning serving sizes and tracking etc is the key to learn term success.

I've been doing 16:8 too, I've been doing the gym from 4:30-6:30, so I'm starting the feeding window at 7ish in the morning, and not eating after 3, so that I know my sugar is not spiked during workouts, which should hopefully make them more effective correct? I'm eating at a 1500 limit, I know thats a pretty decent deficit for my weight, most days I come pretty close to that, and I know I'm firmly in ketosis. not losing as fast as last time, which is frustrating, but I'm trying to not let the mental game frick my attitude up. haha

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I havent been following much lately on MFP on what you are doing but its working. if you start plateauing email me and I will lay out the diet and some of the training for you.

You guys follow one another there? sometimes I feel like my aversion to MFP may be that I dont talk to anyone about it, theres nothing to keep me accountable or motivated to keep doing it.My friends are lazy fricks. I need a competitive tracking app I think