IS THERE ANYONE DOING THE 16.8 DIET OUT THERE??

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kiwikazza

1:37 am
26 May 16
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Hello, Just started the 16.8 last week after watching a few tv programs with Michael Mosely. Because I do a twilight shift at work I found fasting from 8pm to 11 works for me ok. This is only my first week and have struggled a bit with having hunger pangs. I’m hoping this will ease with time. I only started putting on weight in my late 40’s (now 62) and like many others out there, tried every diet / pills in the book. There is always some new diet coming out and we believe this is it!!! However fasting does make sense so here goes. Is there anybody out there doing the 16.8? and if so can you give me your findings.

bigbooty

1:52 am
26 May 16
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5:2 if done correctly works. I lost 44 pounds in one year. Really depends if youre combining the 8 hour eating window with a slightly reduced calorie intake or not? Or are you eating your usual amount in that window? I think there is a slight benefit in eating one or two meals instead of eating three meals and snacks even if the two where exactly the same amount of food intake for the day. Every time you eat you cause an insulin spike which takes 2-3 hours to come back down again. Insulin spikes cause food intake to be stored as fat. Sugar and simple carbs like bread and pasta and fruits are the worst for causing insulin spikes. Fats cause virtually no insulin spike, protein a modest increase.

Short story is yes I think there is an advantage in doing 16/8. Will it be enough to get you losing weight without additional changes in diet and eating patterns? Maybe. Success doesn’t chase you, you have to chase it.

IndyNadaJones

7:56 am
26 May 16
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You may consider starting off with 16.8 for the first week, and then if you are able to manage it, slip into 5:2 whilst maintaining 16.8. Though you might want to start with 6:1, before you slot into 5:2.

I kind of did the reverse. I started off with 5:2 and then slipped into 16.8 on non-fast days, basically by skipping breakfast first, and then slowly cutting lunch off.

After a few weeks on 5:2, I started to feel that I could get by with eating less on non-fast days’ meals. So I experimented with skipping breakfast altogether, which went off without a hitch. Then I slowly but surely began reducing the amount of food I ate during lunch, mainly by trying to eat less carbs and follow a VLC diet on non-fast days, and so focussing on mostly eating vegetables and very little animal protein. Though I do supplement this by munching on a few almonds when I feel hungry, and that seems to do the trick.

Interestingly, my weight loss seems to have tailed off a bit (totaling 5 kilos in 6 weeks now), but I am getting slow but steady reductions in fat %, balanced with slow and steady increases in muscle and bone %.

Sylphadora

9:00 pm
27 May 16
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I do 16:8 on the 5 days I’m not fasting for a combination of reasons:

– I want to reap the benefits of daily fasting
– I usually don’t have time to have breakfast and don’t like eating at the office
– I love high-fat meals like nuts & avocado and like to eat large quantities of it

There are even days -feeding days, not fast days- when I eat just once but hit my calorie goal with no problem at all. It’s very easy for me to go over 1,000 in one sitting not eating junk food of any kind. Every once in a while I eat close to 100 g of nuts in one sitting and that’s about 600 cals already.

I really love nuts and I find it really hard to stick to a 1-ounce serving, so the 16:8 plan works really well for me in the way that by skipping breakfast I can ‘save’ the cals allotted to that meal for another meal later in the day, allowing me to have a nut mini-binge, so to speak.

So instead of 3 meals + snacks I have 2 larger than normal lunch & dinner, or just dinner with a large portion of nuts.