When I first went on intermittent fasting it was before I realized I had breast cancer. It started early last spring and I would try not to eat after 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon. If I got too hungry I had a salad with broccoli beets celery and sometimes chopped onion which I love. I put on any kind of salad dressing but lightly. I got up early in the morning and still do like 5:00 a.m. and I must admit I ate like a horse. And I find I have to have meat somewhere in there I would eat an early breakfast eggs of course sometimes with bacon and refried beans. The pinto beans are really loaded with the minerals and then I know that they have iron. That's all I know about that. I'm not a nutritionist. I know what makes my body feel good by about 10:00 I was having hamburger or ham or leftover pork chop. I tried to stay from wheat products and that includes bread and buns etc. Of course I never ate or drank soda pop or a lot of candy or anything like that. Sometimes I would eat lunch or sometimes you could call pre-dinner at at around 1:30 or 2:00. To get through the evening I would drink a lot of water but no water after 6:00 p.m. if it got really bad around 5:00 I would have a cup of hot cocoa made with melted Bittersweet or semi-sweet chocolate chips a little sugar and once that's pretty hot I add the milk heat it all up and stir .