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Low-carb healthy fat living. Intermittent fasting. What’s your why?
LCHF Living & Intermittent Fasting | Last Active: Feb 24 8:07am | Replies (127)Comment receiving replies
I'm just beginning to explore IF, although for several weeks now I've been finishing dinner by 6pm and not eating again until 9am. I'm a 68 year old female; I've been putting on weight since I turned 66 and if I don't change something I'm going to weigh a ton before I know it! (It's really just belly fat that needs to go.) What I need to explore is what to eat when I do eat. Do I need to do keto? That's not attractive to me. Is just cutting out that one meal, perhaps sometimes two, enough? My big concern is getting enough fiber (I spent years getting my gut healthy) and getting enough nutrition.
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@trishdub I shared my intermittent fasting journey earlier in this discussion here - https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/336050/. I'm pretty much maintaining my current weight between 205 and 208 after I got it below 210 lbs. I can eat pretty much whatever I want but do try and limit the carbs and sugar along with regularly using a daily 16/8 or 18/6 hour fasting window. I use the Zero app on my phone which makes it easy to track. When I am trying to lose the weight, I used a 20/4 hour fast for 3 or 4 days in a row and the 18/6 fasting a day or two between the 20 hour fasting days.
Keto wasn't very attractive for me either 🙃 but I do try to eliminate as much sugar as my inner cookie monster allows and purposely look at or think about the number of carbs when I'm planning my meals. You might find it helpful to keep a log of your eating schedule and weight to see if you can spot trends faster to help with the weight.