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Advice needed !

Hi all, I’m 31 yo female, petit with 51 kg +-. I’ve been doing IF for a couple of years usually 16:8. Having stopped during pregnancy. Always worked fine for me. But after 2nd baby i can loose this extra 2kg of fat (i used to be 48/49) and i know it’s fat because I do check always the body composition in the scale. My question is if i wanted to go an extra mile just to remove this extra weight what would you do? 24h fasting? More? I’m already on a healthy weight and bla bla bla but i wanna get back to previous one in 3 weeks because I’m going on a vacation 😅 Thanks!

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I’m completely different (29m, 125kg in 2020, 80kg today) but I feel like I have my fair share of IF and weight loss experience. For me if I want to really go hard for a few weeks 18:6 is my solution.

No calories before 1pm. No calories after 7pm. Try to keep the total under 1500 a day most days. Pretty much guaranteed weight loss regardless of what I do with exercise and lifestyle.

For a goal of only 1-2kg when already weighing just 52kg I don’t know if this would work as well. But you could try it for a week or two and see how it goes?

Otherwise there’s 20:4 and OMAD, but personally I always struggled with making those routines sustainable without having some sort of calorie binge when the other shoe drops.

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While I’m much older then you, our height and weight are pretty similar. I started IF the last week of January (2023) at around 51kg. By quitting alcohol, eating healthier, exercising 4 days a week and fasting anywhere from 16-18 hours (no set schedule, just based on how I feel), I lost 2.5kg quite easily. Granted, most is water weight, but slimmer, nonetheless.