Amateur Tip: Keep Your Feeding Window Buttoned Up

I endorse all the usual advice -- keep your protein up, lots of vegetables, lots of water, etc. But also, don't let your pre-fast meal window get away from you. I try to do 18:6 fasts, with a feeding window between 2pm and 8pm. Eating a late lunch at 2:00 isn't bad ... unless I have a late dinner the night before and I don't finish eating until 9:15 (like, ahem, last night). Then it's either a 3:15 lunch or break the fast early, which I did. I found the more of my fast I can do before bed, the easier fasting is the following day.

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That final sentence is spot on. I hate waiting that final hour for a 2-3pm lunch if I’ve finished my fasting window later in the previous evening. I keep reminding myself to be strict with my 7pm deadline so I can actually eat at 1pm when I start feeling a tad hungry

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I see. Interestingly, this gets turned on its head when you fast 36hrs or longer. I do alternate day OMAD, and the earlier I eat my meal, the harder it becomes to get through the following day without eating.

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Absolutely. Start logging hours for tomorrow as soon as you can today. Eat dinner, be done eating, sit around your house full and happy, go to bed.

Tomorrow, when you wake up, you’ve already done so much of the work. Ride that black coffee as long as you can.

Do not eat sweet things at dinner. That’s my pro-tip. Eat sweet things when the sun is high in the sky. Give your walking around body time to deal with that stuff.