Feeling of shaky legs

Whenever I do 16:8, after 2-3 days of doing it, I get this shaky legs feeling and kinda like fatigue after mild cardio movement. This is around 3-4pm everyday which goes away after eating dinner. As soon as I get this feeling, I stop doing 16:8 and go back to regular eating schedule. This has prevented me from doing fasting in a sustained manner like other members of this sub. Just wanna know what might be the reason for it and if anyone experienced this. Just to add, this issue resolves itself in a week or so after going back to normal eating schedule. Any tips/advice appreciated.

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Sounds a bit like your body adjusting to new eating habits, the shakiness is also seen in people with hypoglycemia before they eat. When I first tried IF I’d get shaky and irritable if I went 3+ hours without eating during the day, this was on a low carb diet. I added carbs back and rarely feel the shaky uneasy feeling anymore.

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Maybe its your body adapting to the new eating schedule. You can always try to do IF some time, for like a week or two, and see how you feel. If it doesn’t go away, you can stop doing it and go back to your regular eating schedule.

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Also, you can start doing some other variation of IF like 12:12, and going up from there.