16/8 is good but i find it is a pretty long window in my eyes, i think that people new to fasting do find quicker gains doing OMAD (one meal a day) if you can cope with it, i think it works better and doesn’t require the focus on calorie counting. Or call it 20:4 have dinner n a light snack, have a black coffee no sugar in the morning and get back into it.
i ate anything i wanted and dropped my 1st 20lbs in 2 months with this, that’s when my fasts started to get longer and i started to focus on what i was eating more.
I would recommend finding a way to avoid too much overload of details to start with and instead focusing on a consistent fast and yes longer is great for a number of reasons but don’t go too hard too fast you want to just be consistent, easier not to fall off the wagon that way. Im 39yo 6’0 n down to 200lbs from 245 about 4 months ago, u got this man.