Schedule change

So recently changed jobs and with my new schedule the best time for me to workout would be before work. My schedule before was get up go to work, workout after then eat dinner with the family. The thought of 8 hours between working out and eating is a tough pill to swallow and I’m really not willing to eat in the morning and sacrificing dinner with my family. I’ve adjusted before to similar circumstances but was much younger. Any thoughts or ideas.

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You can adjust if you want to.

It will be difficult at first but does get easier. So the first day you cave and eat lunch. You’ll make it longer the next day and after a couple of weeks you will have adjusted 100%.

And chances are you’ll be going to bed earlier and can even move your eating window up a bit to compensate?

AND IMO there is no single better feeling in the world than going to work in the morning with your workout DONE.
That is worth a lot to me, so much so that I can handle a bit of hunger.

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You could try OMAD+ on workout days - I’m insinuating from your post that you do OMAD. Which is just fasting for at least 16 hours and then breaking fast with a small meal or snack until later eating an OMAD meal. I do this with a protein shake, more for the nutrients on days I work out than the calories, but this at least gets something in my stomach a few hours after a workout rather than waiting all day.