How You Can Workaround Fasting Windows and Make it Work for You

I have introduced 5 popular intermittent fasting windows in my last post. How about my personal fasting windows? It’s time to show how I workaround my fasting windows and make it work well for me. Here is a live example of how I manage my eating schedule. The main theme is – to keep it simple and flexible. I have a food diary to record my every single meal detail. As someone who eats mostly one meal a day, what to eat, where to eat and with whom to eat are very important to me. 

Without prejudice, I have picked a week from my food diary for demonstration purpose. I have drawn up a table to indicate my eating schedule for the first week of August in 2018. For the 7-day period, I have had 7 full meals and 3 light meals. And there are also a few sessions of 24-hour fasting. *Note, my light meal can me as light as a fruit or some steamed vegetables, just to add some more fiber to my daily diet.

You will find that I’m combining two of the mainstream intermittent fasting patterns – 2 meals and 1 meal a day. My preferred option is one meal (dinner) a day. But as a matter of fact, I had to do it flexibly.

The big picture is: keep at least two 24-hour fasting windows in a week. That's it. Make it simple and flexible. Never fix a day and do it on an unplanned and natural manner. If you keep your eating schedule too rigid, you will have no fun, and somehow will affect your social life.

As for myself, my preferred one meal option is to have dinner only. But you will notice I have had all the 7 full meals at lunch hour, because I have to workaround my fasting window flexibly to accommodate the business and social requests during lunch hour. So if I have a full meal for lunch, I will have no dinner or light dinner.

Will you pick any of your 7-day periods and review your eating schedule? See if you are able to skip one or two meals and still manage to keep your business, social and family lives in balance?  If so, then you are on the starting point to manage your own intermittent fasting windows. If you don’t have a food diary yet, then set up a simple one and review it after one week. 

Anna's Thought Today:

Make fun by fasting, enjoy eating while losing weight!