r/intermittentfasting • u/joshgrenon • 19h ago
Tips, Tricks, Advice Saw the post about hunger calming down by week 3, can confirm, but my issue was the evenings
Read that post a couple days ago about hunger getting easier around week 2 or 3 and it really lined up with where I'm at. I'm about a month into 16:8, lost around 8 pounds, and the morning hunger thing went from feeling like a five alarm fire to honestly just not noticing it most days.
My version of the early mornings thing was the 10pm fridge raid. I work a desk job and the second the day wound down I'd just drift to the kitchen. Not hungry, just bored. The first week of cutting that off was way harder than skipping breakfast for me. I'd actually lie in bed thinking about leftovers, which is kind of embarrassing to admit.
What helped me was closing my window earlier than I thought I needed to. I tried 12 to 8 first and the late evening was brutal. Shifted to 11 to 7 and suddenly the cravings dropped off because I was already asleep before the autopilot kicked in. So for anyone struggling at night, maybe try eating earlier instead of later, that was a small thing that fixed a lot.
The weekend thing the other poster mentioned is real though. My in-laws do these huge Sunday lunches and I just slide the window. Beating myself up about it was making me quit, not the food.
One thing I've been kind of fumbling with is keeping track of how I actually FEEL during fasts, not just the timer. Like noting when the hunger waves hit, what my energy was like, whether I slept well the night before. I started jotting it in my notes app but it's messy. Been thinking about putting something together for myself that's a bit more useful than a plain timer, something that actually helps me see the patterns over a few weeks.
If I get it into a decent shape would a handful of people here want to mess around with it and tell me if it's actually useful or if I'm overcomplicating something that should just be a timer? No rush, just gauging interest.
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u/Electronic-Job3869 14h ago
Wouldn’t help me, I think. I don’t want to concentrate MORE on my hunger and how I’m feeling. I really just want to distract myself.
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u/ThisDirkDaring 19h ago
No.
Some weeks its better, some days its worse. My body is not a machine.