Anyone have experience with IF stop working?
I've been doing Intermittent Fasting since January 2020. My eating window is typically noon-6pm and fasting 6pm-12pm. When I first started in Jan 2020 I gained a few pounds before losing. I then held steady at the new weight until about December 2020. I've since gained back almost all the weight that I lost...about 7lbs. Nothing has changed in that span of time. Diet/eating habits are the same, exercise levels are the same (yoga M-F and run 4mi Sat and Sun). I've read blogs, and IF forums, and books, and podcasts and can't seem to find any info about IF not working/reversing after more than a year (lots on gaining before losing, but nothing on regaining after losing) and can't seem to find anything about constant morning hunger (again, find things about being hungry at first, but nothing about persistent hunger). I'm basically starving each morning by 9am. Sometimes I open my window at 11am. But basically spend 9am-11am/12noon thinking about how hungry I am. If I change my eating window I'd have to lengthen it to say 10am-6pm and not just shift it 10am-4pm, because we eat family dinner 7 nights a week and I won't give up eating dinner with DH and DDs. I don't find I'm starving at any other time of the day, just in the morning every.single.day.
I drink 1-2 cups of black coffee in the morning, eat lunch at 11am/12noon, have an afternoon snack, eat dinner between 5-6pm. No food or beverage other than water after 6pm. I exercise in the morning.
Jan 2020: 130lbs
gained 2lbs on IF
by June 2020 was 125lbs
held at 125lb until Dec 2020
currently weigh 130.
I don't avidly track calories or macros. I have plugged my daily food into MyFitnessPal a few times here and there and my calorie count is were it should be.
So, I'm STARVING (like ravenous!) every morning.
I eat normal for lunch, snack, dinner and am not starving then.
I exercise at least 30mins a day, 7 days a week.
I haven't changed any of the above habits in the 17 months I've been doing IF.
Any IF'ers have any thoughts?
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