How do you break a fast

[Amy]

Hi, just have a quick question on the method you use to break your fast and stay within your calorie range. Originally I decided to fast, my thinking being fast from say 6pm in the evening to about 3pm the next day. Break fast with a few small meals eaten in a 3 hour period with calories topping out at 600.

Is this okay? Or should I have just one meal of 600 calories and call it good? Like fast from 6pm until 5pm next day. Does it make a difference if I leave a little window open? I feel better eating a few small meals and not one large one all at once.

Thanks for any advice!

[donna]

Well however it works best for you is how to do it, but definitely plan what you will eat in advance. Not planning spells trouble as after you start to eat, your appetite can really kick in. So know your calorie budget! I sometimes do 36 hour fasts cause they were easier than eating dinner and trying to stay within my goal.

[gemma]

Do what feels best to you. The idea of eat stop eat is when you break your fast you resume your normal way of eating without eating back the meals you fasted through.

[laura]

Test it and see if it works for you. This is a big experiment. For me personally, I break it with something like a bowl of veg soup (150 cals), then I have a dinner of about 300 cals about 2 hours later. If I need it I will have some fruit about 1 hour after that.

[susan]

Amy, like every else has already said, whatever works for you.

I always had one meal after my fast and I was done for the day. My meal was probably 600-800 calories, but I was not actually tracking calories, and I did this back when I had weight to lose, every day for a couple of months actually and it worked for me back then. I did not eat huge meals, but I ate raw cheese, raw butter, and full fat greek yogurt and stuff like that so it brought the calories up. I wasn’t planning calories, it’s just that was what I ate back then (all organic), I somehow managed to lose weight by eating small amounts of some pretty high calorie foods.

[Amy]

Thanks Everyone for your advice. Obviously I will have to keep experimenting with what works. Hmm, maybe even somedays all I will need is one bigger meal and be done and some days I may need several small. Tonight worked out to be a couple small, although looking back, maybe I didn’t need the last 200 cals, just ate it because in my mind I was shooting for a certain number.

It’s fun! All this experimenting, isn’t it? To learn and really listen to your body is interesting to be sure.

[Cheryl]

I am pretty new to this all and what I have been doing is working great for me and I have been managing to lose about 3-4 lbs every week for about the past 3-4 weeks.

What I do is fast from 5pm to 5pm and then plan out what I am going to eat when the time comes to break my fast. I try to stay in the calorie range of 600-800 calories.

I have been going out for supper with my husband on Fridays and I will usually find a restaurant that I want to eat at and then determine before I even get there what I am going to eat (a lot of times you can find calorie count for some of these chain restaurants ie, applebees)…that way I do not go over my calories and I am ahead of the game. I do the same thing if I am eating at home….plan out what I will be eating when 5 pm comes.

I usually fast on Tuesdays and Thursdays and so far I am loving it….it gives me the freedom to enjoy a dinner with my husband that does not require me to eat just carrots and celery. I eat good and that is what I truly love about this. I am not depriving myself as some may think when they hear the word “fasting”. I thought I would chime in, since I am having success with doing it this way.

I also find that if drink green tea throughout the day….I am able to get through my fast without any real hunger issues. But as the others have said, the key is finding what works for you and just making sure that you don’t undo your fast by eating too many calories. Good Luck!

[Doris]

I am glad someone asked this! I felt guilty for breaking up my last meal into 3 small meals in a very small window instead of eating my 600 or so Cal dinner all at once. Usually I’d have have some veggies then a hour later my main course then a dessert which was usually Greek yogurt. If I ate it all at once I would
Still be hungry. But if I broke it up like that I wasn’t.

[nancyrobin]

No, I never tried to break fast.

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