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Agree, keep an open mind and don't be affraid to try. I don't know how to categorize my IF, I've been doing it for 4 years. Tuesday and Thursday a snack at 14 and dinner around 21. Friday night, saturday and sunday I eat whatever I want. All other days just tea or cofee.

I'm 42 and I feel better than ever.

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Just to make sure I understand...

Sunday: coffee Monday: coffee Tuesday: snack and dinner Wednesday: coffee Thursday: snack and dinner Friday: three full meals Saturday: three full meals

Are you able to focus by Tuesday? I feel like I would struggle to be productive.

You get used to it after a while. The hardest part I found was social pressure to eat. So much of our culture revolves around eating that it's hard to do IF with any schedule where you leave out dinner time.

So skipping breakfast is super easy (IMHO) and skipping dinner is nigh impossible.

Skipping lunch highly depends on how pressured you feel to eat with your colleagues. I think one meal a day (usually named OMAD) is also not hard if you don't have lunch at work.

Monday coffee (or tea, mostly tea), Tuesday snack and dinner, Wednesday cofee, Thursday snack and dinner, Friday just dinner, Saturday three meals (or more or less) and Sunday three meals (or more or less).

I'm able to focus any day. Some months I do 1 week when I fast Monday, Tuesday and I eat dinner on Wednesday; body reboot.

I began to fast gradually and this is what I consider my optimal IF method.

it’s a blend of 5/2 and ADF (alternate day fasting)

most people undestand eating all your food for the day in a certain time window (8 hours) to be IF. The 8 hours eat + 16 hours fast is labeled 16:8.

but you know what, you can call it whatever you want as long as it works for you :)

Dinner around 21 (9 PM) would be quite late for me. What time do you then go to sleep?

I'm from Argentina, wake up at 6.15 and go to sleep at 22.

I feel like the timing of supper is a cultural thing. I prefer to eat later, but it sucks trying to do that in America, unless you want fast food. But I fell in love with Spain because it was honestly the optimal meals times for my body. Wish it was easier to do in America, at restaurants.

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