No fasting for me. I try not to snack but if I do have too its fruit of some type. Breakfast (small) Lunch and a small supper because I eat a little late and don't want to go to bed full. Day 14 W/O soda not planning on going back now.
Im at 1.5 years without soda, and I dont feel the draw to drink one again. It was hard at first, but now its nothing. I do drink the carbonated energy drinks on occassion (so i guess its like soda, but has energy stuff in it, but its not the Monsters or anything like that, they are still zero sugar)
I did the intermittent fasting, 16:8 up to OMAD and lost a decent amount of weight, but plateaued. It was a me thing though, when it was time to eat I ATE enough to lose the weight loss benefits. I still do the 16:8 on days I dont workout, but thats only a couple days a week.
I eat a lot of protein, but do still eat carbs on training days, go low carb on rest days. I have gained about 4 lbs in the last 3-4 weeks, but have been dropping fat like a bad habit, where people are thinking I am losing a lot of weight.
The key is is to find something that works for you and you can sustain, and can modify if you plateau. The plateau is part of the carb and calorie cycling I am doing now, and after this cycle of cycling (probably another 12 weeks) I am going back to cutting calories to drop weight. I am ok with plateauing for now, for my current goals, but I would like to drop another ~40 lbs so that will start. I may not wait for the 12 weeks to be up, I may give it 3-6, then really start aggressively cutting weight (1-3 lbs a week, nothing drastic).
33 years old, male, ~240 lbs. My "fat pants" pile is growing.
