To watch my first video about Intermittent Fasting, head here! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iJudY82A0tbbmo0.html

I've been doing intermittent fasting for about a month now and I feel great. I've also lost about 10 lbs and 4in around my waist! I am finding it to be so easy and I'm so happy with the results!

After watching your last video about this and then that Ted talk I started intermittent fasting. I thought trying it for 30 day couldn't hurt anything. I have lymphoedema in my left arm and really bad trigger finger in my right hand due to side effects from surgery and post chemo drugs. I haven't changed anything except the time of day I eat. Within 3 days my trigger finger was better. I am seeing improvement in my left arm too. I don't have to wear my compression sleeve on my arm as much. At the 30 day mark I was at my once a year check in with my oncologist and he asked about my inflammation. I told him I knew it sounded crazy but I thought intermittent fasting was helping me. He cut in and said that he really believes that for some people it really works and he was very encouraging to me to keep going. I have no intention of stopping. It is just what I do now. Thank you for sharing this information. OH, I've also lost about 10 pounds🤷‍♀️😁

Thanks for the update, Jen! I enjoyed hearing more about your journey with this.

Congratulations on feeling better and finding a great option to make it work. Thank you for sharing your methods too.

Great update. And so glad to hear of the health benefits you’ve been enjoying! My husband and I have been doing low-carb and IF since the end of May, and we’re loving both the weight loss and energy.

So glad you’re feeling good!!!

Oh Jen....inspire me! Last year I took my weight loss seriously and I lost over 20kg (44ish lbs). I was halfway to my goal when Covid locked us in our homes.....I need to get back on track and focus and control my hormones and emotions because I haven’t completely erased 2019 results but I’m almost there....I’m not an anxious person normally but I do eat my feelings, or eat my way through my feelings and this year has basically gotten the better of me.

Thank you for this! I’m going to share this my accountability group.

I’m ready to try IF. Rewatching your videos and getting inspired! Xoxo

Thanks Jen for sharing your experience! When we were sent to work at home in March I started this because I was so much less active and was feeling very lumox ish. There wasn’t a need to get up, eat breakfast, and then walk over to my living room to sit...eat again twice more times. Definitely feeling similar improvements as you and my mood has been positively affected as well. Will definitely keep it up. Good luck as you keep going with it!

Woohoo! Love IF! I follow you on both of your channels through my other account and somehow missed that you were doing this! So glad you have experienced benefits from fasting, especially your joint pain, that’s amazing! It has been a blessing to me too, so I am glad you’re sharing your experience. 😊

Very informative. I’m looking forward to the livestream tomorrow. 😘❤️

I have just begun intermittant fasting but I do liquids only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Mostly homemade chicken bone broth with jello and coffee of course! I do use liquid sugar free creamer as well. I drink water and some sugar free cranberry juice and maybe will have a protein shake with plant milk once in a while. The other 4 days are regular food but I do try to stay fairly close to the Mediterranean diet plan with lots of vegs and some fruit, lean chicken and fresh homemade bread. I do have to limit that! We will see how it goes as I have osteo arthritis and fibromyalgia and to get those two issues toned down a couple notches would be awesome. I did enjoy very much listening to your encouraging video!

I have been getting more mindful of what I'm eating and wanting to start intermittent fasting mostly to help myself from eating mindless night snacks! Thanks for sharing your experience :) I heard once you stop giving into the craving (especially at night) your body is supposed to stop craving, that's what I'm really hoping for too haha

This is great. I too have been doing intermittent fasting and am seeing a lot of benefits. My issue is also the late night eating. I like to call it my default, so like you said, not a slave to it, just my default unless there is some reason not to do it, that is what I go with. During Covid I have been finding my defaults in a lot of areas of life and look forward to exploring your channel to help me with that process. 💜

Thanks for this! My life has been transformed by this sort of information. I am turning 65 and for the past 2 years I have combined LOW CARB (Keto) with Intermittent Fasting, lost 82 lbs., came off ALL MEDICATIONS (2 for hypertension, one for high cholesterol and gave up my CPAP for sleep apnea). I am Loving life! I started my own KZfaq channel “Bill C Thompson - Live Healthy, Finish Strong

I just completed my first 30 days. I watched your first video and researched and decided I'd try for 30 days and see how I felt. I also have hoshimotos and even with my meds I feel so blah most days and about a year ago I had my gallbladder removed and for the first time had acid reflux, digestion issues, bloating, ect. I also have back issues where I can't walk very far without being in alot of pain. So, after 30 days I feel better than I have in a long time and lost 9.9lbs. So its been a huge success so far. Thank you so much for sharing and opening my eyes to this. I would have never thought of intermittent fasting would help with so much!!!

Thank you for the update and hooray for the weight loss and less joint pain!! 😃 tomatoes and I also have a love/hate relationship - if I eat too many tomato products for multiple days, it can flare my eczema. I always can look back and know it was 🍅

Great to hear you've had such positive results from this. I have only done intermittent fasting unintentionally because as a parent of small children - I often go 12 hours without eating. However, no weight...must be something to do with all the quarantine snacks ;) Hope you continue to see progress!

I started an 8-ish/16-ish intermittent fasting habit back in March, just before The Great Unpleasantness. I’m down a little over 10lbs. The stay-at-home that started in mid-March helped tremendously - more chances to work out and daily dog walks. Hopefully remote working will be made permanent with my job!

Thank you for this information and sharing your journey with us 💜💜💜

I have been doing a modified fasting after watching your first video. I eat between 7 am and 5 pm. I might try the full 16 hour fasting soon. I had to work up to that. I have lost about 8 pounds. I truly think it is not eating after dinner that is the key. Way to keep it up for 90 days!

I have been doing this for one week now (well tomorrow lol). Its been easy i must say so fingers crossed i will keep on going! I have also lost 3.9 pounds so that's been wonderful! Its been very helpful keeping journal and writing things down in regard to what im eating and when. And can i just say i feel like i just watched the first video and your already done with 90 days?!?!?! Wow!

I was doing intermittent fasting but took last week off just bc of all the stress but this it total inspiration to get back on it! And you are right once I got used to it I didn’t miss eating during my fasting hours and I actually woke up feeling better and not weighted down by the end before snacks!!

Jen, I have been doing the intermittent fasting since your last video. I found myself agreeing with everything you said in this video. I feel good and that bloated feeling is gone. I too munched later at night. Of course I knew I shouldn't but.... I don't crave either. All good here! Btw...your hair looks fabulous 😍 lol

That was really helpful thank you----have been thinking of IF 16/8 window to see if it helps my psoriatic arthritis / mctd (also for weight loss). Thanks for talking about your experience with it.

Awesome 👍. Thanks for sharing.

I find this so fascinating but like you, I often hear people say they realize they were eating later and not eating in the morning was easier...but I'm definitely the kind of person who feels like if there is a meal I can skip, it's dinner. Very interesting!

Hey Jen, great info. I need to go watch the Ted Talk. I did try intermittent fasting last year but only lasted 10 days but then a couple month later I did it for another 10 days. I just wasn't ready to stick to it (by the way I have Hashimotos too) However, it did change the way i ate, now I eat intuitively and pretty much only eat 2 meals a day even though i tried it only for a short time. and lost 10 lbs. I'm excited to try it again soon! Thanks for the info. 💜

I have lost 70 lbs with IF, I started in April of 2020, with just started cutting carbs, then landed on an IF video and went from there. It is coming up on 2 years. Sometimes, I am doing a quasi keto, between 40 to 80 g of carbs a day.

Congratulations on those results, Jen! That's amazing! I have been intermittent fasting now for 3 weeks. And to my surprise it is going absolutely fine, it's so easy even to keep up. I use an app to keep me on track with drinking water and when to stop or start eating :) I do the 14/10 window because I also have some medication that needs to be taken with food in the morning and the evening, so for now I can't make that window smaller, but I intent to try that in the near future! we'll see, but I'm actually hopeful about it. Even after a few days I could totally feel a difference already and that was that I wasn't feeling so bloated. I started focussing again on my water intake and that has improved again so another plus on that! yay :) I have lost 1 kilo (it does shift a bit, one day I lose like 500 grams, 3 days later I might have gained 800 grams, but in total after 3 weeks, 1 kilo is goners! :)) I have a Zoom call tomorrow with my dietitian so she'll be pleased to hear that I'm feeling wonderful, less bloated, lost some weight and the main reason for me to start was indeed also to stop the mindless snacking in the evenings! That has totally worked. As soon as the app tells me: 1 hour to go! I then think: do I still need to eat something... or maybe do I still want a little treat or some desert? and sometimes I don't, sometimes I do eat like a mini Ice cream cone or a few spoonfuls of Ben&Jerry's...I wait until like 7.50pm so that I'm still not snacking for like an hour and when it's 8pm, that's it, I stop, put everything of food that might be still near me, away and I go brush my teeth and do all the things I have to do before bed so I don't have to do those later on anymore and it feels so good. It's like a new routine already.

Thanks for sharing. I have ulcerative colitis, its inflammation in the colon, and hashimotos and have been considering intermittent fasting. Sounds like I should be!

I did IF for about a week and lost 3.5 pounds already. It’s great.

I’m 63 and I’m not a breakfast person and I’m not hungry when I get up so I don’t eat till around noon. I’ve been doing this for about a month and have actually gained some inches in my belly and a few pounds. I cut out gluten and dairy over a year ago and lost some weight but with Covid I’ve been having a glass of red wine too often and with my husband home I’ve been doing more cooking. I walk my dog a couple miles every day and about three days a week ride 7 miles on my bike and do weights. I’m only 5 foot and weigh 144 and a size 10. I can’t seem to get to my target weight of 120 or down to a size 6 no matter what I do. I was always told that not eating actually slows down your metabolism.

I take an all natural, multi , D3 with K2 (liquid), and B1, also iodine and electrolytes..

Mark Alan started keto and intermittent fasting on Monday (currently Friday) and has already lost 6 pounds! Probably mostly water, but still!

Wait....the video that seems to have been yesterday was actually from 2 months ago??!? Gaaaaaaaahhhh...time warp!! The concept of time during the Great Unpleasantness is so messed up. Love a good follow-up video, though! This is all really interesting. And I'm all about challenging the norms of what we were taught, which were seemingly based on nothing - like the Food Pyramid and 8 glasses of water, and all that stuff. Everyone's bodies function similarly but uniquely, and it's great to find what works best for our individual selves.

I’ve never been a morning eater...Just give me coffee with a splash of cream and I can start my day.... Biggest problem has always been eating at night... It’s crazy how much one can mindlessly eat...Started cutting myself off at 7:00 and bam 10 pounds gone... intermittent fasting has made me significantly more aware of how bad the snack habits had gotten.... I’ve also noticed how much better I sleep when I haven’t been eating all night long.

Am female 5’10ft tall and am 48yr old lost 3.5 pounds since the switch

My nurse practitioner said I should weight 180 for a lower bmi

I keep meaning to try this(usually right after I've eaten breakfast 🤦🏼‍♀️). Do you go running before you've had food at 11AM? Have you had any issues with that? I usually do a weight based workout twice a week in the mornings(30 minutes). I worry about low blood sugar/light headedness without a meal before those workouts. Let me know if that has been a concern at all. I think this would be great for me, I just need to decide to start...tomorrow😜

My TPO antibodies dropped during intermittent fasting.

If I could just give up potato chips. I'm pretty good with eating except I still get these cravings. If I could just get through those craving times. I do think it's right; one morning I was so busy I skipped breakfast. I noticed I was just fine for lunch. I thought I was going to be feeling like I'd pass out. That was not the case.

How does your eating schedule fit in with your exercise schedule?

Do you run in the morning without eating? That's one of my biggest concerns. It's probably just my brain telling me I can't run on an empty stomach. Or just fear that my run will be even harder because I haven't eaten.

I embarrassingly weight 217pounds and now weight 213.6 pounds Started 18:6 fast from 16:8 didn’t work snacking all day in the 8 hr window saying that's all i have runny out of time

I was at the Indian grocery store today and bought fresh tumeric. I bought it on a whim, but have since read all these great things about its impact on inflammation. Have you had any experience with fresh or dry tumeric?

Great video, very helpful info. My diet is pretty much the same. Attended a seminar by a doctor, who said it takes six hours to digest food. So he said it's best to stop eating that many hours before bed. The weight loss was dramatic: 23 lbs.! Aloe Vera juice works magic on acid reflux. I agree 💯 percent, less food is the way to go. Also, when we eat. Blessings to you and yours 💞

Yes IF is great ! And you are one lucky person that can eat pizza or drink coffee with hashimoto’s ... I can’t anymore and is frustrating but it is what it is 😊

I love you l cannot take coffee out it’s my drug l tried black coffee taste like bad medicine thanks for sharing

I checked my BMI I should weigh 170