This is my one year progress post.

I began at 431.6

The first month lost 25.2 lbs, down to 406.4

The second month, I lost 23.2 lbs, down to 383.2

The third month, I lost 20 lbs, down to 363.2

The fourth month lost 20.2 Ibs, down to 343

The fifth month, I lost 10.6 Ibs, down to 332.4

The sixth month, I lost 11.6 lbs, down to 320.8

The seventh month, I lost 11.2 lbs, down to 309.6

The eighth month, I lost 8.2 Ibs, down to 301.4

The ninth, I lost 11.4 lbs, down to 290

The tenth month, lost 5.8 Ibs, down to 284.2

The eleventh month, I lost 3.8 Ibs, down to 280.4

I am down to 276.4 lbs.

I lost a total of 155.2 lbs in one year

First of all, I'd like to thank everybody who has been following and keeping up with my progress. I'd also like to thank those that have commented words of encouragement, and to those that are just reading my post for the first time. What a year... This past year has been full of ups and downs. I can't believe I lost all this weight. I feel very good. One heck of a chapter this was in my life. I began my weight loss back in August 24th of 2025. I began doing OMAD, and low carb, low sugar, high protein. I eventually transitioned to 16:8 intermittent fasting. I began exercising almost every other day and incorporated walking into my days. My weight loss recently slowed down due to having two jobs. It's hard to make time for a full workout, and even harder to get the steps in but I'm not going to let this push me back. I will keep going. Emotionally, I am doing much better. There are some things that I must let go, things that are out of my control, and so I must now do some soul searching. This will most likely be my last post on here. But I will continue to lurk and cheer on the ones that continue to share their journey, and to those that are just starting. Thank you all for sharing your posts. It's encouraging to see everyone doing their best and seeing the results. Please don't ever be discouraged by a setback or falling. You can always get up and start again. You are powerful. If I could do it, you can too. Oh, and by the way, this chapter may be over for me, but my adventure keeps going. I will continue to lose weight. This wasn't my end goal. I plan on getting down to 220lbs. I may come back to show you all. But until then, please be well. Take care of yourselves. Please believe in yourselves. Be kind to yourselves. You can do anything.

Sincerely,

Victor S.

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It was a good month for me - one extended fast (Jul 27-Aug 6) and the rest were IFs. A few observations

• I'm quite disciplined on weekdays, not so much on weekends
• Parties and BBQs mess things up quite a lot, what a surprise 😄
• Tracking everything makes the trends easy to see (though it's quite an effort)

And one funny math thing - I averaged 17.3 fasting hours per day, but the average fast length was 24.5 hours (that's what mixing one extended fast with IFs does to an average).

How was your August?

Anyone doing if AND high carb?

Has anyone noticed improvement in their varicose veins with fasting?

Hello there. Just for a context, I am doing approximately 16-8 eating every day not because I choose to, but because I have to. I have chronic acid reflux (which may have been triggered by a 6 day water fast and/or high calorie keto after which my stomach had a hard time with). It isn't improving and I've had it for months.

I have to stop eating 5ish hours before bed or else the acid reflux completely destroys my sleep and compounds my sleep apnea. Sometimes even eating 4 hours before bed messes me up.

So I have naturally fallen into about a 16-8 eating window every day. I use a Wellue O2 ring, and doing this has greatly reduced my sleep heart rate. My average went from like 55 bpm per night before, to like 48 now. So that seems really cool.

But yeah I have persistent low blood pressure. I do readings and it's often 100/60 or 110/65. Like in the last 2 weeks I haven't ever crossed 120/80. I test in the morning. And I know what low blood pressure feels like, and I seem to be subjectively matching those symptoms. I am not recovering well after activity and exercise. Most days I'll be taking some electrolytes in the morning. 1/2 tsp of sodium and 1/4 tsp of potassium powder.

So is this eating style messing me up?

Also I guess for context, I wasn't having this low blood pressure saga until a few weeks ago, when I did some brief trialing of tongkat ali, boron, and cistanche. But I didn't take very much of any of those 3. And I fully stopped taking them. So I'm not sure why this happened.

My daily habits are 20:4 IF and keto. This weekend, I went out with friends and ate and drank like an animal. I haven’t gone out to eat and drink alcohol this much in 6 months, but I’ve been loosening my diet for the past 2 weeks since I’ve reached my first body fat percentage milestone.

I decided to do a 36 hour fast to quickly get back to ketosis. About an hour after my last meal yesterday, I did intense weightlifting. Today at noon, I did another gym session fasted. In the morning, I had two cups of Americano, my first time making one since I always prefer a flat white. I’m now at my 30th of 36 hour fast, in bed, excited to wake up tomorrow to eat. I also reached 14k steps today.

I’m pretty proud of myself as this was almost a cakewalk. While I did get hungry occasionally, nothing a bottle of water couldn’t solve. I’m just reminiscing back in the days, I would get very hungry and lightheaded if I work out fasted. When I started with my IF journey (18:6 no keto), I felt super hungry and weak 4 hours after my last meal, and look at me now about to finish my first 20+ hour fast.

I'm 42M, 6'1" (185 cm), around 138 kg / 306 lb, South Asian, and my latest HbA1c is around 6.7%.

I'm trying to lose a large amount of weight while preserving/building muscle and improving my metabolic health.

I've been reading a lot about 16:8, 18:6, 20:4 and OMAD, but I'm struggling to figure out whether fasting would actually be useful in my situation or whether I'm overthinking it.

For people who have successfully lost a large amount of weight with IF:

• What fasting schedule did you actually use?
• Did you eventually move toward OMAD?
• Did fasting make calorie control easier for you, or did you simply eat the same calories in a smaller window?
• How did you get enough protein while fasting?
• Did you do resistance training while fasted or during your eating window?
• Did you notice meaningful changes in blood glucose/HbA1c?
• Did you have problems with hunger, overeating, energy, sleep or training performance?
• If your goal was both fat loss AND muscle retention, would you choose 16:8, 18:6, 20:4 or OMAD?

Most importantly:

If you were 42, 6'1", 306 lb, with an HbA1c around 6.7%, would you use IF/OMAD as the foundation of your plan—or would you simply use a calorie deficit with 2–3 high-protein meals?

I'm looking for long-term experiences rather than "I lost 10 lb in two weeks" stories.

Thanks!

Graph one is the full 62 week history of my daily weigh ins

Graph two is the past month of my daily weigh ins

Graph three is the past week of my daily weigh ins

I have stopped feeling hungry. Like even if I have not eaten anything whole day then also I don't feel hungry. I eat by watching the time so as to follow the routine but Hunger feeling is missing from by lifestyle.

Hi everyone, I’m starting out on doing the 5:2 diet. I have done it before when I was younger to great success but over the past 6/7 years or so the weight has slowly creeped back up - mix in some tough and demanding years and now my weight is just about in the obese BMI range (not a lot of muscle) and so I would really like to change that again. All in all I have about 20kgs (3 stone/42lbs) to lose.

Weight has been a big focus throughout my life and so I would rather have to maintain this diet/lifestyle in some form for the rest of my life, than yoyo again. In my planning, I have a weight where I would taper down to 1 fasting day a week, and another weight (which I consider too low) where I would stop altogether but continue to monitor. My question is, does anyone here currently use the 5:2 approach to maintain a lower weight and avoid significant weight increase? If so for how long, and do you plan to do it for the foreseeable future?

So I am thinking of starting my Alternate Day Fasting Omad from today 31 - August- 2026. I also go to gym for training. I am in the Obesity Class 2.

I am doing this for my mental health and not so greate relationship with food. I am starting this so that I don't give up on myself like all the time. I am mentally not in a good space. So I am trying to distract myself by engaging in other things.

My current weight : 107 Kg (as of 2 weeks ago)

Day 01: Done I went to gym after taking a month off for my vacation. I did strength training for 30 minutes and cardio for 20 minutes (inclined treadmill walking).

I was overwhelmed yesterday due to personal issues. But felt great after my gym session and shower.

Day 02 : Omad I am in a pretty great mood.

Just starting on this journey. I’ve been doing 16:8 for a couple weeks, and and transitioning to 18:6, and ultimately OMAD.
This combo tastes just like salt on a Granny Smith apple!

hello !! was just wondering if randomly starting a 23:1 (OMAD) fast without trying fasting before is okay ? i’ve felt lightheaded a couple times but listened to my body and would have like one chicken nugget and even now during my fasting window had a small bag of pretzels. should i start with a more manageable fast or will i be okay ?

thought i should also mention that im rather a healthy individual. i do vape, but thats it - i dont have any underlying medical conditions

Basically I have brain fog all day, with a few waves of clarity that come and go but mostly I'm exhausted and find it hard to think or remember things. My muscles are heavy and tired all the time.. it's hard doing stuff, feel like a slug. But I've still functioned, got my steps in, worked etc.

It sucks feeling this way though, how long did it take people to get past the brain fog and weakness?? And did some people just never improve?

On the plus side, although I've had some intense hunger it's not nearly as much as I expected and I can handle it fine. Food noise has improved massively!

Edit: I take electrolytes all day and eat very healthy

I'm a thirty one year old woman, 5'6" and weigh about 63kg. I'm trying to lose a small amount of weight and then to maintain, and Im trying to have a calorie deficit of between 200 - 500 cals a day depending on how I feel. I've had some big surplus days recently though due to socialising and holiday. I wanted to try intermittent fasting because it seems like the only way to quiet food noise while being in a deficit and I like the simplicity. I just don't like tired achey muscles and brain fog!

I’m 5 months post partum and trying to lose weight — I gained 80 lbs in my pregnancy, far too much and it’s having a negative affect on my health. I’m 5’4” and 230 lbs. I’m used to intermittent fasting since I did that for a year before I went to college. But when I tried to go back to a 12 hour fast (I’m used to doing 16), I threw up! I had some plain green tea that morning, nothing else.

For context: I started my weight loss journey by counting calories with a goal of 1,800 since I’m breastfeeding. I’ve also been taking daily walks. Despite this I’m not seeing any changes. I used the waist measuring method, since scales can be unreliable and don’t account for muscle growth, but after meticulously counting my calories for a MONTH I didn’t lose a single inch!!! I’m so frustrated. That was when I started fasting again, and then threw up on my first day. Now I just have a matcha latte (no sugar, just tea and milk) for breakfast. But I know I’m missing some benefits by having milk. Any advice? I really need to improve my health. My legs hurt so bad and I’m always sore. I’m starting to get skin issues from being so large. This is really bumming me out.

Over the last 4 months, I have been on 300kcal daily deficit, eating low carbs + fat, high protein, no sugar, no processed foods, going 2-3x weekly to the gym, occasionally walking 10,000 steps.

Last month I added IF 8:16 on top of all these, and it helped me considerably where I was kind of plateauing with diet + gym only.

So in 4 months:

- 5kg weight loss

- 11cm waist reduction

- more power when lifting at the gym

- a tiny bit more body definition

- No sugar or snack cravings

My target is body recomp. Flatten belly, build muscle. Way to go, but these months were encouraging.

Keep dieting and fasting!

i wanna cry so badly,i was 55 kg at 16 very skinnyand then i gained 60 kg in 2 years, im 20 now please tell me there is hope for me to prevent saggy skin

Those of you who have had success losing weight through IF have you noticed your sleep improving?

I’ve been doing 16:8 or 18:6 for about two months now. This past week I had an event and wasn’t able to fast because I couldn’t control my own mealtimes. I decided to do a 24 hour fast to “reset” myself. Well I finished it up a couple of hours ago and I’m blown away by how easy it was. Like I wasn’t hungry once, and when I do my 16:8’s there usually a couple of points through my fast that I feel hunger. So weird, wanted to share.