The Ultimate Guide To Intermittent Fasting For Women

How long does it take to see results?

How long before results should start. Plus, I work 8-5 and can’t do must exercise if any during my morning fast period and not able to cook my meals during work day. I haven’t seen a plan for a regular 8-5 work schedule. Please help?

Have you seen intermittent fasting affect your cycles at all?

i am 48 years . Have been a trainer for more than 16 years..Now a co founder of ilove9months, dedicated to pregnancy wellness and support services. i have always been muscular and trying to get lean..started IF..Your article was a good read and only encourages me to continue ,,

Thank for this it really helps! But since I work on night shift I feel lost as to when I should fast vs eat vs work-out :/
I work 4 days in a row, then 4 days off. When i work my day goes like this: work from 22h to 8h, sleep from 10h to 17h and I usually work out (tabata or cardio Hiit) in my lunch time around 1 or 2h in the morning. The problem I have is that if I dont eat a good meal before going to bed I keep wake up bc I’m hungry 🙁
On days off I sleep from ~3h in the morning to 12 and I usually do more intense work out on those days.
Please help ! I’m kind of lost here.
Thank you so much ❤

On days I work I don’t get to go workout until 3:30 pm and get home at 5pm. I would have to eat during the day but it’s better to have the workout on an empty stomach. I do that on the weekends but it’s impossible Monday through Friday. Would I eat 7am-3pm and the fast from there or would my eating window be shorter like from 5 to bed time?

Hey there! Thanks for the great article!! I am 39, and my fiancé got me into intermediate fasting. We’ve been doing it together for about 7 months now. I feel great and I’ve lost so much body fat! I’ve been a personal trainer for 9 years, and I’ve always eaten pretty healthy. I work out hard and fasting enables me to have some freedom with my diet. I follow a similar “rule” for the timing of my fast!

Thank you for the well laid out article and the benefits that most people don’t know about!!!

I would just be afraid that after all that fasting, my insulin would spike like crazy when finally eating at 11am.

Great article. I never thought about the male/female situation concerning this, but it made sense to me. I believe a long fast of about 10 days would totally heal so many issues, diseases, etc. I have fasted that long and never felt better in my life! IF is a great way to stay healthy. I start the day with warm lemon juice every morning. Do you think this would interfere with IF? I am 66 and feel 20! I eat organic and never crave junk. It is worth feeling so well at my age. Never had to take medicine because I believe the body can heal itself. That is the way our Creator made us.

Hi…just wanted to ask that i m a tutor who has classes at 5 am and then again from 3:30-8:30 pm…my sleep pattern is from 12:30 am to 4:30 am and then 9:30 am -11:30 pm…can u advice some diet variatios for me to follow intermittent fasting….plz

This information is very good and easy to follow. I look forward to seeing sone great results.

What foods to eat ??

Is this diet right for me when I have high cholesterol?

Thank you! Your explanation on fasting and meal timing…I have connected so many dots that weren’t making much sense to me…I have now seen the light! Awesome!

I am really wanting to try this intermittent fasting, my question is is it better to excercise before i go to work at 5 am and continue to fast until about 11 or fast then excercise after work about 430-5 pm, does that have any effect on the fasting?

Thanks for your info! I’m 49yo, active with a 13yo son and 11yo daughter. Looking for a healthy way to stay fit at my age and keep the energy BUT mostly I want to keep my skin, hair, weight and “horror”mones balanced and healthy. I felt your advice and insight was very clear and helpful.

I’d really love to hear your thoughts on the risk of infertility/hormonal imbalances as a result of IF? I feel like all the info I’ve ready completely varies!

Is it ok to still drink lemon water and/or green tea during the “fasting hours” of 7-11 am and 7-11 pm?

Hi Melissa, this is a very helpful guide! did you ever make a post about what specifcially to eat? That’s what I’m really having problems figuring out. Do I eat my regular macro goals everyday but within the 8 hours? Or do I need to change up my carbs/fat based on if I can work out that day? I have not had much luck finding anything explaining this on the internet but see it just briefly mentioned so that’s why I’m confused. I really just want to know if I keep my calorie goal and percentages of protein, fat and carbs the same as if I was not doing IF or if this needs to be switched up. Any info you can provide would be so so appreciated. Thanks so much!! (sorry if I just double posted this, wasn’t sure where to put it!)

I really enjoyed your blog and you look amazing. I have been working out for several years now, but I’ve never been able to cut the fat around my stomach. I just turned 49 in February and have only been doing the intermittent fasting for only a few days. I really hope this will give me the results I’m looking for.

What about Coffee or bullet proof coffee between that 7am to 11am fasting after you wake up? Or workout?

I am not loosing the way I should according to “The 8 hr diet” book. i don’t want to give up IF, as I feel i can really sustain this for life , please help me

my eating window is 9:30 am to 5:30 pm, the hunger pangs i experience in the nights make me cry.

Hi! Great article. I have been fasting usually 16-17 hours. I have had trouble in the past with low blood sugar. I have always liked to drink hot lemon juice, vinegar with the mother and a tsp of natural organic maple syrup. Am I messing up my fasting by drinking this in the morning?
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I just started intermeditant fasting yesterday. It went pretty well… my work schedule is odd so I’m fasting from midnight to 4pm. I eat during the 4pm to midnight window since I’m isually up super late (like now, it’s 2am). I barely had any hunger issues today while at work. I’m a chef and I’m around food ALL day long. There are all of the temptations you could possibly think of. But so far so good! Gotta try getting up earlier to get in a workout before work.

[…] is pretty much beneficial for everyone, but not absolutely everyone. After all, in my popular Guide to Intermittent Fasting for Women, I said that depending on what medical condition you’re dealing with, IF may not be right for […]

What are the Recomended foods?

Liked the article, then saw the awful tshirt and it ruined it for me

Is Bulletproof coffee allow within fasting period?

I fast after 9am. I’ve always been a morning eater.. lunch and dinner have always been “options” for me.. so easier for me to fast during the day and night as opposed to morning. But laely I have been incorporating 2 36 hour fasts during a week.. generally Friday and Mondays, I don’t eat. Water and occasionaly teas with full fat cream. This is working for me. Exercise is yoga s/ walking currently as winter I tend to take it easy, beacuase mind and body need to break. I listen to my body and just chill when I needs to. So winter for me is hibernation without the food and resting my body so that spring is “go time”.. in my 40’s for me exercise is about sustainability and health, not instagram worthy body pics.

I have been doing the 11-7 rule for 9 months and the most I have lost is 5 pounds using a good diet. Should I switch to 2-9pm??

You’re awesome. ALWAYS trying to find stuff on IF for women and there’s just no info out there. We need more. And meat over wheat T had me at hello. The wheat they are making now is bad bad stuff. I was just like you w chips & soda, and now am as well with fitness & recovery & health. Rock on babe! Xoxo

Does taking a probiotic pill break the fast?

Shouldn’t women fast for 14 hrs only?

Thanks!

Hi I started started the keto diet and and also did intermittent fasting also I do the 16/8 intermittent fasting and really actually like it.but I’ve really hit a snag and just wondering if anyone knows why I feel so worn out. Really feel so tired. I’m just loving the diet and am finding it so hard to exercise.as for one thing I haven’t done much exercise for a long time now. But feel as if I want to do something but even when it comes to me even walking. For long periods of time I’m now finding it really difficult as i get so out of breath and then have to find myself having to stop. To catch my breath. Especially if I am going up hills.and found that a few years ago I didn’t really notice this happening until I really started putting on all the extra weight. Until now and just feel so un fit. As before I had all the weight.and should I say yes I was kind of a big girl but I was fit.as I was running round as I was at work for a number of years but then one day. I had to stop my job and then started looking after my mum and dad.until my dad passed away.and then had to carry on looking after my mum. And then she passed away in 2015. And got all my mum and dads.things sorted out. And then I got my job back and I’m now faced with being so un fit.. and need to get fit so I can do my job. And not be feeling so exhausted.as I have got a heck of a lot of weight still to lose and need to lose.have you got any ideas or advice for me please.as what I can do as exercise please.as I’ve noticed I’ve got a dull ache in the bottom half of my spine and my back and sometimes when I’ve really pushed myself with the walking quite away. My legs feel shaky and I just find myself shaky and just feel extremely exhausted and have to sit down.and really need to exercise and I really need to get this weight off as it’s no good for my health.and want to lose it for myself. As I think I’ll be much more comfortable confident and and above all I’ll be so healthy as this was the first reason of me doing this diet.or should I say get rid of all this weight and get fit and get back to work as I’ve always worked and love my job.and don’t want to have to stay at home all day all because I’ve allowed myself to put all this weight on over a few years. Well it’s now just got to go and want some advice on what to do with this ache I’ve got in my back as some body that’s done this or is just doing this the same as me might know why I’m just aching in my back and feeling so tired and exhausted..as I’ve just started feeling like this.and wondered if this goes away from me as time goes by and what I need to do and and just wondered if some one could message me back please as the exercise is the next step for me.thank you. I look forward to hearing from you soon.bye take care