r/intermittentfasting

I know this isn’t perfect yet, but this is all part of my progress.

Let me introduce myself: I’m a 34-year-old man, 5'5" tall. My starting weight was 209 lbs, and I’m currently at 180 lbs. I work 12 hours every day and spend 1 hour at the gym.

My diet is simple. I completely stopped consuming sugar, including foods with hidden sugars such as rice, bread, and all sugary drinks. I control my calorie intake, focusing mainly on a small amount of vegetables and meat, along with 4 boiled eggs every day.

And I’ll come back again later once I’ve achieved my ideal body.

Hey folks! A while back I released "Fasting Center", an app that calculates weight loss for extended fasts - total weight loss as well as fat, water/glycogen, gut content, and protein loss, projected day by day. A few people wanted to track their fasts against those projections, so v2 is out and it's now a full fasting tracker - both for IF and extended fasting. It includes

• Fast timer with fasting stages on the ring
• Log for fasts and biometrics (weight, body fat, waist), with notes and mood
• The calculator is now connected to your real data - projected vs actual weight loss, daily breakdown by tissue type
• Health Connect sync

It's completely free and ad free. No paywall, no subscription. I think paying to see your own past fasts is simply wrong ☺️

A few of you are already using it and sent me feedback - thank you! I read everything and I ship fixes fast. If something annoys you or something is missing, tell me here or in the app.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6780227473
Android version is coming soon.

Ok guys, I am struggling this past week after the vacation. Went there in my perfect shape, returned +5 kilos. Am a little bit ashamed to admit, but I have weak discipline ever since… A screenshot is from my third attempt to get back into it. Two previous failed.

Any bulletproof tips on how to get back into the fasting routine?

Hey folks! A new version of the Fasting Center app just went live on both app stores. Everything below is already in the app - update and it's yours. Most of it came straight from your comments and DMs on the last two posts

• Import from Easy Fast - the most requested feature so far, bring over your full history in Settings.
• Export to Excel - download all your data anytime as a spreadsheet.
• Widget options (iOS) - edit Widget now offers time elapsed, time left, % elapsed, or % left.
• Blood glucose in mg/dL or mmol/L - pick your unit in Settings.
• Fast syncs across devices - start on one device, see and stop it on another.
• Edit the end time when ending a fast - set the real time you started eating, right on the end screen.
• Your plan sticks - finish a 19:5 and it stays selected for next time.
• More Dashboard stats - fasting-hours chart with your goal line, plus tap-to-switch summary tiles.
• Others - steps tracking (iOS), a reorganized Dashboard, and durations as "2d 3h" or "51h" - your choice.

Still free, no ads, no paywall, no subscription 😊

Everything above is live today - just update the app. A few more of your requests are queued for the next version. If there's something you wish your fasting app did, tell me in the comments or DM me. Happy fasting!

So it begins. Next month I do a 72 hour seasonal fast per my protocol. #fnflife

Took a “last picture with this car, I’ll miss it” photo yesterday and realized I had a very similar one from 7 years ago.

About 50 kg between the two, with intermittent fasting being a huge part of how I got there.

Looking back at old pictures still feels a little surreal sometimes.

Safe to say it’s been a pretty eventful 7 years in more ways than one lol.

Drylendar is currently available on iOS and will on Android by the end of the year!

https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/alcohol-tracker-drylendar/id6756030804?l=en-GB

Started at 288lbs/130kg —> now at 217lbs/98kg

I started going to the gym only 3 weeks ago because my anxiety, depression, and intense body dysmorphia prevented me from going from day one of my journey. I don’t regret taking my time but I gotta admit I’d probably have had a more satisfying transformation if I started lifting weights earlier haha.

I also don’t have nearly as much loose skin as I thought I would (granted I still have a lot of fat to lose so the loose skin will probably become more noticeable by then). Also, my handles are stubborn asf but apparently they’re usually the last area of the body to lose fat during weightloss…

I hope this can motivate at least one person, just like I was motivated by all the progress pics in this sub at the beginning of my journey last year.

If you have questions feel free to ask :)

(P.S. Yes, this is the same T-shirt in the background. I always wear the same 3 T-shirts in rotation because I’m too anxious to go shopping for now. I’m working on it don’t worry 😂)

EDIT: 1rst pic is from march 2025, 2nd pic is from October 2025 and 3rd pic is from august 2026

Hi everyone,

I’ve been getting a lot of inspiration from this community since starting my fasting journey, and now that I’ve started building a fasting app, I wantd to give something back. I’d like to offer people from this community lifetime access to the premium features for free when the app launches, while also being open to your feedback so I can adapt and fine-tune the app around things that may be important to you.

I’ll share more details about the app below, but first, what was the story behind all this, and what problems am I trying to solve?

A few months ago, I was about to start fasting, inspired initially by friends and people around me. However, I noticed that many of them, even after experiencing benefits and getting significant results, eventually stopped because fasting no longer fit their lifestyle, whether because of exercise timing, social dinners, changing jobs, travel, or other transitions in life.

I didn’t want to go through the same cycle, and I also wanted to encourage them to keep going, since they were the ones who inspired me to start fasting in the first place.

So I joined communities like this one and started reading and analyzing people’s experiences to better understand how an IF plan could be adapted to someone’s actual lifestyle instead of forcing their lifestyle to revolve around fasting. Across many testimonials, I kept seeing the same problem my friends had maintaining fasting becomes difficult when life changes.

At the same time, I came to another frustration. Popular fasting apps such as Zero, Easy Fast, and Fastic have increasingly moved features behind paid plans or introduced more ads, pop-ups, and interruptions into the normal user experience.

That led me to build something around two core problems- the lack of an app that helps create a more personalized fasting plan based on your lifestyle and previous fasting experience, and the lack of a clean fasting experience that does not constantly push users through paywalls, ads, and interruptions.

Most importantly, I wanted to give something back to the people who inspired me to do this, including my friends and communities on Reddit such as this one, r/fasting, and r/OMAD. That is why I want to offer community members lifetime access to the premium features for free.

One important note- after learning more about how fasting considerations can differ between men and women, the version I’m currently building is specifically designed around men and male physiology.

Nevertheless, I hope that in the future I will potentially put time into building one around women, taking into account that such an app needs to consider many additional variables (hormones, cycle, menopause if happening, etc.) in order to give the right fasting recommendation and adapt the app.

You can find more information about the project and the features already planned on the first link bellow.

.https://fastinghabits.com/

Through the link below, you can also join the waitlist, which will give you access to the lifetime-free premium offer when the app becomes available. Not all of the features presented on the app website will be free for the general audience when the app will be launched on app/play store.

https://tally.so/r/Me8a98

One thing I found imprtant to share is that I unfortunately can’t promise unlimited free premium accounts forever. Once the app reaches a certain number of users commig from the community, hosting, infrastructure, and maintenance costs will become more significant on my side. I’ll therefore make as many lifetime-free premium spots available to people joining through this community waitlist as I reasonably can, but I can’t guarantee that the offer will remain open indefinitely.

And finally, I’d genuinely appreciate your feedback in the comments aeound the app and limitations you come across the others apps you have been usinf. That feedback can directly help fine tuning the app and bringing it even closer to solving problems of the community

I've been doing, IF pretty consistently for the better part of a year at this point and the progress is just so slow. It's sapping my motivation. Not only because I'm not getting to where I want to be but also because at this point it's beginning to feel like 5:2 with just a couple of weeks off per year will end up as my long-term maintenance regime.

The chart show my near daily weigh ins since October. The white portions of the chart are where I was doing IF and the blue bits, where I had a week off here and there. I did ADF from October to Christmas and lost maybe 4kilos. I didn't go mad at Christmas at all but, over less than two weeks, almost all of it came back.

I didn't panic. Lots of salty food over Christmas could have meant a good deal of water weight. It'll all come off as fast as it went on, I thought but no. I did 5:2 from January to the end of June and it was basically maintenance for three months. I did finally lose some weight April to May and then I went on holiday for a week. I missed two fasts, I did not go crazy with food or booze and again, my weight went up - not so much this time. But, when I got back, I carried on with 5:2 and now I was actually gaining weight. Another short trip, two fasts skipped another spike in weight and another really slow loss.

As you can see, I started off fluctuating between 113 and 110kg, after all this, I'm not bouncing between 108 and 105kg. Five kilos after the better part of a year.

Last week, my wife and daughter were away so I basically went nuts with the exercise. I burned 6,000 calories during workouts in five days. I still did my fasts and I had dental surgery so I didn't eat a whole lot on two further days. That's 6,000 cals of training plus 5,000 cals of fasting plus maybe a deficit of 1,000cals on the two days post dentist and an early morning sauna. 12,000 calories of deficit. Last week, I averaged 0.7kg down relative to the previous week and this week I'm rebounding...

I am a big guy (6'4" or 1.93m) my BMR is 2,550cals/day. The scale in the gym says 18% body fat, the one at home says 26%. And, whilst I don't count my calories, I never eat junk food and all my meals are home cooked (by me). I typically eat a bowl of cereal or two slices of toast for breakfast and rarely eat more than 1,000 calories for lunch on feeding days.

I work out once or twice a week - but I go pretty hard when I do (750-1,000cals per session on the rower)

I feel like I ought to be getting better results than I am.

What are my weaknesses?

I eat dinner early but that leaves me hungry later so I do often have a bit of cheese and a cracker or two late at night. I might also have a late night beer once or twice a week. Or a bottle of wine spread over a couple of nights.

My sleep isn't good - although I am trying (when I go to bed early, I just wake up early)

Stress. I get it, it's not helping but, again, quite hard to fix.

I'm not calorie counting - not counting calories was, for me, the entire point of IF.

What am I trying?

Right now, the new thing I'm adding is fibre - 15g of psyllium husk/day. It's having some effects but it's too soon to say whether boosting weight loss will be one of them.

Can anyone think of anything I'm missing that might explain these, frankly disappointing, results?

Reading around, all the suggestions I can see are: count calories on feeding days (as I say, I hate counting calories - I did IF to avoid it) have a longer fast or have a break. I haven't done any longer fasts but, as you can see, I have had a couple of breaks and it hasn't worked.

Anyone have any other ideas?

Switched to salads to make my life easier and teach myself to *love* them. It's not that I hate salads of vegetables, but if it was up to me I'd just eat rice, osobuco and beans every single day without getting tired. I get hyperfixated on certain foods and textures, which is honestly a big problem for me. I can tolerate chicken and seafood (barely), but beef is just my absolute favorite protein.

Some adjustments need to be made regarding the size of the salads tho, since I'm struggling to eat it all in one sitting. I will be trying different combinations and other type of salads too, but so far I'm very satisfied and feel like I could stick to this until it becomes second nature.