I did VERY well with the paleo diet, going from 226lbs to 170lbs...and then, you know, I got naughty...and over time went back up to 212lb.

I started paleo again, but was not losing much weight at all. I realized I was just eating too damn much food.

I began eating only one meal a day, early in the evening. I was AMAZED at how quickly my body adapted to this WOE. I do get stomach grumblies in the morning, but not APPETITE pangs...as long as I only eat paleo. If I introduce any carbs (other than those found in non-starchy vegetables) my appetite runs away with me and I am miserable.

During the day, M to F, I am very busy, and it is easy to ignore the stomach rumblies...which eventually go away by around noon. I drink LOTS of water. My meal in the early evening is not huge...I don't feel the need to pig out...I eat probably the same amount that I always would have eaten, even if I had been eating throughout the day.

I am DELIGHTED with my weight loss, which is around 1 kg per week. When my TOM rolls around, all weight loss stops, and in fact I will gain, despite my IF.

Weekends have been much harder for me, because I am not as busy, so I eat two meals per day on weekends. I really look forward to my Saturday and Sunday bacon and eggs in the AM!

The ONLY problem I have encountered is muscle cramping in the night. I read that we lose a lot of electrolytes, esp. potassium, when we do IF, so I started taking both a magnesium and a potassium supplement morning and night. That has taken care of the cramps, UNTIL last night, when I got a doozy of a cramp in my left foot (it's ALWAYS the left foot or calf...what's up with that?) I am now going to add a calcium supplement.

I wanted to post this to encourage anyone who has seen a stall in their weight loss (assuming, of course, that you want to lose weight), and to say that this has really, REALLY worked for me. I am not starving, I do not feel deprived, I feel TERRIFIC during the day...as other IF'ers have posted, we seem to experience much more clarity in our senses.

If anyone has any advice to offer me re the muscle cramps and mineral/electrolyte supplements, I would be delighted to read them. Happy IF'ing everyone!