Originally Posted by gwynne2

Now, I'm going to go out on a limb and say something I've refrained from mentioning till now: I think that I lose better if I *don't* push my feed window shorter than 5-6 hours. More than that--and this may be all in my head so please take it with a grain of salt--and I feel like my body definitely begins to 'shut down' a bit and to tries to conserve. I don't think, say, 23/1 type IF would work for me at all. (I could be wrong--I haven't tried that hard to push it more than a few times. I just know that on my whoosh weeks, I am consistently eating what amounts to two meals in 5-6 hours.) Now, if I made my feed window longer, I know it wouldn't take long before I was constantly planning the next meal in my head.

Did I mention--anecdotal only, and grain of salt?

I guess, like everything, it's about balance, and I've struck one here that allows me to lose slowly but acceptably (a pound and change per week, average) while not obsessing over food.