MCT oil and IF

(Jessica Lavoy) #1

So I am one month in as of Monday and 18 pounds down! feeling so much better energy is back nausea is gone and I’ve got a little better handle on what I can and cannot eat. Working out the kinks on intermittent fasting and just recently learned the proper way to break a fast to burn fat is with MCT oil. so I’ve got some I ordered from perfect keto and I am honestly scared to use it because I know it can cause belly issues and that is my biggest issue with my health problems (the postinfectious IBS) so I’m wondering with breaking a fast with MCT oil what can I mix it with to help ease any gastric side effects. keeping in mind I do not do good at all with vegetables. Thank you

#2

I’ve never heard that. I’d be worried to break a fast with just MCT oil too. Coconut oil would be a little gentler I think. I think for IF you can pretty much just eat whatever when you are ready. It’s the long extended fasts that you have to be a little more cautious about.

Many people do one meal a day (OMAD), and they don’t do anything special to break their fast except eat their meal.

(CharleyD) #3

True.

(Jessica Lavoy) #4

Yeah I’ve seen that too, I don’t have any clue how people could only eat one meal a day LOL I’m doing three smaller meals 1PM 5 PM 9PM I don’t go to bed till midnight or 1 AM (need some mommy alone time LOL) I’m going to have to rearrange my schedule pretty soon with school starting going to have to go to bed earlier and get up earlier so I’ll have to adjust my schedule by a couple hours

(CharleyD) #5

It doesn’t all have to happen at once. 16:8 is a good start, then 18:6, then 20:4, as you shrink your feeding window, then you just find yourself bringing in a huge lunch to work and that’s that.

When you become used to OMAD it’s almost a relief to only feed once a day. While it may take a while, for me upwards of an hour, to consume all your day’s food in one sitting, you may begin to appreciate the extra time you’ve given yourself over the rest of the day.

(Drew Schmidt) #6

I’m with you on this. I started on Keto and thought I needed to eat. Then I just wasn’t hungry. So I started to skip breakfast. And then started to get hungry around 2 or 3 and would sometimes eat something small and then something for dinner. So I sort of naturally ended up in something close to 20:4.

At this point I could probably do one meal and I wouldn’t even realize it. I actually pondered it today. It was close to 2:00 in the afternoon and I had eaten at 6:00 pm yesterday. I wasn’t super hungry and pondered waiting till dinner but gave in to my habit (not urge or hunger) to eat.

(Jessica Lavoy) #7

Is this something that I have to eventually work up to? or is it optional and personal preference?

#8

It optional and personal preference. It’s hard to fathom not wanting to eat all day when your used to eating 3 meals plus maybe snacks. I think most people who come to a IF feeding window just realize slowly that they are not hungry and it evolves from there.

It is not required though and there shouldn’t be anyone telling you to force it. Yes it may be beneficial down the road . . . Or it may not be something your interested in at all. Its hard to predict the changes you will feel on this journey. I bet you’ll be pleasantly surprised along the way.

(Taleisha Collins) #9

Old habits are the hardest to break
My husband has been on Keto for a few months now, and still hasn’t moved into a OMAD pattern, but that is mostly due to habit (IMO) - good old mid-western boy use to eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner at 6:00 when mom put it on the table, and you ate what she gave you!

I on the other hand adapted quickly to eating OMAD, as that was my habit before keto. But, I am “easy keto” and he is “strict keto” … lol , so many different ways to do this WOE “right”. It’s like the best thing in the world. I keep carbs low, cut all sugar and eat when I want. He watches his numbers like a hawk, eats to his macros, and both of us are losing weight (and inches) more than any time in the past.

The key is to eat to your body needs, rather than following some dogmatic regiment. Eating to someone else’s standards is how most of us got to where we are :wink:

(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja ) #10

I would not break a fast with MCT Oil.
I am interested to know where you read that?

(Jessica Lavoy) #11

Thomas delauer mentions it for intermittent fasting to lose weight. He’s on Facebook YouTube and Instagram. my boyfriend’s been following him along time he’s lost hundred pounds doing keto and intermittent fasting and build a lot of muscle.

(CharleyD) #12

That is the biggest, strongest, most massive, habit to break.

Even doing this almost two years, there’s still the ghosts of breakfast and dinner that occasionally chatter at me to appease them.

(Taleisha Collins) #13

I almost gave in to chicken fingers and white gravy (extra gravy) from Dairy Queen tonight … the struggle is REAL … keep on!