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Intermittent fasting / 16:8
Also known as
16:8 · time restricted eating · TRE · IF · eating window · fasting window
Community talk. May contain inaccuracies. Not medical or health advice. No result or safety is promised.
In brief
Intermittent fasting / 16:8 means keeping daily meals inside a chosen clock window such as sixteen hours off and eight hours on.
The common picture
A window, not a food list16:8 is hours. The plate inside the window is a different fight.
Coffee still counts as ‘fasting’ in most logsBlack coffee / tea / water. Cream wars start here.
Skip breakfast or skip late dinnerTwo common clocks.
Not a compoundNo vial. Kitchen clock.
Community notes describe skipping breakfast or late dinner, drinking unsweetened coffee outside the window, and arguing whether calories still explain the result. It is a kitchen clock, not a compound card.
Good to know. History of disordered eating, pregnancy, diabetes meds, fainting. This is a kitchen clock, not a protocol or a Research vial.
What people say
- The job: eat inside a daily window and stop grazing at night.
- r/intermittentfasting is 16:8 screenshots and ‘does coffee break it.’
- Skeptics: calories still count; the window is an appetite tool.
- Not a medical fast. Diabetes meds and fainting are a clinician.
How it may feel
- Week one: hungry at the old breakfast hour, then it often quiets.
How people do it
- Pick 12–8 or 10–6 and keep it a week before you judge.
- Water, black coffee, unsweetened tea outside the window is the usual rule.
Amounts people use
- 16 hours ‘off,’ 8 hours on is the named split.
- Some run 14:10 first.
How people keep it
- A calendar window beats a perfect day.
How long
- Weeks as an experiment, not a forever vow on night three.
The longer notes
- A clock, not a religion: The object is the eating window people can actually keep. Calories and protein still show up in the honest threads.
Good to know
- Disordered-eating history, pregnancy, insulin: clinician.