Intermittent fasting timing

[Ro11Tide]

Good evening all,

I was hoping to get some Insite on my intermittent fasting timing. I have currently cutting on about 2,000 calories a day and carb cycling between no carb, medium carb and high carb days. I work from 8-5 everyday so I enjoy working out after work. I simply am not a morning person and have terrible workouts in the morning. When I started fasting, my eating window was from 2 pm until 8 pm which I finished eating right after my workout. This schedule sucked because I was starving the morning at work and kept thinking about food every morning until I ate. I also want to shorten my eating window.

So I was wondering, if I changed my eating window from 10 am until 2 pm everyday and continued to work out after work, would this ruin my muscle mass? I would basically not eat for 11 hours after I worked out. I have tried it for the past 2 days with the 10-2 eating window and have loved it so much more. It's easier for me not to eat at night then in the morning. I was just wondering if it's bad to fast that long after workout. I would get around 170g of protein from 10-2 during my window. Also, I drink 1 and a half scoops of non calorie BCAA after my workout, therefore not breaking my fast. Thanks in advance! So will eating my first meal at 10 am the next day after my workout be a problem?

[gbullock32]

How about this... eat when you want?

[beisner44]

drinking BCAA's does break your fast.

What if you workout before work this way your eating window is after your workout to give your muscles protein

.....or just eat whenever you want like he said

[Caezar07]

Typically skipping breakfast helps an insulin sensitive person avoid the lunch hunger cravings, but waiting until 2pm might be pushing it.

Why not just widen your eating window to 11am to 8pm so that you're essentially just skipping breakfast. Or you could just not intermittent fast.

Personally, when I get deep into a cutting phase, I only eat protein and black coffee in the morning, and then just fill out the rest of my macros from there starting at lunch. Also, instead of high/medium/low carb days, I just eat about 200 calories less on my off days.