“Should you do fasting if you’re perimenopausal or going through the menopause?
I’ve read that you shouldn’t and it’s not recommended”
Now, the key thing is context here.
There are many types of fasting.
There’s a 24 hour fast.
Are we talking 48 hour fast?
Or are we talking just 16 / 8 where you fast for 16 hours and eat for 8 hours (not the whole 8 hours, of course)?
Are we talking 5:2 diet?
Are we talking just delaying breakfast by two hours as technically that is a fast?
AKA
‘Break the fast’ means breakfast. So it could be that, are we talking about just delaying your breakfast by two hours?
I mean, having it at 10am instead of 8am or 11am instead of 7am is a fast.
Remember in the research, breakfast is often defined as anything before 11 a.m.
So the key thing is context for you.
If you say, skip breakfast and have breakfast a little bit later, does it make you more full up?
What’s your energy like? Are your cravings more in control?
Do you feel like you have more calories for later, which suits your lifestyle?
Or are you someone who binges, restricts, binges, and then just gets into this cycle?
Maybe breakfast is better for you in that case.
If your hunger levels, your energy is good and it suits your lifestyle, well, give it a try.
If it works for you, that’s the key thing.
It might be for the majority of people it doesn’t, but remember it’s always like a bell curve. For some people, there’ll be outliers and for some people it works, some people it doesn’t. That’s the key thing.
Test it
We have many ladies who have found fasting the best thing for them as it means less restriction on an evening.
However, for others, breakfast has meant they are more in control on an evening
And feel more in control of a binge…
Do you fast?
Matt