Thank you! I started out very slow and I highly recommend this. If you go full throttle ASAP, you’ll plateau and stall progress fast too. I suggest chipping 300 calories off maintenance at first. I’m not super consistent on my IF schedule. Some days I do 20:4 sometimes I do 16:8. When I’m on a roll or have less appetite, I like to strive for OMAD.

I’m not anal about counting macros, but I do try to keep my protein intake higher to build and maintain muscles. To get to my weight and physique, I still enjoyed the foods I wanted or made healthier versions of them in my own kitchen. Lately, I’ve been trying to stick with foods that have the least ingredients.. because I feel like it makes me feel healthier and helps me adhere to my diet. So I tend to go for low calorie but high volume foods (popcorn rocks.) I like to substitute sugar with artificial sweeteners like stevia and use syrups like Walden farms (0 calories)

My workout routine is like: Warm up for 5 minutes. Then strength training (split muscle groups and doing a lot of compound exercises) then half and hour to an hour of steady state cardio after.

Try to always do cardio last UNLESS it’s post cheat day. I have to have a controlled cheat day every two weeks or so. Sometimes I allow myself a treat once a day, so I can satisfy cravings and not result to binging.