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I Do Intermittent Fasting

oh my gooosh I need help! When I am fasting I am very alert and awake. This is a problem as I fast at night so it badly affects my sleep. I really do not want to eat at night because of all the health negatives.

So anyways my sleep is all messed up and then in the morning about 1 hour or so after I eat I am hit with a MASSIVE wave of sleepiness and cannot get anything done and pass out literally all day.

I am not functional this way!

I don't know what to do 😞 I am doing 14:10 fasting.

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SatanBurger · 36-40, F

I'm not a scientist so just my thoughts. I think the whole "eating at night is a bad thing" is a myth.

I work overnights and I intermittent fast. Well, I don't "fast" per se, I do the Bulletproof coffee thing (Bulletproof diet) with butter/coffee as my breakfast, then eat two meals.

However, I drink my butter coffee around 8 pm and then I eat my meals at 1 am and 3 am respectively lol. I have no choice but to do this since I work overnights.

You might actually do good ignoring the whole don't eat at night and just adjusting your eating pattern later during the day.

You don't have to eat at night but may do some good rearranging the time period closer to nightfall so you're well-fed and then can make it in the morning without something to eat.

The things you eat the night before are still digesting technically so you can go a bit longer perhaps.

I do think you can drink tea while fasting so that may help.