One of the best things I've experienced from my intermittent fasting experience is getting a handle on my sugar cravings. Not eating until noon was so freeing. It was beginning to help me not obsess about food all the time and not overeat, and I wanted to see how shortening my eating window to four hours would affect that.

If I could do that for one day, I could do it for one week, right? would be good for my work, life, and family schedule.

I decided to commit to one week on the Warrior Diet because I thought I'd be starving the entire time and wouldn't be able to stand another day. But by the sixth day, I was feeling so good, I wanted to keep going. I decided to commit to two weeks.

This surprised me, too — but no, it didn't. I felt a little hungry around 10 a. The first couple of days I felt a little hungry around noon, since that's when I was used to eating. But by the fourth day that passed, I instead noticed noon was the time of day when my mental clarity, focus, and energy really started kicking in.

One thing I noticed about the Warrior Diet compared to the plan is that eating eight hours a day still didn't entirely prevent me from overeating or wanting sugar, which always made me feel uncomfortable and bloated.

Eating just four hours a day made it impossible to overeat — my belly filled up so quickly and I felt so satisfied that I didn't want to eat more. Because I had no desire to overeat, I didn't feel bloated at night or in the morning.

Mentally speaking, before I started IF, I was always thinking about food, stressing about counting calories, feeling hungry and deprived, or feeling bad if I ate too much or ate calorie-dense foods that I didn't typically eat. Only eating in a four-hour window helped me think even less about food, and when I ate, I didn't feel restricted.

I wasn't expecting to feel such an emotional weight lifted, and this is what kept me inspired to stick with it. After 2 weeks on the Warrior Diet. rolled around, I felt a subtle sense of hunger but wasn't completely famished.

I craved mostly healthy foods and would eat a big tofu kale salad, leftovers, or a bowl of roasted tofu, sweet potatoes, and red peppers. I followed that with a banana, sometimes two, with raw almonds or cashews and plenty of water. Dinner was around 6 p.

If I felt like it, I'd eat a little dessert after. Sometimes it was some trail mix and fresh fruit, and sometimes it was a vegan brownie sundae. I ate what I craved, and as much as I wanted.

That was one of my favorite parts about the Warrior Diet. I never felt deprived. I was able to sit down to a huge plate of food and feel completely satisfied because my meal was over calories.

Another surprising benefit was that my taste buds became so sharp that even basic foods like fresh mango tasted mind-blowingly delicious. Yep, my a. CrossFit classes still happened. I felt the same as I always do, but this shortened eating window made for amazing deep sleep, so I felt super rested and energized.

I was still able to box jump and burpee as usual, and one day I even set a personal record for my squat snatch. One thing I noticed was that from not feeling bloated, I felt lighter, more agile, and more excited to move my body. Trying intermittent fasting wasn't for weight loss, so I was surprised that I lost about two pounds — I've been about the same weight for years!

This isn't major, especially since it's hard to tell from the before-and-after photos, but for me, it was all in my belly. I noticed zero bloating zero!

and a flatter tummy. I've also noticed more muscle definition in my arms and thighs, but that's not just from the past two weeks; it's because I've been doing intermittent fasting for over seven months now.

Someone expressed their concern to me that intermittent fasting is an eating disorder. I actually feel like it's the exact opposite.

I feel more in control and have a healthier relationship with food than I ever had. I finally know what true hunger feels like and am learning to listen to my body to eat when I'm hungry and — this is the most important thing — to stop when I'm full.

I'm no longer overeating or obsessing about food, and I feel more free from the thoughts about how eating affects my weight. I've been wondering this every single day over the past 14 days. Some days I'm like, "Hell, no!

But then on the other days I just felt so good; I felt like I wanted to keep this up. There are two main reasons I've contemplated sticking with the Warrior Diet. One, not being bloated has been huge for me, since I have been struggling with that since July It's made me so self-conscious and uncomfortable — on my worst days, I felt really depressed about it.

So to look down and see a flatter tummy and not feel pain makes me tear up; I'm so happy. And two, I can't get over how I'm not obsessing about food. Even when I begin my eating window, I'm not scarfing food down or craving sweets, and I'm not overeating.

And during my fasting window, I'm not daydreaming about the food I'll eat. It's slowly curing me of all my worries and detrimental body-negative thoughts. OK, so the one thing that was hard was the weekends.

I had my best friend visiting on the sixth day, and we went out for brunch. Sipping on coffee while she ate pancakes was tough — I'm not gonna lie. But that's what's cool about choosing IF as a lifestyle.

I can tailor it to meet my needs, which means sticking with it most days when it works with my schedule, and being open about not fasting when I want to.

I've loved the heightened benefits of the Warrior Diet versus the plan — I'm blown away that I haven't been famished all day and that I've been so energized. Can a daily dose of cinnamon help lower blood sugar? Search ×. See all results matching 'mub'.

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