Last week, I listened to Dr. Aviva Romm’s On Health podcast episode on intermittent fasting and time-restricted eating (which she refers to as time-based eating). On the podcast, she talks about how helpful she has found time-based eating to be for her female clients. Many years ago, I tried time-based eating as part of a “body composition challenge” being offered at my crossfit gym, and I found it to be pretty horrible for me! If I recall correctly, I think I started with 12 hours of fasting with a 12-hour feeding window (this is a VERY liberal feeding window for this kind of fasting) or perhaps it was 14 fasting, 10 eating. I’m not sure! In either case, it was not as long of a fasting period as is generally recommended, and it was pure torture for me. As I was anxiously awaiting the start of my feeding window, I was full-on “hangry” and couldn’t focus on anything.