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How to manage hotel breakfasts abroad while doing 16:8 fasting

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Kitchenbattle · 19/06/2026 08:07

Posting here for traffic. Need a bit of advice and/or perspective perhaps. I have started a new way of eating (I hate the term diet) and that involves 16:8 intermittent fasting. My question is I’m due to go abroad a few times this summer. And breakfast is included in the hotel and I will be with my family. I don’t normally eat my first meal until 10. How will I manage this? I don’t want to eat breakfast too early. Should I just take what I can from the breakfast buffet put it in a Tupperware and eat at 10. I also am avoiding carbs as as much as I can. And I am coeliac, so I can’t just go have a croissant and I won’t want to either. So I’ll need protein etc. Anyone else in the same situation who can give some advice?

we will normally have dinner around 5:30 six so that’s not a problem really. It’s just breakfast.

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Loulou4022 · 19/06/2026 08:12

I’d just pause the fasting and enjoy your holiday. If you’re going with family, eating will be a social thing and you don’t want to miss that or just be sat there with a glass of water looking glum!

youplonkerrodney · 19/06/2026 08:12

How early are you planning on having breakfast?
If you can eat at 9 I would make an exception and do 15:9 while on holiday tbh, it won’t make that much difference.

The tupperware idea could work if you’re subtle but the hotel will stop you if they think you’re making a packed lunch from the breakfast bar.

Overthebow · 19/06/2026 08:11

Find out when the hotel breakfast finishes, it might not be until 10 anyway in which case you could just go a few minutes before and grab a plate of food. Or get some fruit if you’re going earlier and have that at 10 and wait for lunch?

Jellybunny98 · 19/06/2026 08:11

My honest advice OP is that these are family holidays, not your every day life, so you do not need to be so regimented. If you can’t just relax and enjoy your time with your family on holiday without thinking about a diet that would be really sad. You can get right back to it when you get home but honestly for your holiday just enjoy the time.

SinuousTendrils · 19/06/2026 08:10

If it were me, I'd skip the new way of eating while in holiday. Life's too short.
I can't imagine a couple of weeks missing a couple of hours of fasting is going to have a significant impact.

BeardOToots · 19/06/2026 08:10

Avoiding carbs at a hotel buffet breakfast will be very easy. If I were you I’d relax your rules whilst on holiday, have breakfast with your family, and try to enjoy yourself!