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

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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.

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!

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.

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.

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?

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.

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!

I think you're better off having a healthy breakfast with your family - such as yoghurt and fruit, or cold lean meat if it's offered - than trying to fill a Tupperware box with things that, by their portable nature, are likely to be less healthy,

Enjoying family comes first on holiday surely

This. Not being able to relax your way of eating on holiday seems problematic to me.

Honestly, for a holiday I’d accept that my fast would be more like 14:10 and possibly slow down weight loss a bit. Keep on avoiding the carbs, keep active, drink plenty of water and you will be ok. I usually lose weight on holiday eating 3 meals a day because I eat protein breakfast (Greek yoghurt, eggs, maybe a bit of cheese), salad lunch and grilled fish with veg or salad for dinner. I do have a glass of dry wine with dinner but otherwise drink loads of water, and I do have a bit of carb at dinner but never eat the full portion, just a few chips or spoonful of rice as the protein in fish is so filling.

Go half an hour before breakfast finishes. Adjust your IF fasting times.
Breakfast buffets are not takeaways.

Posters are right just eat with your i don't think a hourish early is going to make that much difference, also there might be thread on here about a woman and her tupperware of buffet 😀

I speak as someone with an ED in the family, so my view might be a bit skewed

please have fun eating breakfast with your kids

If you're going to drip feed a diagnosed health problem which means you have to lose weight then what I'm about to say is irrelevant.

But otherwise, really?! Life is for living. Holidays are there for enjoyment. Fannying around with diets and tupperware on holiday is really sad. You should be planning days out, packing suncream, researching books, dreaming of chilling out and spending quality time with your loved ones, not worrying and writing mumsnet threads about what time breakfast will be. Chill out. Forget about your diet. Have a fantastic holiday!

Fasting on holiday? Well, if you must do it then you must. There's generally gf options on a hotel buffet like yoghurt and fruit that you can eat with your family for breakfast and salads or carb light options at dinner.

As you won't have a set routine on holiday concentrate on healthy eating rather than fasting - and don't panic if you fall off the wagon.

I’ve never been to a hotel outside the uk that stops breakfast before 10am.

Even if it did would you doing you ate at 9:50am instead of 10:30?

Seriously? Drop the diet for a week

Hotel breakfasts will have sausages,bacon. and eggs deli meat etc etc so you can definitely avoid carbs.

I fast every day for at least 17 hours (I don’t call it that I just don’t eat breakfast and have a late lunch). But on holiday, I always eat breakfast. I don’t like carbs much, so it’s easy to stick to protein.

Life is too short to spend your holiday stressing about not eating til 10am. Does it really matter if you eat a high protein healthy breakfast at 9 instead of 10?

Surely, the bigger problem is dinner. You will have to stop eating at 6pm and no one has dinner before 8pm in Europe. Will you not go out with them? Sit there and eat nothing? Or you could just have a coffee at breakfast and start with your first meal at 12?

Personally, I’d just eat healthily and enjoy your holiday not stressing about food.

Last hotel I was in had a gluten free area so had bread,rolls and a cereal.

Go to breakfast half an hour before it finishes. Have eggs, cheese, cold meats, fruit, salad etc. Don't have pastries, donuts or too much toast.

Have a decent breakfast and you probably won't want much lunch, especially if you're having dinner at 5.30/6 pm.

I don't follow any particular way of eating and on holiday we normally have breakfast at about 9.30, lunch at around 3 pm and then I just have something light in the evening although DP will usually have a proper dinner.

Our bodies are not robots. It’s not going to react by not being exact to the timings.

I intermittent fast (usually 18/6) and I'm also gluten intolerant I have found it helps my health condition.
When on holiday I join for breakfast and will eat if I want but I stick to protein so eggs usually and I don't force it if I don't and will just have black coffee.

Most buffets have hard boiled eggs if you do want to take something. I also take nakd bars on holiday with me.

This is what I was going to say, most places you’ll struggle to find dinner service before 7.30 and if you are staying in an all inclusive I’ve never seen food before 6.30 on an evening. If you did want to stick to 16:8 fasting you’d probably have to skip breakfast and go straight to lunch at 12.