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

[Kitchenbattle]

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.

Yeah, I never have carbs at my first meal. I can’t have them much at all so it’s protein, fats and fruit veg with obviously as little carbs in them as possible. For my dinner I can stomach them a bit more.

I don’t think I’m the one whose uncomfortable given how defensive you are towards anyone who disagrees with you 😂

Because I don’t need people to agree me about how I’m eating, I just wanted some suggestions. I’m not getting defensive, it’s just that there’s no need to use the word red flag like there’s something wrong with me, everybody is different.

People are allowed to see your behaviour in way that you don’t.

OK, @tiramisugelato I’m not arguing with you. You see what you want to see. That’s fine.

Why are you dieting on holiday? Surely holidays are the perfect time to unwind and not think about restrictions like that!

I’d be more annoyed having to eat my dinner at 1730 - lunchtime is barely over by then?! Why so early? Are restaurants even open at that time?

Thanks for the permission 😂

Because I don’t see you just dieting I just see it as the way I eat. I’m not going to eat if I’m not hungry.

Because that’s when we eat dinner, we always eat dinner at that time. Unless we’ve been invited out to a restaurant for something we have to go to and it’s at a ridiculous time like 7/7:30

Could you let you husband do breakfast with your kids.. then at or around 10 / 11.. could you have a tin of sardines and an avocado.. and then a salad with the family at lunch time?

I also IF and prefer a low carb approach so in your situation I would have breakfast with the family but just just have my normal black coffee. If I really thought I was going to get hungry and wanted something from the buffet to eat later I would grab a
boiled egg, cheese perhaps some cold meat. I would then eat lunch/dinner as normal - just avoiding carbs which is easy enough. I don’t see it as dieting - I have found a way of eating that makes me feel good, gives me the right energy - why wouldn’t I want to feel like that on holiday?

Why do you have to eat breakfast? Just go and sit with them and have a cup of tea. Start your eating window later and then you can have dinner a little later too

@Velocity thank you! Yes! I this exactly. feel great tbh and I’m not going to drop it all on holiday I want to feel great then too

Well, I don’t have to eat breakfast. I don’t technically eat breakfast I eat my first meal at 10 o’clock.

PS. I resonate with everything you explained...

What’s ridiculous about eating at 1930? That’s the earlier side of normal. Even my five year old doesn’t eat that early!!

It’s just a ridiculous time for us. We go to bed at 9:30 most nights 🤣

16:8 works for me when at home but I take a break on holidays, it just doesn't really fit in with holiday vibes (my eating window is 12-8pm)

Takes my body a while to get back into 16:8 when I get home though 🙄

I would relax it and try and strike a happy medium by trying to impose your usual regime in a different environment which means not eating and enjoying food as a family, and blowing all the hard work you are proud of.

Just eat well at normal times and get back on the 16:8 when you are back home.

You have the power to decide to restart as soon as you come home.

Why not have your breakfast at 9 with everyone and then start your fast a hour earlier in the evening u will just push your 16/8 a hour earlier than normal

If you’re fasting a bit of fruit is the worst thing to have as an ‘early’ breakfast as it will break the fast and spike your blood sugar.

Tea / coffee at breakfast then eat lunch and dinner with family. 2 meals with a large gap between them.

Because then I’m forcing everyone to have dinner at or before 5. 😭

Is it a big deal if you don't eat breakfast with everyone else? I skipped breakfast on holiday in March, it was fine.

But I also have a "holiday diet" that serves me well:

1 day no meat/cheese
1 day no alcohol
1 day no meat/cheese/alcohol
1 day free choice

That and swimming 1h a day usually keeps me in check over a week or two.