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.

I also do 16:8 but I eat lunch and dinner - could that be an option? Lunch at 12/12:30 and then dinner 6-7? I would just have a peppermint tea at breakfast. I find this way no one cares but I’d get a pot of hassle if I didn’t ever eat lunch 🤣

The difficulty with this for me is that on holiday I can’t be as in control of eating times and I generally end up having to fit in with the group plans. So if everyone else has had a big breakfast, they might not be ready to eat at 12/12h30, or you might end up on a trip or activity that runs late. I really don’t like getting hangry on holidays! So I end up eating breakfast to make sure I’m on the same timetable as everyone else.

I just can’t get me head around having breakfast at 8 am on holiday! How young are your children?

I think pushing the whole window back so you have your first meal at lunchtime and then have your dinner later (5.30 dinner would also ruin a holiday for me). Then you’re doing
much the same as at home.

I do 16:8 and have for a few years. I just skip it on holidays, it is literally a handful of days a year

They are 10 and 13. They wake between 7 and 8 so breakfast will be thereafter i suppose. The teenager would stay in bed longer for sure but if we have things to do like make it to breakfast and get going on our day then it’s on we go.

I'd drop the eating window restriction while on holiday. It's a faff for you & so so boring for everyone else.