Reducing fat intake

I also IF, midday to 8pm is my window for food, before then is water or black coffee, and evenings water or tea, you soon adapt. Took about a week for my body to unlearn "food happens at 9am".

I must admit I've been getting up late recently and not eating anything till about midday. I had 109g of protein today and was within my calorie maximum. I must admit, all that protein really did help fill me up and take away cravings and the protein bread you recommended is great, it did help to make me less hungry.
 
Going to say it again, I reckon you're doing this backwards. Stop counting cals, start counting carbs and meal timings and the rest leads naturally. Calorie counting can come later once you get the broad strokes down, but doing so at first is a recipe for disaster IMO. The only reason I'd count cals at this stage is to make sure I'm actually getting enough calories while making the other changes.

You need to recognise that the daily hunger isn't something that has to happen. It's not caused by a lack of, or even a requirement for food, it's caused by a relatively simple mechanism that our modern diet completely wrecks. Google ghrelin and insulin and you'll start down that road. The decisions you're making now are somewhat reinforcing the problem. Reduced fat cheese? Get it in the bin my dude. You *want* the fat. If you like coffee, stick a tablespoon or two of double cream in that first morning badboy and you will kiss goodbye to morning hunger forever while reaping the benefits of IF. Yeah, it's 100-250kcals but so what? It's zero carb, so causes next to no hormonal response, which is what you want to be worrying about most IMO.

Well I thought the dieting I've been doing since last Thursday was a good thing? :(
The reduced fat cheese I bought has 5g more protein per 100g than regular cheese.

So if I stop the calorie counting and start counting carbs, how many carbs am I supposed to have a day? I don't have regular meal times as I'm not a routine person, I generally eat when I want to, or do you mean my lunch and dinner can be at different times each day as long as I'm fasting and I only eat between x and y hours of the day? What about the jogging I'm planning to do to try and burn off about 500 calories, how would I have enough energy to do that if I'm fasting and skipping meals?

It all sounds a bit complicated to me compared to what I'm currently doing plus I'm not keen on the idea of fasting. Sorry if I'm misunderstanding what you mean?
 
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Thanks guys. At the moment this diet seems sustainable. I definitely agree with Zefan about coffee because it does reduce my appetite. And I often fast non deliberately if that makes sense, meaning I'll be busy doing something and haven't bothered to eat for hours.

Today I had an apple, and just now a livlife sandwich and a stick of celery and I feel sated. I also vape. I know that's frowned on but it really is my crutch because it helps me enormously not to eat, it's a bit like coffee. If I didn't vape I'd struggle with this or any type of diet.
 
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