Always Eat After 7 PM Weight Loss Challenge: Week 3 Check In

This is a sponsored post for Always Eat After 7 PM: The Revolutionary Rule-Breaking Diet That Lets You Enjoy Huge Dinners, Desserts, and Indulgent Snacks—While Burning Fat Overnight written by me; all opinions are my own.

I’m three weeks into the Always Eat After 7 PM plan, and I just wanted to touch base on how it’s going: spoiler alert, I’m loving it. In case you missed it, here’s my first post explaining why I took on the challenge and also a Q&A with the author, Joel Marion!

Always Eat After 7 PM: The Revolutionary Rule-Breaking Diet That Lets You Enjoy Huge Dinners, Desserts, and Indulgent Snacks—While Burning Fat Overnight by Joel Marion is now available to purchase. Learn more about the book and how you can purchase it here.

My goal going into this was to find something new that would help me shed these last 10 pounds. I’ve lost 2 pounds in three weeks - which I am thrilled about and is a healthy weight loss! - and I’ve already started feeling some of the other benefits that Joel said we could expect in the book. 

I let myself ease into intermittent fasting, and now I’m up to a 15-16 hour fast every day (I shoot for 14-15, but sometimes get to 16 because I lose track of time with work). I feel more focused in the morning, especially since I’m not immediately thinking about food - something I didn’t even realize I was doing. I’m not even hungry in the mornings anymore! This is because, as explained in the book, “Late-night eating also curbs calorie intake the next day. In a four-week study, dieters added a snack to their daily regimen 90 minutes after dinner every night, and check this out: late-night eaters ate an average of 397 fewer calories per day.”

I’m also feeling so much more satisfied both in terms of fullness and fulfilling with my body’s needs. My past diets had me pretty low on fats, even healthy ones, so it feels good to have those back in my body. This is even more exciting because you usually hear that a diet has to be one or the other, that carbs are evil and fats are evil, but I’m having both now after the Acceleration Phase and still seeing success while feeling deprived of nothing. This program has made my eating day-to-day simple. Especially since you do get to have cheat meals, there’s been no feelings of, “Oh man, I wish I could eat this or that,” which is a first for me in my five years of dieting! My relationship with food has improved so much.

Having the meal/day where we can indulge in things we really want is helpful too, and even with intermittent fasting Joel doesn't force you to be super strict - even he said he enjoys weekend breakfast with his family. I think it's great because he takes into consideration what real life is like, and it helps me feel like I"m not missing out on anything because I still can enjoy pancakes on a Saturday morning if my husband makes them. 

Cheesy Ground Beef Skillet

Fruit Tarts

The recipes that Joel has provided are delicious and simple. It’s seriously one of my favorite parts of the book. Nothing has a crazy amount of ingredients, nothing weird or hard to find, and they’re so flavorful. It’s hard to pick a favorite, but I really love the Cheesy Ground Beef Skillet (I make it with ground turkey since I don’t eat red meat, and it’s super tasty) and my husband couldn’t get enough of it either! We also really both love the recipe for chocolate buttons since it makes for a quick and easy dessert. We plan to make the fruit tarts next!
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Always Eat After 7 PM: The Revolutionary Rule-Breaking Diet That Lets You Enjoy Huge Dinners, Desserts, and Indulgent Snacks—While Burning Fat Overnight by Joel Marion is now available to purchase. Learn more about the book and how you can purchase it here.

This is a sponsored post for Always Eat After 7 PM: The Revolutionary Rule-Breaking Diet That Lets You Enjoy Huge Dinners, Desserts, and Indulgent Snacks—While Burning Fat Overnight written by me; all opinions are my own.