I'm pretty much an intermittent faster of a few years now simply by not eating breakfast. Never really liked eating in the mornings because a) I wasn't really hungry b) I'd rather spend my time with sleeping than waking up to eat, lol, but that's just me.
First meal is usually at work, because of lunch hour when there's literally nothing else to do other than to eat - something light and not too much so that I don't fall into food coma in the middle of a day (that happened way too often in school, can't resist free food, haha). On a typical week day I have about an 8-10 hour eating window. On weekends or non-workdays I might start eating as late as 6PM. Sometimes I'm just so engaged with something that it would be awkward to stop eating which might cause me to break focus.
It all comes naturally to me and I don't need or want to look for an exact eating window. Also the body is very adjustable, some Youtuber had tried eating only every other day, and soon he indeed only felt hungry every other day after his body had picked up the new rhythm. So hunger itself doesn't necessarily mean you need food but has a lot to do with eating habits also.
Seems like it really works for you! It's not restrictive, but rather fits to your day-to-day life. I've always been the kind of person who needs breakfast in order to start the day properly, so intermittent fasting has been quite hard for me to understand. Only a few years ago there was no way I was able to understand how anyone could skip breakfast, but now I look at it very differently. If you aren't hungry in the morning, and feel like you don't need anything to eat, then why to do so? In addition, there also are people who start to feel nauseous from eating early in the morning...
I think this proves how well the diet/lifestyle fits for you. Probably you'd follow intermittent fasting, even if no one had created the term, since it's natural for you. But that what you said about adjusting the body also makes sense, our bodies just need time to break habits and create new ones.
Thanks for your comment, it was really nice to hear about your experience! :)
Yeah, I only discovered the term 'intermittent fasting' after I had already eaten like I do.
Hey @celestal! Was curious what youtube you were referring to! I just put up a video on YouTube and blog on steemit where I tried intermittent fasting myself. Would be curious to know how you think my experience compares the other YouTuber you were talking about.
Ahh... I can't remember anymore who it was, but I'll check out your blog about it.