Answers to Your Questions About Women Who Fast

• Created by women and just for women and their unique life experiences. 
• Easy to set and customize the timer. No streaks or gimmicks so you can always edit your fasting times, anytime.
• Free. Completely Free. No pop-ups, no arm twisting.
• Focused on lots of different aspects of life, not just the physical ones!
• Two apps in one: 
  • All the tools you need to plan, execute, and record your fasts.
  • Interesting ideas and helpful hints about how to make the most of your  intermittent fasting lifestyle as well as all kinds of ideas about living your life to the fullest (not to mention a great break from divisive social media!)

Intermittent fasting is an eating plan that switches between fasting (consuming only water, black coffee, black tea) and eating on a regular schedule. Research shows that intermittent fasting is a way to manage your weight and prevent — or even reverse — some forms of disease.

For help getting started, check out How To Start Intermittent Fasting!

Experts agree that some people should steer clear of  intermittent fasting:

• Children and teens under age 18.
• Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
• People with diabetes or blood sugar problems.
• Those with a history of eating disorders.

Even if these conditions do not apply to you, it is always recommended to check in with your primary care physician before getting started and keep in mind that intermittent fasting may have different effects on different people. Talk to your doctor if you start experiencing unusual anxiety, headaches, nausea or other symptoms after you start intermittent fasting.

Once you are confident it is medically safe for you to fast, the actual practice is simple.

• Figure out what time you typically take your first bite each day and when you usually eat for the last time each evening. Those times mark the beginning and end of your current “eating window”.
• Choose a ten or twelve hour eating window that fits your current eating window and then fast for the rest of the 24 hours. 
• Start reading all you can about intermittent fasting and defining what your particular goals are. (Think bigger than just weight loss. Autophagy is an amazing thing!)
• Choose an intermittent fasting window that fits your chosen goals and start working towards it. Popular intermittent fasting times are 16:8 (sixteen hours fasting/8 hours eating), 18:6, 20:4, etc.
• Studies show it can take two to four weeks before the body becomes accustomed to intermittent fasting. You might feel hungry or cranky while you’re getting used to the new routine. But, research shows that those who who make it through the adjustment period tend to stick with the plan, because they notice they feel better.

We tried to make the timer as simple and flexible as possible so just click on “add fast” from the home screen and we hope it makes sense from there. You can also check out this short video for an an easy overview on how to user the Women Who Fast timer. Read more…

Mainly because they drive us crazy and we’ve discovered we aren’t alone! Just like you, we have been staring at slowly progressing circles since computers became mainstream 40 years ago. Files slowly uploading, attachments taking forever to attach, videos buffering and circling over and over and over again. So instead of taking up the screen with a giant circle, we decided to keep the timer small and provide some fun content to read when you’re checking in on your fast. Plus, why depict a fasting window as a long, slow journey to endure? We choose to see it as a “break” from all the things associated with eating ($, prep time, cleanup time, feeling stuffed time, shopping time, etc.)

Our Easy Set option allows you to create customized fasting windows that work for you. Read more…

The app calendar allows you to see your progress at a glance as well as edit past fasts and schedule future fasts for your convenience. Read more…

Click on the drop down toggle on the timer to find out what’s going on in your body depending on where you are in your fast. Read more…

Select the “Guides” button listed at the bottom of the app screen and select “fasting” for lots of fasting information. (This same information is provided on the Fasting page on the website as well.)  For us personally, we try to read as much as possible and rely heavily on information from a wide variety of experts including Dr. Jason Fung, Dr. Eric Berg, and Dr. Gin Stephens.

Intermittent Fasting isn’t always easy but it always provides us with more time and money! We want to encourage you to spend at least the time you save ON YOU. (We are personally using some of the extra money on ourselves as well!) With those opportunities in mind, we are providing you daily content to enjoy, learn from and even sometimes act on. We noticed that the information on the other apps seem mainly focused on health and weight loss and we have you covered there…but as you know, there is more to a woman’s life than that! 

Our goal is to present many different viewpoints on life and intermittent fasting and allow you to determine what works best for you. We have personally made many tweaks and modifications to our fasting lifestyles since we started fasting and we have learned that really good strategies don’t work for everyone, (women in particular). We hope Women Who Fast will provide you with lots of ideas and suggestions that help you develop a thriving intermittent fasting lifestyle of your own.  

The Women Who Fast app is free to download and every feature is free to use without any paid subscriptions. The other apps charge premium subscription rates to provide information that can usually be found for free in one form or another on the internet and we can find that free stuff for you. So how do we pay our bills?

Parts of our changing content will include items we LOVE from organizations we trust. So whenever our users like the same items and decide to purchase using our links, we will use those affiliate commissions to keep the app free for you. No pop-ups or bait and switch buttons to try and get you to “go premium”. It’s completely free to use Women Who Fast!

That is completely up to you! Many women eat what they want during their eating window (check out Gin Stephens “Delay Don’t Deny”.) If you decide you want to eat differently for specific results, there are hundreds of eating plans out there and if you’re like us, you’ve already tried several of them. That’s why, we are leaving recommendations to your doctor and other experts.

That said, there does seem to be consensus among experts regarding the dangers associated with the consumption of excess sugar. 

Women Who Fast is here to assist you with your fasting lifestyle and provide interesting ways to foster growth and fun each day. We understand many of you record other metrics (and we have too in the past) but successfully fasting on a regular basis doesn’t require tracking pounds, inches, steps, water, etc. Besides, there are many excellent tracking programs many of us are already using to specifically track the metrics that are important to you. In the future, depending on your feedback, we may decide to try and integrate Women Who Fast with some of the popular tracking programs suggested by our users. For now, the Women Who Fast app will track your fasting and you can monitor your progress simply by glancing at the app calendar. 

No, absolutely not, no. We hate the idea of our information being sold and protecting your information has been at the forefront of our minds during the app creation. Because no financial transactions happen on our site, the only information we collect is your email address for communication purposes.

Please see our privacy policy and terms of use for more information.