Intermittent Fasting With Cronometer
A CRONOMETER GOLD FEATURE
Our Fasting Timer is available to Cronometer Gold users and is a great way to keep track of your intermittent fasting periods and assess the impact it’s having on your overall health.
You also now have the choice to display the fasting widget from your Discover tab or your Diary screen, or both! Head into More > Targets > Fasting on the mobile app or More > Fasting on the web app or watch the video below to take a look at what’s new.
For more detailed instructions, check out our user manual for the mobile app and the web app.
What Is Cronometer's Fasting Timer?
Our Fasting Timer allows you to time and track your intermittent fasts. It will give you a better idea of when you can start and stop eating and you will be able to look back on your fasting history to gauge the impact it’s having on your overall health.
With our Fasting Timer, you can:
- Log fasting periods
- View status of a current fast
- View a history of fasting periods
- Schedule future fasts
- Add comments particular to your fast; how did it go, was there hurdles, do you feel great?
- Chart fasts against other nutrients and biometrics to identify trends.
How To Use It
Our Fasting Timer is exclusively available to Cronometer Gold subscribers. If you haven’t upgraded to Gold yet and want access to the feature, click here to upgrade.
On both the mobile and web app, click More > Fasting.
From here, make sure ‘Enable Fasting’ is toggled on and select where you’d like it displayed, on your Diary and/or your Dashboard.
Click ‘New Fast’ to begin. From here, you can start or schedule a fast.
Leveraging The Fasting Timer
Once you’ve completed a fast, your fasting periods can be seen on your Charts to help identify how your fasting can be impacting valuable biometrics, like sleep, weight, appetite, inflammation and more.
On mobile, head to Discover > Charts. Tap > in the top right hand corner and toggle on ‘Show Fasting Periods’.
On web, click Trends > Charts and click the ⋮ in the top right hand corner of the chart and click ‘Show Fast Periods’.
For example:
Fasting & Sleep
Fasting before bed may improve your sleep quality by helping to support your natural circadian rhythyms. If you want to see how your intermittent fasting is affecting your sleep, first you’ll need to track your sleep!
There is a sleep duration biometric that already exists or Gold subscribers can create a Custom Biometric for sleep quality or something more specific. You can then create a chart to track that sleep data.
Click the three dot menu in the top right-hand corner of the chart and click ‘Show Fast Periods’ and you’ll see a visualization of how your fasting has impacted your sleep over time.
Fasting & Inflammation
Fasting has been shown to reduce inflammation in some people. If you want to see how your intermittent fasting is affecting your inflammation, start tracking your inflammation symptoms like stool, gut health or skin health.
Gold subscribers can create a Custom Biometric for inflammation, then create a chart to track that data.
Click the three dot menu in the top right-hand corner of the chart and click ‘Show Fast Periods’ and you’ll see a visualization of how your fasting has impacted your inflammation over time.
Fasting & Weight
Fasting has been shown to help with weight loss. If you want to see how your intermittent fasting is affecting your weight, start tracking your weight with the weight biometric.
From your weight chart (Discover > Charts), click the chevron or the three dot menu in the top right-hand corner of the chart and click ‘Show Fast Periods’ and you’ll see a visualization of how your fasting has impacted your weight over time.
