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Further update. I am still on this regimen - no food from between 8-9 PM to 11 AM, except on those weekend mornings when I'm going for a longish ride.
I haven't lost much additional weight following my post in January. Maybe a pound or two, but considering daily fluctuations, that's hard to measure.
BUT, I took an A1C test this week and it's down to 4.7. Previously, it was stubbornly stuck at 5.6 - just on the edge of pre-diabetes (my PCP called my condition "possibly very early pre-diabetes"). 4.7 is MUCH better. Prior to beginning the 14/10 intermittent fasting regime, I had spent more than a year trying to get my A1C down by making other dietary changes- notably greatly reducing my intake of carbohydrates at meals and dramatically reducing my heavy intake of white rice. Those changes hadn't affected my A1C, but the intermittent fasting has.
I don't think I'll lose much more weight doing this just now. However, usually I lose weight in the spring as my weekly hours of riding goes way up. If my orthopedic health allows and I put in a good spring of 1000-1200 mile months in May and June, I may get down another 5 pounds. That would give me a BMI of 20.5 and I have no particular desire to be any lower than that.