I have tried everything out there to lose weight. I refuse to medicate myself into “health.” This app has been the easiest and most user friendly guide I have ever used. To be able to just take a picture of my food and have it logged has been a game changer for me. I am in my first week. As a huge fan of nighttime snacking, this has really helped me understand how bad it is for my health (which I was well aware of, but just couldn’t ((didn’t)) stop). FASTIC has helped guide me. Granted, I’m only in my first week, but so far, so good. Also, I stand by the analogy that 30 days makes a habit. The first day I weighed in at 177. One week later, through increasing my water intake, monitoring my food intake (with very little change to my normal daily food choices), and adhering to a daily 14 hour fast, I am down to 173 pounds. That’s 4 pounds in 6 days. Again, user friendly, informative, flexible, multiple levels and degrees of fasting. I don’t have an Apple Watch or Fitbit, so my only problem is remembering to carry my phone everywhere I go in order to get a proper daily step count. I am loving this app and I am so glad I found it. 13-18 pounds to my goal weight. I feel much more capable of success with this app.

Pros: Good interface, encouraging, doesn’t try to tell you to fast 48 or 72 hours, sets you up for success (I love earning frosties so I can keep up my streak). Also in a world where everything is now subscription based I was able to get a whole year of plus on sale for like $24 which I decided was a really good price. I also like that I can find fun new recipes here. Lastly the “Academy” is nice and I like that with Plus I can track other goals too. Cons: I hope the app devs are reading this because I can’t find any other way to give feedback. 1) Should be able to set different goals for different days. With Plus I can choose some days to NOT fast but what I want is 15-9 5 days of the week and 20-4 two days. I have not found a way to set this yet. 2) Encourages “dirty” fasting with all sorts of fancy fruit flavored beverages. Anything that tastes like food is going to cause you to secrete insulin. A true “clean” fast should be nothing but water, electrolytes, plain black coffee and plain black or green tea. Check out the work of Gin Stephens for more on this. 3) No “up day/down day” fasting options, strictly a daily eating window model. You could fake it by setting your goal to 23-1 but only 1-3 days per week but it would be nice to see more information on different types of fasting models. 4) The “habits” don’t make much sense to me, whether I do the daily task or not it tells me it is finished?

Update: I have to give credit where credit is due. Upon opening the app today, I saw it had been updated to both allow me to change which day or days I wish to not fast, and let me set up daily goals once again. This has made my experience so much better, and I am very happy. I would probably recommend this app now, especially if issues like this are sorted out this quickly. Of course, the update could have already been on its way too. But regardless, I am pleased with it. I’ve enjoyed the app overall so far, but am annoyed by some things. One, the first day I set it up, I was able to set up some kind of daily goal of my own. After that first day, it completely disappeared and I could not find anything related to it again. Secondly, I wanted to have a free day on Sunday, but it was still tracking my fast for Saturday. So I thought well maybe I should move my free day to Saturday technically, and maybe that will solve the issue. Right? But then I found that I can’t move my free day without resetting my account and losing all my progress. Who decided that was a good idea?? I paid money for this app too, because I really liked it at first. But seriously, it needs some work still. Update: I tried resetting my account in order to change which day is my free day…and it didn’t give me an option to change that! So so dumb. I lost my progress for nothing. I’m really unhappy that I paid for this app now. Cannot recommend.