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IF can just mean skipping breakfast or something. Apparently I've done it for years without meaning to by just often not being in the mood for breakfast. I woul

by ashark 10y ago

IF can just mean skipping breakfast or something. Apparently I've done it for years without meaning to by just often not being in the mood for breakfast. I wouldn't call it "real" fasting in the way you'd usually think of fasting, though maybe it does have health benefits. I'm skeptical—seems far too mild and too similar to ordinary eating habits to possibly do much, aside from maybe resulting is slightly lower overall caloric intake, which admittedly would be beneficial for most people, however that's not really a special effect of fasting per se, though it could still be an effective way to achieve it, which is fine.

metamet 10y ago
IF would typically involve keeping your feeding window to around 8 hours. So fast while you sleep and skip breakfast. Eat lunch at noon and nothing after 8pm. It's pretty easy and sustainable after a few days. Your body adapts and you don't hunger for breakfast.
- Globz 10y ago
  I have been doing this since forever...never knew it was called fasting! Ok sometimes I will eat after 8pm on rare occasions.
RobertoG 10y ago
It's funny that skipping break-fast is considered not fasting. I think this thing that we do (we have to eat every four hours or we will die) has nothing to do with the normal state of affairs for most of human history; And I'm not talking only about the palaeolithic here, but my grandparents time also.
- kevin_thibedeau 10y ago
  Because the three meals a day mantra and "breakfast is the most important meal" is hype to sell more cereal, eggs, and milk. Skipping breakfast isn't fasting if you aren't hungry.
  - gnaritas 10y ago
    Sleeping is fasting, that's why the first meal of the day is called break/fast. It only takes about 6-8 hours for food to be digested, when you aren't digesting, you're fasting. Skipping a meal is fasting, doesn't matter if you're hungry or not, if you aren't digesting, you're fasting.

by ashark 10y ago

metamet 10y ago

IF would typically involve keeping your feeding window to around 8 hours. So fast while you sleep and skip breakfast. Eat lunch at noon and nothing after 8pm. It's pretty easy and sustainable after a few days. Your body adapts and you don't hunger for breakfast.

Globz 10y ago
I have been doing this since forever...never knew it was called fasting! Ok sometimes I will eat after 8pm on rare occasions.

RobertoG 10y ago

It's funny that skipping break-fast is considered not fasting. I think this thing that we do (we have to eat every four hours or we will die) has nothing to do with the normal state of affairs for most of human history; And I'm not talking only about the palaeolithic here, but my grandparents time also.

kevin_thibedeau 10y ago
Because the three meals a day mantra and "breakfast is the most important meal" is hype to sell more cereal, eggs, and milk. Skipping breakfast isn't fasting if you aren't hungry.
- gnaritas 10y ago
  Sleeping is fasting, that's why the first meal of the day is called break/fast. It only takes about 6-8 hours for food to be digested, when you aren't digesting, you're fasting. Skipping a meal is fasting, doesn't matter if you're hungry or not, if you aren't digesting, you're fasting.