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So anybody that regularly skips breakfast now adheres to an IF diet? It cannot possibly be that important if the only difference between your eating schedule an

So anybody that regularly skips breakfast now adheres to an IF diet? It cannot possibly be that important if the only difference between your eating schedule and the norm is that you omit breakfast and midnight snacks.

dvt 9y ago
> It cannot possibly be that important if the only difference between your eating schedule and the norm is that you omit breakfast and midnight snacks. And yet it is[1]. To borrow from Nassim Taleb, humans have a terrible habit of undervaluing small incremental change and overvaluing large sweeping change. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3106288/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3106288/
- cycrutchfield 9y ago
  Well TIL that I have been “intermittent fasting” for my entire adult life. Edit: your linked article is a study on rats which intermittently fasted for periods of 24-48 hours. That is a very far cry from what you have described.
  - dvt 9y ago
    > Well TIL that I have been “intermittent fasting” for my entire adult life. If you snack at night or until midnight (or drink any sugary drinks at night), as many casually do, no you haven't. You'd need to make sure that calories are completely restricted when the feeding window closes. Check out this paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8238506 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8238506 done on adult men -- with that said, IF hasn't been studied much. My original post is purely anecdotal. YMMV.
    - astura 9y ago
      That's a pretty huge assumption, I've never snacked at night and I can't understand why anyone would.