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The idea of fasting and the reality of fasting are different. The idea is more painful than a committed effort. Once you accept and embrace the fast, it’s freei

The idea of fasting and the reality of fasting are different. The idea is more painful than a committed effort. Once you accept and embrace the fast, it’s freeing. Like running every day.... once you know you’re going to do it, the resistance withers.

4ntonius8lock 7y ago
I run and I fast. I enjoy the benefit. The actual act of doing these things are antithetical of fun for me. I do them because they work. If I lose motivation in life, it's the first thing I stop and the hardest to start up again (been many years that I've worked on self improvement) Good on you that it feels that way to you. No, I will never feel that way. People are different.
pmiller2 7y ago
As someone who's gone multiple days in a row without eating non-voluntarily, you're never going to convince me that fasting for extended periods is fun.
- username90 7y ago
  That is like judging sex after only having experienced rape, consent matters a lot in how enjoyable things are.
  - luckylion 7y ago
    I've done both alternate day fasting and longer fasts (voluntarily) and I'm also in the same boat. It's not fun. If it didn't provide a health value to me, I wouldn't do it.
badestrand 7y ago
After doing intermittant fasting for half a year I think you shouldn't generalize too much from your own experience. Yes, it gets easier but it stays painful and requires a lot of willpower ime.
- yhoneycomb 7y ago
  I’ve been doing it for about a year and a half, just skipping breakfast each day and lunch one or two workdays a week. At this point, most days it’s not even hard. When I’m hungry I just realize that the hunger is temporary, and it’s honestly unrelated to the degree to which I need food. And tbh nowadays I can tell when my body actually feels weak and needs food, and when it’s just whining. I think of it like getting sleepy. Just because I feel sleepy doesn’t mean I should just take a nap right there and then.
  - AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
    > I’ve been doing it for about a year and a half, just skipping breakfast each day and lunch one or two workdays a week. You call that a fast? As someone who's lost and kept off about half their body weight, I feel qualified to tell you that skipping a meal here and there is not fasting. In fact, if you're eating every day you're not fasting. Fuck, I mean, I only eat about 1.5 meals a day as a requirement of merely maintaining my current weight (and even that doesn't always work).
    - qnsi 7y ago
      this is just different definition of what fasting is. What he's doing is time-restricted eating but it is a form of fasting. You are just doing longer fasts. No need to gatekeep
      - AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
        So is it a fast just whenever you're not eating?
        qnsi 7y ago
        technicly fast is defined as not eating. "Intermittent fasting means different things to different people, even among the research community. This lack of specificity has been a source of consternation for experts in the field of fasting, with some advocating that the phrase be retired. Often, when someone uses this phrase they may actually mean one of the following: Time-restricted eating Alternate-day fasting Periodic or prolonged fasting (multi-day) - less frequently referred to as intermittent"

4ntonius8lock 7y ago

I run and I fast. I enjoy the benefit. The actual act of doing these things are antithetical of fun for me. I do them because they work. If I lose motivation in life, it's the first thing I stop and the hardest to start up again (been many years that I've worked on self improvement) Good on you that it feels that way to you. No, I will never feel that way. People are different.

pmiller2 7y ago

As someone who's gone multiple days in a row without eating non-voluntarily, you're never going to convince me that fasting for extended periods is fun.

username90 7y ago
That is like judging sex after only having experienced rape, consent matters a lot in how enjoyable things are.
- luckylion 7y ago
  I've done both alternate day fasting and longer fasts (voluntarily) and I'm also in the same boat. It's not fun. If it didn't provide a health value to me, I wouldn't do it.

badestrand 7y ago

After doing intermittant fasting for half a year I think you shouldn't generalize too much from your own experience. Yes, it gets easier but it stays painful and requires a lot of willpower ime.

yhoneycomb 7y ago
I’ve been doing it for about a year and a half, just skipping breakfast each day and lunch one or two workdays a week. At this point, most days it’s not even hard. When I’m hungry I just realize that the hunger is temporary, and it’s honestly unrelated to the degree to which I need food. And tbh nowadays I can tell when my body actually feels weak and needs food, and when it’s just whining. I think of it like getting sleepy. Just because I feel sleepy doesn’t mean I should just take a nap right there and then.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
  > I’ve been doing it for about a year and a half, just skipping breakfast each day and lunch one or two workdays a week. You call that a fast? As someone who's lost and kept off about half their body weight, I feel qualified to tell you that skipping a meal here and there is not fasting. In fact, if you're eating every day you're not fasting. Fuck, I mean, I only eat about 1.5 meals a day as a requirement of merely maintaining my current weight (and even that doesn't always work).
  - qnsi 7y ago
    this is just different definition of what fasting is. What he's doing is time-restricted eating but it is a form of fasting. You are just doing longer fasts. No need to gatekeep
    - AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
      So is it a fast just whenever you're not eating?
      - qnsi 7y ago
        technicly fast is defined as not eating. "Intermittent fasting means different things to different people, even among the research community. This lack of specificity has been a source of consternation for experts in the field of fasting, with some advocating that the phrase be retired. Often, when someone uses this phrase they may actually mean one of the following: Time-restricted eating Alternate-day fasting Periodic or prolonged fasting (multi-day) - less frequently referred to as intermittent"