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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 an

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"
  - yhoneycomb 7y ago
    The person I replied to was talking about intermittent fasting, usually eating within a 6- or 8-hour window. Don't be a dick. I guess since I never let myself go as much as you did, I'm not allowed to share my experiences?
tomubl 7y ago
I IF but I can workout before my 11 to 5 eat window. It eliminates hunger. I time it when I am done exercising i drink a 64 ounce smoothie that i concoct with targeted nutrients. Fasting increases vasointestinal peptide VIP which boost growth hormone.

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"
- yhoneycomb 7y ago
  The person I replied to was talking about intermittent fasting, usually eating within a 6- or 8-hour window. Don't be a dick. I guess since I never let myself go as much as you did, I'm not allowed to share my experiences?

tomubl 7y ago

I IF but I can workout before my 11 to 5 eat window. It eliminates hunger. I time it when I am done exercising i drink a 64 ounce smoothie that i concoct with targeted nutrients. Fasting increases vasointestinal peptide VIP which boost growth hormone.