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I personally feel much better while fasting until the afternoon than eating.

tejohnso 4y ago
Same. I've been on a 7hr feeding window for two years now. I don't eat until noon. It's something else that I just decided to try on a whim for fun, but then decided to make it a permanent part of my life because of how well it seemed to fit.
onemoresoop 4y ago
I switched to this habit as well and reduced my meals to only 2 per day. I also learned to not fill up to the brim by waiting to see if I'm really hungry. Another habit that I adopted is chewing my food thoroughly.
- jjice 4y ago
  > chewing my food thoroughly. I've been trying to work on that. For better digestion and slower speed. For some reason, I've always been a fast eater and I'll end up eating more than is needed because I was faster than my body's feedback loop.
  - TurkishPoptart 4y ago
    Same. I think there's something about having been a public school student in the past 10-20 years that's to blame. We'd only get half an hour sometimes to eat lunch, and that's the only break between classes, so I grew up with the negative incentive to wolf down/inhale my shitty pizza/chicken sandwich as fast as possible so I could rid myself of the lunch tray and go play with my friends, study, or sulk in a corner.
    - smaccona 4y ago
      My grade school daughter’s actual time to eat lunch, at a public high school in an affluent area, after lines/outdoor time/etc (I have not been able to ascertain what eats up so much of the ~30 minutes lunch period allocation) varies between 3 and 7 minutes. She always has a packed lunch, so none of her time is spent waiting in line for actual food. This is staggering to me. I didn’t go to school in the US, but my wife did and says it was not like that in her day at a public school. Needless to say, she doesn’t have time to eat her lunch, so it inevitably comes home every day in its entirety except for quickly consumed items like yogurt and hummus. I have been considering experiments to try to figure out what’s going on, because the school administration denies this is the case but other parents confirm that their kids report the same thing. Any ideas for a good investigative method?

Same. I've been on a 7hr feeding window for two years now. I don't eat until noon. It's something else that I just decided to try on a whim for fun, but then decided to make it a permanent part of my life because of how well it seemed to fit.

onemoresoop 4y ago

I switched to this habit as well and reduced my meals to only 2 per day. I also learned to not fill up to the brim by waiting to see if I'm really hungry. Another habit that I adopted is chewing my food thoroughly.

jjice 4y ago
> chewing my food thoroughly. I've been trying to work on that. For better digestion and slower speed. For some reason, I've always been a fast eater and I'll end up eating more than is needed because I was faster than my body's feedback loop.
- TurkishPoptart 4y ago
  Same. I think there's something about having been a public school student in the past 10-20 years that's to blame. We'd only get half an hour sometimes to eat lunch, and that's the only break between classes, so I grew up with the negative incentive to wolf down/inhale my shitty pizza/chicken sandwich as fast as possible so I could rid myself of the lunch tray and go play with my friends, study, or sulk in a corner.
  - smaccona 4y ago
    My grade school daughter’s actual time to eat lunch, at a public high school in an affluent area, after lines/outdoor time/etc (I have not been able to ascertain what eats up so much of the ~30 minutes lunch period allocation) varies between 3 and 7 minutes. She always has a packed lunch, so none of her time is spent waiting in line for actual food. This is staggering to me. I didn’t go to school in the US, but my wife did and says it was not like that in her day at a public school. Needless to say, she doesn’t have time to eat her lunch, so it inevitably comes home every day in its entirety except for quickly consumed items like yogurt and hummus. I have been considering experiments to try to figure out what’s going on, because the school administration denies this is the case but other parents confirm that their kids report the same thing. Any ideas for a good investigative method?