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I still skip breakfast and have done for years. I can skip lunch most days but I feel better if I have a small lunch. Here's Peter Attia talking about some of

by jstx1 4y ago

I still skip breakfast and have done for years. I can skip lunch most days but I feel better if I have a small lunch. Here's Peter Attia talking about some of the potential problems - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6wczdlcBtI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6wczdlcBtI - his perspective is particularly refreshing because he was a big proponent of intermittent fasting / time-restricted feeding for a long time.

jmkr 4y ago
Most of my life I never ate breakfast, and for much of my life I skipped lunch. Lots of people are surprised by this, but apparently it's called one meal a day or something. Though for a while I've been doing a smoothie breakfast. Cutting back on that since it's a lot more calories than I thought. I find these days I'm hungrier and more prone to "feeling it in my brain" than when I was younger.
- dangwhy 4y ago
  do you have good muscle tone. I was doing this for a while and became skinnyfat with a gut.
  - jmkr 4y ago
    Not at the moment, got used to the sedentary lifestyle, but totally promise myself everyday I'll start exercising to some degree. I've actually been kinda confused about my diet for a year or so. I gained a bunch of weight and thought it was because of meds, but a couple of years ago on a similar diet I lost a bunch of weight. I guess I'm just following procedures instead of counting calories these day.
  - JohnFen 4y ago
    My eating habits are similar, and I got the belly problem as I entered middle age. It turned out that it was caused by a sedentary lifestyle. Incorporating daily mild exercise (I do it by bicycling to and from work) fixed that up.
- orev 4y ago
  Smoothies are one of those “health things” that aren’t healthy at all. Loaded with sugar, and all the fiber from fruit is pre-digested so you get a huge jolt of easily absorbed sugar and then an insulin rush and crash later. Almost as bad as soda pop. Just eat the whole fruit. It still has sugar but the time it takes for your body to slowly digest it means the sugar is released slowly and you get a steady flow of energy.
AlexErrant 4y ago
He was such a proponent that he was the chief medical officer for Zero, a fasting app https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFxAHRo4NqM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFxAHRo4NqM He used to do four 7-day fasts per year (one per quarter). He's chilled on that though after doing a dexa scan and seeing how much muscle mass he's lost. Exercise seems to be what he's focusing on now. He tweeted this, which I found remarkable: https://twitter.com/PeterAttiaMD/status/1499407558468980736/photo/2 https://twitter.com/PeterAttiaMD/status/1499407558468980736/... Basically, the hazard ratio of being a smoker is _better_ than that of someone who doesn't exercise. Louder, for those in the back: No exercise is worse than smoking Compare smoking in photo 2 against "low vs below-average [exercise]". That hazard ratio is worse than smoking, diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure. Going from virtually no exercise to _any exercise at all_ is better than quitting smoking.
- 876978095789789 4y ago
  I posted something on those studies that probably influenced Attia's about-face, including the TRF one that Ethan Weiss, former TRF practitioner/advocate and recent Attia interviewee, co-authored, that got flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33091215 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33091215 HN fasting, low-carb, and keto zealots (there's massive overlap) really hate being told that their fad diet(s) don't work or are outright dangerous. In fairness, it does look like if you're extremely diligent in terms of meeting your protein requirements, even OMAD might not cause muscle loss, but in general, it seems like a bad idea.

by jstx1 4y ago

jmkr 4y ago

Most of my life I never ate breakfast, and for much of my life I skipped lunch. Lots of people are surprised by this, but apparently it's called one meal a day or something. Though for a while I've been doing a smoothie breakfast. Cutting back on that since it's a lot more calories than I thought. I find these days I'm hungrier and more prone to "feeling it in my brain" than when I was younger.

dangwhy 4y ago
do you have good muscle tone. I was doing this for a while and became skinnyfat with a gut.
- jmkr 4y ago
  Not at the moment, got used to the sedentary lifestyle, but totally promise myself everyday I'll start exercising to some degree. I've actually been kinda confused about my diet for a year or so. I gained a bunch of weight and thought it was because of meds, but a couple of years ago on a similar diet I lost a bunch of weight. I guess I'm just following procedures instead of counting calories these day.
- JohnFen 4y ago
  My eating habits are similar, and I got the belly problem as I entered middle age. It turned out that it was caused by a sedentary lifestyle. Incorporating daily mild exercise (I do it by bicycling to and from work) fixed that up.
orev 4y ago
Smoothies are one of those “health things” that aren’t healthy at all. Loaded with sugar, and all the fiber from fruit is pre-digested so you get a huge jolt of easily absorbed sugar and then an insulin rush and crash later. Almost as bad as soda pop. Just eat the whole fruit. It still has sugar but the time it takes for your body to slowly digest it means the sugar is released slowly and you get a steady flow of energy.

AlexErrant 4y ago

He was such a proponent that he was the chief medical officer for Zero, a fasting app https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFxAHRo4NqM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFxAHRo4NqM He used to do four 7-day fasts per year (one per quarter). He's chilled on that though after doing a dexa scan and seeing how much muscle mass he's lost. Exercise seems to be what he's focusing on now. He tweeted this, which I found remarkable: https://twitter.com/PeterAttiaMD/status/1499407558468980736/photo/2 https://twitter.com/PeterAttiaMD/status/1499407558468980736/... Basically, the hazard ratio of being a smoker is _better_ than that of someone who doesn't exercise. Louder, for those in the back: No exercise is worse than smoking Compare smoking in photo 2 against "low vs below-average [exercise]". That hazard ratio is worse than smoking, diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure. Going from virtually no exercise to _any exercise at all_ is better than quitting smoking.

876978095789789 4y ago
I posted something on those studies that probably influenced Attia's about-face, including the TRF one that Ethan Weiss, former TRF practitioner/advocate and recent Attia interviewee, co-authored, that got flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33091215 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33091215 HN fasting, low-carb, and keto zealots (there's massive overlap) really hate being told that their fad diet(s) don't work or are outright dangerous. In fairness, it does look like if you're extremely diligent in terms of meeting your protein requirements, even OMAD might not cause muscle loss, but in general, it seems like a bad idea.