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How is that considered fasting? Eat breakfast at 9, lunch at noon, and dinner at 5. That's just a normal day.

Majestic121 3y ago
Depends on where you are in the world, dinner at 5 would be really weird in a lot of places. Most restaurants would not even be open for another 2 hours
- ghaff 3y ago
  Even if you eat at home saying you have to eat before many people are off work seems like a rather arbitrary restriction for the sake of 2 or 3 hours. And I say that as someone who does sometimes eat earlier and often don't really have 3 meals a day.
  - JackMorgan 3y ago
    The body doesn't significantly start burning fat for fuel until glucose stores are exhausted, which on average takes at least 12 hours of fasting. Every hour after is running on "fat batteries", so a few extra hours is the difference between zero fat burned and several oz of fat burned.
- bongodongobob 3y ago
  Well it's not weird anywhere in the US. Skip breakfast for a snack at 10 and push dinner to 6 and it's pretty average. Fasting is not eating. But sure, let's just change the meaning to "scheduling when I eat".
tareqak 3y ago
Dinner has to end on or before 5. No calories from 5PM to 9AM.
- bongodongobob 3y ago
  That's not a fast, it's just eating less.
  - tareqak 3y ago
    > Fasting is the abstention from eating and sometimes drinking. From a purely physiological context, "fasting" may refer to the metabolic status of a person who has not eaten overnight (see "Breakfast"), or to the metabolic state achieved after complete digestion and absorption of a meal.[1] Metabolic changes in the fasting state begin after absorption of a meal (typically 3–5 hours after eating). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting
JackMorgan 3y ago
It's a place to _start_, once a person can handle that consistently, then more strict protocols like 18/6 or 23/1 are easier to do consistently.

Depends on where you are in the world, dinner at 5 would be really weird in a lot of places. Most restaurants would not even be open for another 2 hours

ghaff 3y ago
Even if you eat at home saying you have to eat before many people are off work seems like a rather arbitrary restriction for the sake of 2 or 3 hours. And I say that as someone who does sometimes eat earlier and often don't really have 3 meals a day.
- JackMorgan 3y ago
  The body doesn't significantly start burning fat for fuel until glucose stores are exhausted, which on average takes at least 12 hours of fasting. Every hour after is running on "fat batteries", so a few extra hours is the difference between zero fat burned and several oz of fat burned.
bongodongobob 3y ago
Well it's not weird anywhere in the US. Skip breakfast for a snack at 10 and push dinner to 6 and it's pretty average. Fasting is not eating. But sure, let's just change the meaning to "scheduling when I eat".

tareqak 3y ago

Dinner has to end on or before 5. No calories from 5PM to 9AM.

bongodongobob 3y ago
That's not a fast, it's just eating less.
- tareqak 3y ago
  > Fasting is the abstention from eating and sometimes drinking. From a purely physiological context, "fasting" may refer to the metabolic status of a person who has not eaten overnight (see "Breakfast"), or to the metabolic state achieved after complete digestion and absorption of a meal.[1] Metabolic changes in the fasting state begin after absorption of a meal (typically 3–5 hours after eating). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting

JackMorgan 3y ago

It's a place to _start_, once a person can handle that consistently, then more strict protocols like 18/6 or 23/1 are easier to do consistently.