Just came off a 48 hour fast

[Anonymous]

It is pretty hard to get really overweight. It takes years of overweight. If that is why people feel the need to fast, to get their impulsive non stop eating under control, who am I to judge?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is pretty hard to get really overweight. It takes years of overweight. If that is why people feel the need to fast, to get their impulsive non stop eating under control, who am I to judge?

I've heard that some women gain quite a lot of weight during a pregnancy?.. And that not all of them can shed it right away...

p.s. Also, fasting is good for a whole plethora of reasons, not only for weightloss.

p.p.s. And yes, you ARE judging. In a snarky way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is pretty hard to get really overweight. It takes years of overweight. If that is why people feel the need to fast, to get their impulsive non stop eating under control, who am I to judge?

I've heard that some women gain quite a lot of weight during a pregnancy?.. And that not all of them can shed it right away...

p.s. Also, fasting is good for a whole plethora of reasons, not only for weightloss.

p.p.s. And yes, you ARE judging. In a snarky way.

Well, clearly! Good for you for noticing sarcasm!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m 54 years old. 5’5 and 115 pounds (trying to get back up to 120). And a fitness trainer. You people are nuts. Your body needs food. Fasting occasionally for religious purposes is very different from this IF nonsense. What kind of message do you think you are sending to your children? Fasting is not good for you. Keto is horrible for you. Low-Carb is bad for most people.

Your body knows what it needs to function at its best. Most people have just learned to ignore those signals. You crave specific foods for a reason. Eat a variety of foods in reasonable amounts. And move your body every single day. If you aren’t out working a physically demanding job every day, you need to add vigorous exercise daily.

There is no way you will be overweight if you listen to your body, eat a variety of foods mindful of portion size, and move your ass daily.

You are a complete know nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In honor of this thread, I threw in a second 36 hour fast this week. Feeling amazing!

Holiday feasts start this weekend! Cheers!

I bet you look and feel great, especially your skin.

[Anonymous]

8 pages of judgmental comments. Why?!

If this works for OP, then LIVE AND LET LIVE! It's not like OP's choices are at all affecting you personally - except maybe it's forcing you to look at your own eating habits and admit how out of control you yourself are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:8 pages of judgmental comments. Why?!

If this works for OP, then LIVE AND LET LIVE! It's not like OP's choices are at all affecting you personally - except maybe it's forcing you to look at your own eating habits and admit how out of control you yourself are.

Yes, I'm so out of control! I eat to satiety when I feel hungry, and then I stop. Mostly I choose plants and lean protein and healthy fats. Sometimes sweets and alcohol. You know, soooo out of control.

(You should have stopped at live and let live, and probably not shouted it.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My boss (a man) fasts for 7 days at a time. He is obsessed with it and is thinking of trying 10. Seems crazy to me but I just politely listen when he talks about it because I have no choice.

I forgot to add that he doesn’t eat normally the rest of the time. He binge eats when he isn’t fasting and can’t stop. So he is either fasting for 7 days or more or he is bingeing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think a lot of those who are really upset about this post are those same people that can't seem to control their own eating, so this makes them really uncomfortable because it forces them to "look in the mirror" so to speak and be honest with themselves that they have zero self control.

I am one of the people who is pretty appalled by this thread. And actually it's the opposite. I would guess most of us who feel this way have never really struggled with our weights, or with body image (beyond the normal sht most women struggle with).

My husband is very overweight, and living with him has taught me a lot about how easy I've had it generally. My "eat well and get some exercise!" approach works for me. It doesn't do sht for him. And as much as I've tried to become more open minded and empathetic toward others who need more than just a balanced diet and an hour of walking every day, I still have my biases - one of them is against fasting. Which I do think is a form of eating disorder - I just do.

And no, I don't include religious fasting in that. I wouldn't call it disordered, necessarily, if you went 12 hours a day without eating. But yes, going 36 hours without eating - sometimes multiple times a week. To me, to ME, that sounds like an eating disorder - and nothing that's been said here has made me think otherwise. The feeling of control, the purported mental clarity, the feeling as if you've hacked the system, the parsing out minute amounts of calories (a splash of milk, some bone broth) - that is how anorexics think and talk. This is like the GOOP-lady version of teenaged anorexia - or at least that's how it sounds to me.

Anyway - no, we're not all fat fatties who can't stop fatting. I think probably a lot of us who think this sounds really problematic are, instead, normal sized women who don't struggle with food in the same way as the people who find 36 hour fasts appealing.

[Anonymous]

I don't know why you felt the need to write such a long post whereas you could simply state 'my dislike of fasting is totally ungrounded and subjective'.

I fast, I am normal BMI, I eat healthy+enough, I love food, and I don't like when people label others with diagnoses when they have no clue what they are talking about.

[Anonymous]

I lost 75 pounds through portion control, calorie counting, and working out. I still eat what I want and don't get hung up on it.

I think anyone who insists that they have to go 48 hours without eating or whatever other unhealthy means have disordered eating. It's completely possible to lose weight and maintain a healthy weight without crazy restrictions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why you felt the need to write such a long post whereas you could simply state 'my dislike of fasting is totally ungrounded and subjective'.

I fast, I am normal BMI, I eat healthy+enough, I love food, and I don't like when people label others with diagnoses when they have no clue what they are talking about.

Because I live in the world and I find it disturbing that this sort of extreme body stuff is being normalized here to people who might not have the wherewithal to avoid an eating disorder and really harm themselves

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/21/extreme-fasting-how-silicon-valley-is-rebranding-eating-disorders

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/is-fasting-on-alternate-days-good-for-your-health#Considered-an-extreme-diet-intervention

https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/articles/is-intermittent-fasting-an-eating-disorder

[Anonymous]

100% disordered and obsessive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why you felt the need to write such a long post whereas you could simply state 'my dislike of fasting is totally ungrounded and subjective'.

I fast, I am normal BMI, I eat healthy+enough, I love food, and I don't like when people label others with diagnoses when they have no clue what they are talking about.

Because I live in the world and I find it disturbing that this sort of extreme body stuff is being normalized here to people who might not have the wherewithal to avoid an eating disorder and really harm themselves

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/21/extreme-fasting-how-silicon-valley-is-rebranding-eating-disorders

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/is-fasting-on-alternate-days-good-for-your-health#Considered-an-extreme-diet-intervention

https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/articles/is-intermittent-fasting-an-eating-disorder

And more

https://www.mentalhelp.net/blogs/anorexia-nervosa-and-fasting/

https://seedsofhope.pyramidhealthcarepa.com/intermittent-fasting/

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/01/silicon-valley-extreme-diets-fasting/581566/

People here are being so glib recommending that you go literally half the week without eating - and comparing it to religious fasting, which is done not for weight loss and NOT for half the week every week. I don't know any of you and if you want to starve yourselves into nothing while self-aggrandizing your disordered eating, then go for it. But there are real people who read these posts and get idea for how they can live, and I think you are really hurting those people.

[Anonymous]

There are real doctors at real research universities (Harvard, Johns Hopkins, USC, etc.) doing real research on the health and weight benefits of fasting.

It is providing real relief as in reversing diabetes and fighting cancer.

I really wish all of you people who are panicked by discussions of fasting would read some of the medical literature or even look for ted talks on this.

Peace.