How to cope with inability to focus when intermittent fasting?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stop with this ridiculousness and eat a healthy breakfast.

+1

Eat food. Real food. Stuff that doesn't come from a box or styrofoam tray. Move a little each day. The rest will take care of itself. No more stupid diets or fads, people.

I eat real food, I rarely snack and never eat processed food, and I cycle 20 miles every day. Yet I am 60 lbs overweight.

Maybe what works for you doesn't work for everyone? I have found IF very useful in losing weight.

You're either (1) not being honest with how much you're eating (like eating two pounds of cashews/day), or (2) are a rare medical anomaly and should be the subject of many special medical studies.

That’s simply not true and you’re being closed minded. If it were as simple as calories in vs calories out and nothing ever changed, people wouldn’t plateau on diets. Now, there’s a lot to be said for eating less and moving more, but it’s a little more nuanced than that.

[Anonymous]

What I find the most amazing is that DCUM finds it HORRIFYING that people are essentially skipping breakfast. That’s all this is. Can you really not survive if you miss a meal? FFS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop with this ridiculousness and eat a healthy breakfast.

+1

Eat food. Real food. Stuff that doesn't come from a box or styrofoam tray. Move a little each day. The rest will take care of itself. No more stupid diets or fads, people.

I eat real food, I rarely snack and never eat processed food, and I cycle 20 miles every day. Yet I am 60 lbs overweight.

Maybe what works for you doesn't work for everyone? I have found IF very useful in losing weight.

You're either (1) not being honest with how much you're eating (like eating two pounds of cashews/day), or (2) are a rare medical anomaly and should be the subject of many special medical studies.

That’s simply not true and you’re being closed minded. If it were as simple as calories in vs calories out and nothing ever changed, people wouldn’t plateau on diets. Now, there’s a lot to be said for eating less and moving more, but it’s a little more nuanced than that.

Yes, it is not totally and completely as simple as calories in, calories out, and quality of calories does matter. But if you're eating real food, healthy food, and exercising every day, and have an extra 60lbs on your body, you're either a complete scientific anomaly or are eating way, way too much. Or not being completely honest about either.

And I get it, I've been there myself. You wouldn't be the first obese person to lie to themselves.

[Anonymous]

NP here. I find IF to be a great way to restrict calories and loose weight. Fasting is nothing new to humanity. It is actually healthy for the body to fast occasionally even if you are not trying to lose weight.

OP I allow myself liquids like tea with milk, or even a light soup or a malted milk drink (100 calories)
The reason being that I can only have so much liquids and have no lasting craving to eat more like I would if I began the day with solid foods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I find the most amazing is that DCUM finds it HORRIFYING that people are essentially skipping breakfast. That’s all this is. Can you really not survive if you miss a meal? FFS.

Not the point. The point is if that you are unable to function you need to freaking fuel your body. So ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

I am no weight loss expert, but if your weight loss system depends on being so hungry you can’t function at work, I would venture to guess that will not be a sustainable system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am no weight loss expert, but if your weight loss system depends on being so hungry you can’t function at work, I would venture to guess that will not be a sustainable system.

Nor a healthy one but I guess to some people being skinny is more important

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I find the most amazing is that DCUM finds it HORRIFYING that people are essentially skipping breakfast. That’s all this is. Can you really not survive if you miss a meal? FFS.

You must not exercise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I find the most amazing is that DCUM finds it HORRIFYING that people are essentially skipping breakfast. That’s all this is. Can you really not survive if you miss a meal? FFS.

I generally skip breakfast with no problem. OP is having a problem, therefore she shouldn't skip breakfast. Can OP survive if she regularly skips breakfast? Of course she can, but she feels lousy doing it. So she should have breakfast and not feel lousy.

[Anonymous]

Everyone is different. DH can't function well unless he eats within an hour if waking up. I prefer a hard am workout on coffee with milk. But within the hour if finishing I need to eat a filling breakfast.
IF is a technique to control intake but if doesn't work for you, do something else!

[Anonymous]

OP. You need to get your body fat adapted. Google that. You can't focus because your body is addicted to carbs and hasn't figured out how to access fat stores for energy efficiently.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What I find the most amazing is that DCUM finds it HORRIFYING that people are essentially skipping breakfast. That’s all this is. Can you really not survive if you miss a meal? FFS.

You must not exercise.

You realize that people have had to do arduous exercise on an empty stomach for most of human history? Hunting and gathering food can be exhausting and for most of our history we did not have easy access to food. Before agriculture, we almost always had to find our food (by concentrating, being creative and exercising) while hungry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What I find the most amazing is that DCUM finds it HORRIFYING that people are essentially skipping breakfast. That’s all this is. Can you really not survive if you miss a meal? FFS.

You must not exercise.

I exercise 4-5 days a week. I exercise in the afternoons, on my way home from work.

I realize that SOME people may be hungry in the mornings, but that is not true for every person. I am so tired of everyone acting as if all human bodies are the exact same and react the same way to lifestyle choices. It just simply is not true. I am never hungry in the mornings, and if I force myself to eat something, I end up hungrier the rest of the day and overeat. Clearly the OP is someone who is hungry in the mornings. I also have diagnosed hormonal and insulin issues - obviously this affects how I am able to lose weight, and intermittent fasting (i.e. skipping breakfast) helps me immensely to control hunger and inflammation, and lower my blood sugar. STOP saying that every single person should eat x number of meals a day with x number of carbs, etc. Not every person will have the same results.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What I find the most amazing is that DCUM finds it HORRIFYING that people are essentially skipping breakfast. That’s all this is. Can you really not survive if you miss a meal? FFS.

Not the point. The point is if that you are unable to function you need to freaking fuel your body. So ridiculous.

Alcoholics can't function without alcohol either. It doesn't mean it isn't healthy.

Likewise, people who are addicted to sugar can't function for more than a few hours without eating.

The solution isn't to keep feeding the addiction - that's how people get fat. The solution is to break it, and you do that by eating healthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What I find the most amazing is that DCUM finds it HORRIFYING that people are essentially skipping breakfast. That’s all this is. Can you really not survive if you miss a meal? FFS.

Not the point. The point is if that you are unable to function you need to freaking fuel your body. So ridiculous.

Alcoholics can't function without alcohol either. It doesn't mean it isn't healthy.

Likewise, people who are addicted to sugar can't function for more than a few hours without eating.

The solution isn't to keep feeding the addiction - that's how people get fat. The solution is to break it, and you do that by eating healthy.

^^ meant to stay "it doesn't mean it's healthy" to drink to function