How to cope with inability to focus when intermittent fasting?

[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.

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.

Agree with this 100%. I don't eat breakfast (except a whey protein before my weight training - does this count)? Then eat my first real meal around noon/1PM/whenever I get hungry. But if OP's blood sugar is crashing that bad, eat a reasonable protein-filled breakfast.

[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.

Eating disorder, party of one. Do you realize you just compared eating a normal, everyday meal to being an alcoholic?

That is some really disordered thinking right there. Holy shitballs.

Blah blah blah, IF works for some of you. Clearly it is not working for the original poster, so she should probably look for something else.

[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.

Eating disorder, party of one. Do you realize you just compared eating a normal, everyday meal to being an alcoholic?

That is some really disordered thinking right there. Holy shitballs.

Blah blah blah, IF works for some of you. Clearly it is not working for the original poster, so she should probably look for something else.

Having to eat sugar to function every few hours is disordered eating. The fact that it's normal eating for Americans doesn't make it healthy.

Holy shitballs, are you really that stupid?

[Anonymous]

We weren't talking about sugar; we were talking about skipping breakfast. You introduced sugar because of your bogus theory that people who need food for cognitive fuel are sugar addicts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:IF isn't magic. It's just eating less.

If you're hungry in the mornings, eat some hard-boiled eggs or some other high-protein breakfast. Focus on real foods. Don't snack.

If you're dieting, plan your meals, track your calories on myfitnesspal or some other free software/app, eat around 20% less than your TDEE maintenance.

Stop spreading misinformation. Intermittent fasting isn't about eating less. It's about hormones. It's about keeping insulin as low as possible so your body can burn fatty acids for energy rather than store energy as fat, which insulin tells your body to do.

I actually eat eat more calories daily with IF than I ever did with calorie restriction diets like Weight Watchers. But because I eat an LCHF diet withib an 8 hour eating window most days, I have lost 60 lbs. it's NOT about eating less. It's about eating less often during the day.

OP, have you tried bulletproof coffee or cream or MCT oil? I have tea with cream and MCT most mornings. It keeps me totally saturated until at least noon and the MCT is amazing for mental focus.

[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.

You are an ignoramus, PP. I ate fewer than 1400 calories a day and worked out at least an hour a day for a decade and still got fatter until I was 100
Pounds overweight and gave up. Lots of doctors just said I was lying. Fuck you and them. Why would I lie to someone who could help me, or here in an anonymous forum? Calories in calories out is a LIE. I eat 500-1000 MORE calories a day now and have already lost 60 lbs. my metabolism is way higher and I work out less. It's about hormones. I had rampant insulin resistance and I never even had a doctor who tested my fasting insulin all that time. Now that I've brought it down, I can live on Fat and burn fat. That's what IF and LCHF are about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:IF isn't magic. It's just eating less.

If you're hungry in the mornings, eat some hard-boiled eggs or some other high-protein breakfast. Focus on real foods. Don't snack.

If you're dieting, plan your meals, track your calories on myfitnesspal or some other free software/app, eat around 20% less than your TDEE maintenance.

Stop spreading misinformation. Intermittent fasting isn't about eating less. It's about hormones. It's about keeping insulin as low as possible so your body can burn fatty acids for energy rather than store energy as fat, which insulin tells your body to do.

I actually eat eat more calories daily with IF than I ever did with calorie restriction diets like Weight Watchers. But because I eat an LCHF diet withib an 8 hour eating window most days, I have lost 60 lbs. it's NOT about eating less. It's about eating less often during the day.

OP, have you tried bulletproof coffee or cream or MCT oil? I have tea with cream and MCT most mornings. It keeps me totally saturated until at least noon and the MCT is amazing for mental focus.

Sorry for the typo...I meant *satiated, not saturated!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We weren't talking about sugar; we were talking about skipping breakfast. You introduced sugar because of your bogus theory that people who need food for cognitive fuel are sugar addicts.

I realize the PP you are responding to said "having to eat sugar" but it's really not eating literal sugar. Blood sugar spikes when you eat - and of course, it varies how much it spikes depending on what you eat. Carbs cause a large spike. So IF is geared toward regulating hormones and BLOOD sugar. If your blood sugar is swinging so severely that you are "lightheaded" after missing one meal? I think that's a sign of a body that doesn't regulate itself well... that is often a symptom for diabetes.