Intermittent Fasting

Anonymous wrote:
I'm confused. Are you only eating between 12 and 8PM? You're not eating breakfast and you're not snacking after 8 when you can eat. Which 8 hours did you choose to actually eat?

1.Daily Intermittent Fasting: a 16/8, as it is informally known, where you condense your eating into a period of eight hours each day. This is my preferred method, personally speaking, and often translates to one meal around noonish and another six or seven hours later. I don’t eat outside the window (normally!), and I pass the morning hours with delicious, appetite-suppressing caffeine.

Yes, I see where my original wording would have been confusing. I eat only between about noon and 8pm.

I am doing this partly as a means of dieting, since I picked up a few pounds in December, but also for health. I know people say this about every crackpot diet trend, but there is good science behind intermittent fasting both as a way to burn fat and for overall health and longevity.

And of course this is in addition to (not instead of) eating a healthy and well balanced diet. Some of us need a little extra something to help keep us from overeating.

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02/06/2014 15:28

Subject: Intermittent Fasting

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I may try this but I would spread the calories out throught out the day, eg500 calories in 24 hours.

Whatever, but that isn't fasting at all. That is just a crazy low calorie diet.

The idea behind have a stretch of hours of fasting is that your body kicks into burning its glycogen stores after a certain point, rather than carbs you have recently eaten. So to keep eating an little and a little all day would impede that transition. There is more to it, so I will post some links that discuss.

http://www.muscleandbodymag.com/features/intermittent-fasting-is-it-for-you/ - also discusses 16:8 method

http://www.naturalhealth365.com/natural_healing/brain-power.html

http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2012/05/04/fasting-effects-on-human-growth-hormone.aspx

When beginning I eased into it, keeping raw almonds and almond milk on hand if I couldn't make it any further on a fast day. I find weekday fasts easier than weekends.