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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here.  For those who have been doing IF, a couple questions...

1.  Did you just jump right into it and fast for 2 days?  How rough a start is it?  I work and have young kids and worry about being angry and/or unfocussed.
2.  If you fast for entire days or multiple days, do you also exercise?  Only exercise on days you eat?  Or don't exercise at all?

Thanks.[/quote]

1. I started with 12, then 14, then 16, then 18, then 24 hour fasts.  Took a couple of months to get to 24.  Just doing 14 was a big accomplishment for me at first!

2.  [b]I do two 36-42 hour fasts most weeks.[/b]  Amazingly, exercising while fasted is great!!!  I have more energy and growth hormone spikes when you feast after fasting, so it's great for muscle growth too.[/quote]

Despite what Dr. Fung says, fasting is not a long-term, sustainable diet.  [/quote]
That would have been news to both of my Indian grandmothers and women of their generation. They kept weekly religious no-food fasts for almost their entire adult lives and lived into their nineties.[/quote]

Weekly religious fasts are typically a day, right?  Or Ramadan, which is a limited fast over a month?  Not eating only 2 or 3 days out of the week, as PP is doing.  Sorry, that's abusing your body and it will catch up to you.  [/quote]

Not the pp, but another Hindu Indian poster and my mom and grandparents also fasted 2 days a week for pretty much their entire adult lives.  Not just one day a year, not just a set few weeks a year but all the time. My cousin also fasts, though he only does a once a week fast.

It's very common for Hindus to fast at least one day a week, every week.  Some do more like 2 or 3 days, it's up to them.[/quote]

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