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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I doubt these people do intense exercise and/or work office jobs.[/quote]
You clearly do not know many Indians.[/quote]

Actually, I do.  PP, were the mom and grandparents you mention physically active people?[/quote]

How about dropping your assumptions about an whether Hindus are physically active or not?

Since you must know- my mom was an immigrant to this country that came here with less than $10. Worked multiple jobs for long hours as a nurse which is quite physically demanding.

My father died when I was a kid and she became a single mom to me and my siblings working even more hours than before to provide for us.

My grandfather worked a physically demanding job and the household chores my grandmother did- well let’s just say no washing machine to launder the clothes, no dishwasher, hand grinding whole spices, etc. Not exactly just sitting around.

Like I said, fasting is very common in Hinduism and has been for centuries. It’s written about in the Vedas which is over 5,000 years old.

Suggesting that people are actually MORE active today, with all of our modern conveniences, than in the past is ridiculous.

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Fasting was common throughout human history. People living 1,000, 5,000, 10,000 years ago did not stop every two hours for a snack and there lives were 100 times more arduous than the lives we live today.[/quote]

Eating 2 or 3 meals per day isn't fasting, despite the catchy name.  You don't have to eat snacks.  Now, aren't you healthier?[/quote]

Early humans did not get 2-3 meals every day on a regular basis. There are still hunter-gatherer societies living today and they may miss a meal if the hunt fails or if they fail to find enough roots for everybody. They may not call it IF, but that is how humans ate for most of our history. Feast, famine, feast famine, etc. Now we do it artificially and call it IF. [/quote]

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