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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's CRAZY to me about all these posts is that the concept of "six meals a day" or "eat before you get hungry" has been drilled into us for so long, that people believe that is healthy. You should consider facts.

1) "Starvation mode" is a myth, and there is no such thing as keeping your metabolism up by eating frequently
2) You can function very normally for several days without harm to your body, assuming you are otherwise healthy
3) Humans often misinterpret hunger cues for many reasons, which you can read about if you want

To say that you absolutely cannot function without food for 12 hours is disordered to me, just as it would be disordered to say I ate a candy bar so I have to run 2 miles to burn it off or I feel weak and am having hunger pains, but I'm going to suffer through it because I want to lose weight. 
Most of us have probably gone a full day without eating inadvertently, maybe due to being busy at work or travelling without access to food, or something like that, and functioned just fine.

You can feel that fasting doesn't work for you, because not everyone's body processes insulin the same way. But you cannot make the claims that physiologically, everyone's bodies need food constantly. It just isn't true. [/quote]

+1000 Yet, trainers and nutritionists spout this line of bull ALL the time.  Adults do not need to eat like newborn babies.  Healthy grown bodies can, in fact, do without food for a stretch of time.  What you don't want to do is walk around with chronically jacked up blood sugar.  [/quote]

Who is saying that adults need to eat like newborn babies?  The all or nothing thinking on many of these posts is telling.

Look, if IF works for you, great.  But the claim that everyone who doesn't do it is a fat fatty who can't control their eating suggests unhealthy attitudes towards food (and fat).  Do you not see that?[/quote]

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