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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]An honest question. I've posted before but not specifically about this. When do you think IF slips into disordered eating? Instead of a system of keeping calories in moderation or in check?

I'm thinking about a cousin who keeps encouraging and I feel like she is looking so much healthier but she eats an average of 4 times a week, excluding coffee. A pretty decent sized meal but not a binge by any stretch, not even what I would say was a big meal. [/quote]

I think it’s pretty straightforward, it is disordered eating if you are becoming malnourished, if it’s making you feel bad but you do it anyway, or if you are becoming physically frail.  Compare that to 16:8–which is really just skipping breakfast and having a late lunch—and you can see the difference.  As for your friend, I’d say multiple multi-day fasts per week is really pushing the envelope.  Four to five meals per week must include one 72-hour or two 48 hour fasts, and that’s pretty extreme.

One-meal-a-day is actually pretty easy and provides no reason for health concern, so anything less extreme that seems nowhere close to disordered to me so long as the meals are relatively substantial.  (If you are eating just lettuce, or just skittles, that’s disordered but not an IF issue). [/quote]

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