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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually find it more shocking that people are so uncomfortable with something as simple as skipping breakfast.  Is it completely unfathomable to you that some people just don't get as hungry in between meals? It does not matter if you are eating small, frequent meals or larger, less frequent meals. If you are taking in the right amount of calories and nutrients, you're good to go. It is amazing to me that people want to label that disordered. Are you assuming that people doing IF are severely restricting calories or something? [/quote]

I couldn't care less if people skip breakfast.  It's creating rules around it that strikes me as problematic.  If you're not hungry for breakfast, then don't eat it.  But I don't buy for a second that everyone, or even most people doing IF are just naturally not hungry.  If they were, they wouldn't need to label their eating with anything.  They'd just eat when they're hungry.  That's not IF.[/quote]

There is a theory that we have trained our bodies to be fed on these "schedules" (such as eating breakfast first thing in the morning) as opposed to simply eating when hungry. Americans don't just eat when they're hungry, so what some doctors who promote IF claim is that if you start out by "restricting" yourself to a different schedule (like 16:8), your hormones will regulate themselves and you will naturally want to eat on that kind of schedule. I am not a doctor so I cannot speak to the validity of that, but I also have PCOS which causes insulin resistance, and I have found that eating just lunch and dinner means I am so much less hungry overall. I eat normal sized meals with normal portions, and I'm more satisfied. For years, I would try to do small, frequent meals, starting with breakfast to jumpstart my metabolism and a) it never worked for me and b) it meant I was pretty much always hungry/never full.

I understand that if you don't fully understand why someone would try IF you could label it as problematic, but I actually found that for me personally, small meals were more problematic and lead to much worse behaviors, things like cheat meals. So my point is that the "rules" of IF are no different than the "rules" of having a breakfast, lunch and dinner. Those are just made up labels based on societal norms. It doesn't mean that they are better (or worse) for you. [/quote]

You guys are missing the point though.  People who are not disordered don't even use terms like "cheat meals" or think of eating as something that necessitates 'rules.' [/quote]
I don’t think anyone is missing the point. Everyone has rules about eating whether you verbalize it or not. How often do you feed your family? Do they just graze all day long? Do you eat chocolate ice cream for breakfast? Why not? Societal rules?
IF may get verbalized more because it’s somewhat out of the ordinary not to eat breakfast. I’ve done it for over a year and honestly don’t even think of it unless someone asks. Do it long enough and it’s just how you do it and not a rule.

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