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[quote=Anonymous][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. [b]But I don't buy for a second that everyone, or even most people doing IF are just naturally not hungry. [/b]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]

Oh I totally believe that if people eat ONLY when they are actually hungry that IF isn't a big deal. I have been a meal skipper my whole life because I am always busy and hate breakfast foods. I hated breakfast as a child, I hated it as a young adult and still do not like to eat in the morning. In the morning, I just want a cup of coffee and to get on my way. I just don't get hungry until the end of the day so I often skip lunch. When I did or do eat lunch it isn't because I am actually hungry. The same thing with snacking. I'll occasionally smack if its something tasty but I am not eating the chips because I'm hungry.

People have driven me nuts my whole life about how can I skip breakfast. They are shocked to learn I skip breakfast and lunch. I've had nutritionist friends lecture me on how I must be destroying my metabolism and even though I'm not fat at some point it will catch up if I don't re-adjust and start eating 3 meals and grazing. Guess what -now they are ALL doing IF to lose weight.

I think way more people eat not because they are actually hungry but because they :

a:) enjoy the taste and its a pleasurable activity for them
b.) they confuse being thirsty with being hungry
c.) they have had it drilled into them that they must eat breakfast and lunch
d.) they use eating as a mental break from work or whatever activity they need a break from doing

IF would not be so easy for so many if real hunger was involved. 
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