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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, if you don't understand the difference between a dieting method and a life threatening mental illness, DCUM can't help you. [/quote]

+1000

The stupidity of the OP is astounding. Anorexia is under-eating- not consuming calories to need your body's needs. IF is eating during a specific time frame which can also be combined with calorie restriction.

Btw, the idea that people have to eat 3 meals a day is completely arbitrary. It's also a remnant of a time when society was mostly agrarian. The point is to consume enough calories to meet your body's needs. You can do that in 1 big meal, 3 meals, 4-6 small meals, etc...

Personally, I'm not hungry in the morning so I don't eat breakfast. I'm the hungriest in the afternoon, so I eat a big lunch-it's my biggest meal of the day. Hunger-wise, I can go either way about dinner but I like eating dinner so I usually eat a light dinner.

I have been eating this way since I was old to have a say over my meals. That was long  before I knew what IF was. [/quote]
Dammit. Why is this so hard to understand. Not eating because your aren’t hungry is cool. Not eating because you ‘cant’ is an entirely different ball game. [/quote]

I am sorry, but what do you think a diet is?  It is a set of rules by which people eat.  According to you we should all just follow our eating urges and whether that puts us at 130 pounds or 300 pounds at least we do not have an eating disorder.  People make changes and follow rules to improve their health and how they look at feel.  I may choose to eat 1600 calories a day and I have learned about health benefits from eating with a limited eating window so I will eat all of those calories within a 8-10 hour window.  I also have learned that exercise is good for me so I joined a gym and I make a plan to go there 4 times a week and put that in my schedule.  Those are a lot of rules, none of them unhealthy.  But, according to you, I would have an eating disorder because i am doing all those things because of following rules, not my “feelings”.

Why is that you are completely wrong so hard to understand?[/quote]

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