my secretary says she is on diet - no food between noon and 8 pm. i am like... isn't that like eating lunch before noon and go home and have dinner after 8?

People eat way too much now. 3 “square” meals and 2 snacks; 6 small meals; etc. I like that the intermittent fasting craze is helping to “normalize” less eating. There is no reason you must eat all the time. If you aren’t hungry- don’t eat. If you are hungry- eat.

I feel like the intermittent fasting craze is just people who want to severely restrict calories and/or be obsessive about their food in an "acceptable" way vs. being labeled as having an eating disorder.

There is actually a lot of science regarding the impact of fasts, including shorter (14-16 hour) fasts, on insulin, a hormone that has everything to do with weight and diabetes, literally a health epidemic right now.

This may be helpful to people other than you. Why does it bother you so much?

If you read Dr Fung’s work, he speaks to the time before snacking and round the clock eating she most people had a 12 hour fast every day as a better time health wise, even though no one called it IF then. It was just how most people ate when the levels of obesity were much lower.

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Anonymous wrote:Hmm, people who have written books on IF don’t agree with you that only 24+ hours is a fast, and there are studied benefits to shorter fasts. I’m not sure you know of which you speak - which like PP said is okay - but don’t pretend you do.

Who did these studies? Fung?!

DP yes he's the famous one but what's your point? That his work doesn't count?

Go hungry for a day, or go home.

That's right!!

Breakfast is literally named for breaking your fast upon waking. But tell me more...

Yes, I agree. My BIL does a multiple day fast. Rather me than him!

I’m with you, OP. That’s just skipping breakfast!

I've only ever had coffee for breakfast as an adult. I prefer a bigger meal late morning and another late afternoon. Some people just eat when they eat. It's not always a thing.

I agree OP.

Skipping breakfast has been a fad diet since forever.

I remember my mom doing it in the 80s.

No one called it fasting. It was called “skipping breakfast.”

In this thread I learn that "something I don't like / understand" = "political correctness".

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think you need a hug, and some carbs.

I do need wheat! Stupid allergy. Wheat allergy, not celiac! I am at Wegmans and eating cauliflower! I am wheatangry! And it's in everything. My diet actually sucks!

Sucky diets suck. They make us mad and angry. There is only so much cauliflower a person can eat.

Thanks!

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Anonymous wrote:I think you need a hug, and some carbs.

I do need wheat! Stupid allergy. Wheat allergy, not celiac! I am at Wegmans and eating cauliflower! I am wheatangry! And it's in everything. My diet actually sucks!

Sucky diets suck. They make us mad and angry. There is only so much cauliflower a person can eat.

Anonymous wrote:I think you need a hug, and some carbs.

I do need wheat! Stupid allergy. Wheat allergy, not celiac! I am at Wegmans and eating cauliflower! I am wheatangry! And it's in everything. My diet actually sucks!