Anonymous wrote:I just came off a 46 hour fast, and I want to do it again. It was freeing to not have to eat.

I've never considered eating to be such an onerous task.

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Anonymous wrote:Since this is a parenting site, I am perplexed/concerned by how folks justify not eating 3/7 days in front of their children, particularly their girl children.

Meal time is family time. Do these women just sit there with an empty plate and serve their kids?

I wake up first so kids don't know whether I ate breakfast. After that, everybody's schedule is completely different so on weekdays, we just can't have a meal all together. On weekends, I don't fast and eat with them. No problem at all for us )

It just sounds like you're hiding an addiction.

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Anonymous wrote:Since this is a parenting site, I am perplexed/concerned by how folks justify not eating 3/7 days in front of their children, particularly their girl children.

Meal time is family time. Do these women just sit there with an empty plate and serve their kids?

So, even for religious reasons, nobody should ever fast?

There's a long road between religious fasting - which is occasional, and has a religious purpose - and staying skinny by not eating for half the week, every week.

I’m 54 years old. 5’5 and 115 pounds (trying to get back up to 120). And a fitness trainer. You people are nuts. Your body needs food. Fasting occasionally for religious purposes is very different from this IF nonsense. What kind of message do you think you are sending to your children? Fasting is not good for you. Keto is horrible for you. Low-Carb is bad for most people.

Your body knows what it needs to function at its best. Most people have just learned to ignore those signals. You crave specific foods for a reason. Eat a variety of foods in reasonable amounts. And move your body every single day. If you aren’t out working a physically demanding job every day, you need to add vigorous exercise daily.

There is no way you will be overweight if you listen to your body, eat a variety of foods mindful of portion size, and move your ass daily.

Anonymous wrote:Since this is a parenting site, I am perplexed/concerned by how folks justify not eating 3/7 days in front of their children, particularly their girl children.

Meal time is family time. Do these women just sit there with an empty plate and serve their kids?

I wake up first so kids don't know whether I ate breakfast. After that, everybody's schedule is completely different so on weekdays, we just can't have a meal all together. On weekends, I don't fast and eat with them. No problem at all for us )

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Anonymous wrote:Since this is a parenting site, I am perplexed/concerned by how folks justify not eating 3/7 days in front of their children, particularly their girl children.

Meal time is family time. Do these women just sit there with an empty plate and serve their kids?

So, even for religious reasons, nobody should ever fast?

Of course not, but that's an easy answer for kids, and it is also something that most families will expect of their child when they reach a certain age. It is also not something only the women do, and not something done 3 out of 7 days a week.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm probably taking this conversation off its course, but for anyone who does intermittent fasting: do you drink coffee during your fast time and if so, do you add milk/ cream to it? I have been doing a combo of IF and weight watchers and it has been working. I've found IF to be pretty easy, EXCEPT that I need a splash of milk (not cream) in my morning coffee. And I need my coffee. Am I undoing the effectiveness of IF? I'm losing weight (slowly), but I'm curious to know if its just the WW plan and I've rendered my IF efforts ineffective from my tablespoon of 2% during fasting hours.

Many people who do IF actually start the day with bulletproof coffee (I think it is butter and coconut milk or something - not my thing) and they seem to do fine. My understanding is that pure fat is less likely to break your body's fasting state than protein or carbs. Essentially, though, if what you are doing works, then its working! The major IF discussion boards say that keeping your calories to under 500 a day "counts" as a fasting day, regardless of WHAT you eat...though I'd imagine sugar would spike your insulin pretty quick, and preventing an insulin response is the goal of IF.

No, you mistake keto for IF. On keto, some people choose to drink bulletproof coffee - but that's definitely not IF. Because the amount of calories in that butter is way higher than 50 calories.

Anonymous wrote:Since this is a parenting site, I am perplexed/concerned by how folks justify not eating 3/7 days in front of their children, particularly their girl children.

Meal time is family time. Do these women just sit there with an empty plate and serve their kids?

So, even for religious reasons, nobody should ever fast?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm probably taking this conversation off its course, but for anyone who does intermittent fasting: do you drink coffee during your fast time and if so, do you add milk/ cream to it? I have been doing a combo of IF and weight watchers and it has been working. I've found IF to be pretty easy, EXCEPT that I need a splash of milk (not cream) in my morning coffee. And I need my coffee. Am I undoing the effectiveness of IF? I'm losing weight (slowly), but I'm curious to know if its just the WW plan and I've rendered my IF efforts ineffective from my tablespoon of 2% during fasting hours.

The common consensus is that anything under 50 calories is still considered fasting. So it all depends on how much milk you add. One tablespoon is nothing.

This isn't a "common consensus" - it's your belief.

It's what every website about fasting says.

Since this is a parenting site, I am perplexed/concerned by how folks justify not eating 3/7 days in front of their children, particularly their girl children.

Meal time is family time. Do these women just sit there with an empty plate and serve their kids?

I meant previous PP, obviously. The one who fail to understand what constitutes fasting. Although it's pretty simple.

Anonymous wrote:I'm probably taking this conversation off its course, but for anyone who does intermittent fasting: do you drink coffee during your fast time and if so, do you add milk/ cream to it? I have been doing a combo of IF and weight watchers and it has been working. I've found IF to be pretty easy, EXCEPT that I need a splash of milk (not cream) in my morning coffee. And I need my coffee. Am I undoing the effectiveness of IF? I'm losing weight (slowly), but I'm curious to know if its just the WW plan and I've rendered my IF efforts ineffective from my tablespoon of 2% during fasting hours.

Many people who do IF actually start the day with bulletproof coffee (I think it is butter and coconut milk or something - not my thing) and they seem to do fine. My understanding is that pure fat is less likely to break your body's fasting state than protein or carbs. Essentially, though, if what you are doing works, then its working! The major IF discussion boards say that keeping your calories to under 500 a day "counts" as a fasting day, regardless of WHAT you eat...though I'd imagine sugar would spike your insulin pretty quick, and preventing an insulin response is the goal of IF.

Anonymous wrote:I googled fasting definition for you.
Please educate yourself.

MerriamWebster

1: to abstain from food
2: to eat sparingly or abstain from some foods

Encyclopedia Britannica

Fasting, abstinence from food or drink or both for health, ritualistic, religious, or ethical purposes. The abstention may be complete or partial, lengthy, of short duration, or intermittent.

McMillan dictionary

to eat no food or very little food for a period of time, often for religious reasons

To the PP. Again.

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Anonymous wrote:There is legit research that fasting is good for authopagy, why are some pps here so resistant to even looking it up?

Fasting is currently a tech sector fad and completely out of control. People are fasting for days because tech executives post on Instagram and claim they have super powers from starving themselves.

Well, hopefully people aren't that stupid to believe that? Our brains needs sugar to function. Whether that sugar is from meat, carbs, fruit is irrelevant. Starved brain is not going to be productive!

Why don't you read the research? You are calling other people stupid while you clearly are uneducated on this issue yourself.

You seriously need to eat something!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm probably taking this conversation off its course, but for anyone who does intermittent fasting: do you drink coffee during your fast time and if so, do you add milk/ cream to it? I have been doing a combo of IF and weight watchers and it has been working. I've found IF to be pretty easy, EXCEPT that I need a splash of milk (not cream) in my morning coffee. And I need my coffee. Am I undoing the effectiveness of IF? I'm losing weight (slowly), but I'm curious to know if its just the WW plan and I've rendered my IF efforts ineffective from my tablespoon of 2% during fasting hours.

The common consensus is that anything under 50 calories is still considered fasting. So it all depends on how much milk you add. One tablespoon is nothing.

This isn't a "common consensus" - it's your belief.