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Meal frequency and timing in health and disease (2014)

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Re: Meal frequency and timing in health and disease (2014)

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Post by fulafel »

randlet wrote: post #18
ideonexus wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to the Intermittent Fasting site, 8 hours of sleep is part of your fasting: http://antranik.org/intermittent-fasting/ This groks with everything I've learned about dieting and exercise. Some people like to work out in the afternoon because their bodies are at peak-warm-up. While I like to exercise first thing in the morning because my body has to find energy in my fat stores after fasting through eight hour…

"Try weighing yourself before bed and when you wake up. You'll find you lose a pound or more for exhaling carbon in your sleep" I've tried this a bunch of times and have seen up to two pounds difference on rare occasions! A significant fraction of the weight loss is due to water loss though. (and technically it's carbon dioxide, not "carbon", although with climate change being blamed on "carbon" we may have already l…

Technically just carbon is what you lose, on the overight timescale. Oxygen comes in and goes out in every breath.

Re: Meal frequency and timing in health and disease (2014)

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Post by jmnicolas »

profeta wrote: post #14

i'm too lazy to read all the papers on this subject, so indulge me: Do any measure brain "output"? i bet earlier humans would eat a lot, then walk for miles until finding another spot, or stuff them on seals and then sleep on some warm cave and do nothing until the hunger was bad enough to justify another hunt on the cold outside, etc. I doubt you can live that way with a 9-5 job.

I did a 15 days total fast (ie no food, only water) last year. As far as I can tell my brain output remained the same, I could function plainly as a dev.

I was not 100% physically (say 80%), but nothing major (I'm not practicing any sport though).

Re: Meal frequency and timing in health and disease (2014)

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Post by tgb »

There's an on-going timing-of-eating study going on at UPenn [1] that is looking for volunteers. They provide you with 4 months of food (you get a say in what you get) and they tell you when to eat it (though not how much or exactly what). As well as compensation. If you're in the Philladelphia area, it might be interesting to participate or to save money doing this for a good cause. This is the kind of study we need more of and it's hard to get volunteers to give that big a commitment. I don't believe that they're testing fasting, though.

[1] http://www.med.upenn.edu/weight/research.shtml

(I'm unrelated to this, just know someone participating.)

Re: Meal frequency and timing in health and disease (2014)

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Post by brahmwg »

jsonmez wrote: post #19

I fast until 5:00 PM every day and then only eat one meal. I've been doing this for about 1.5 years. I have been able to maintain a large degree of muscle and I am pretty ripped. Easy to adopt your lifestyle to and then you don't really have to count calories anymore. Plus, I never have to waste time eating or cooking breakfast or lunch.

Cool, my own anecdata matches yours. I also tend to have a daily fast until well into sundown, consuming only fresh ginger tea with lemon during the sunlit hours. Albeit sometimes if I'm truly famished I will eat something light (banana, baby carrots, etc) but it doesn't happen often. Been basically doing this pattern for 2+ years, and I definitely notice my mind staying clearer during the fast, and I am in the best physical condition of my life, running faster times and lifting heavier weights than ever. Those interested should check out "the warrior diet", which seems to suggest following a similar feeding routine.

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Post by jcfrei »

I've switched to two meals a day with approximately 11hrs in between for about 1 year now. I also noticed a much higher sensitivity to insulin: If I eat sugary snacks now I experience a much bigger drop in blood sugar levels. I get really tired about 1.5 hrs after eating three cookies. Interestingly it only lasts only for about 30 minutes and I'm back to normal. I can only imagine what would have happened to people from 200 years ago if they were exposed to our sugar levels...

Re: Meal frequency and timing in health and disease (2014)

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Post by xhrpost »

brahmwg wrote: post #34
jsonmez wrote: post #19

I fast until 5:00 PM every day and then only eat one meal. I've been doing this for about 1.5 years. I have been able to maintain a large degree of muscle and I am pretty ripped. Easy to adopt your lifestyle to and then you don't really have to count calories anymore. Plus, I never have to waste time eating or cooking breakfast or lunch.

Cool, my own anecdata matches yours. I also tend to have a daily fast until well into sundown, consuming only fresh ginger tea with lemon during the sunlit hours. Albeit sometimes if I'm truly famished I will eat something light (banana, baby carrots, etc) but it doesn't happen often. Been basically doing this pattern for 2+ years, and I definitely notice my mind staying clearer during the fast, and I am in the best…

Interesting seeing this, I recently was at a life balance seminar for work where they tried to encourage people to eat more often through the day. They discouraged going without food for a while and cited that sumo-wrestlers would use a technique of only eating at night in order to gain their massive amounts of weight.

Re: Meal frequency and timing in health and disease (2014)

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Post by heed »

jsonmez wrote: post #19

I fast until 5:00 PM every day and then only eat one meal. I've been doing this for about 1.5 years. I have been able to maintain a large degree of muscle and I am pretty ripped. Easy to adopt your lifestyle to and then you don't really have to count calories anymore. Plus, I never have to waste time eating or cooking breakfast or lunch.

What is your weight and height if you don't mind me asking? How many calories per day are you ingesting?
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