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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 dhimes »

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…

What time of day do you work out?

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

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Post by raisedbyninjas »

jsonmez wrote: post #48
mrfusion wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How long did it take to get comfortable with that? Do you feel completely fine all day? No hunger, low energy?

Took me about 2 weeks. Then it became easy. A little hunger, but you get used to it. Helps that you can look forward to a bigger dinner meal.

Taking in 1800+ calories in one meal would make me lethargic. Does your food baby ever make you crash?

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

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Post by Nadya »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #59
Nadya wrote: post #54

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If you're going to bother filling each cooking utensil with water you're better off giving them a quick rinse with a spray faucet. As it's faster to spray each utensil than to fill each container . Your "simple" method is a worse version of method 1 and doesn't actually solve the problem.

Oh chill. Just put a little water in, drop it in the sink. 2 seconds max. And for a guy that doesn't cook, you sure are an expert.

I handwashed dishes for 9 years. I also cooked dinner for the family (my mother and three sisters, stepfather was usually still at work) daily. I was also left with the dishes (as we did not have a mechanical dishwasher).

Not liking to cook has fuck all to do with not knowing how to cook. People who make that assumption and then are judgmental about people who dislike to cook piss me off. My issue is not that I've never cooked in my life or that I don't cook.

Sure, I could solve this by getting frozen lasagna and baking it for an hour ten. Absolutely no cleaning involved there! But that isn't cooking so much as preparing a pre-made meal.

What's something you don't like doing so I can judge and belittle you for it?

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

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Post by jsonmez »

raisedbyninjas wrote: post #62
jsonmez wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Took me about 2 weeks. Then it became easy. A little hunger, but you get used to it. Helps that you can look forward to a bigger dinner meal.

Taking in 1800+ calories in one meal would make me lethargic. Does your food baby ever make you crash?

Nope. Not when I'm fasted all day before the meal.

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

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Post by brahmwg »

dhimes wrote: post #61
brahmwg wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

What time of day do you work out?

Usually afternoon or evening, once I feel warmed up.

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

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Post by aberridge »

ideonexus wrote: post #16
mei0Iesh wrote: post #11

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That includes sleep? If you sleep 8 hours, awaken at 6 AM, then eat at 2 PM, it's a 16-hour restriction period? I naturally go longer than that without eating each day. If you skip breakfast and lunch times, and include the hours you're asleep, it's easy to "fast" for closer to 20 hours or more every day. I wouldn't force that though, I think everyone is different, living different lifestyles, and their optimal eatin…

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…

Most of the weight you lose is water, you lose ~100 grams of weight from carbon loss (0.22 lbs, from 0.012g of carbon per breath).

Veritasium has a nice video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL2e0rWvjKI

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

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

Nadya wrote: post #63
JoeAltmaier wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh chill. Just put a little water in, drop it in the sink. 2 seconds max. And for a guy that doesn't cook, you sure are an expert.

I handwashed dishes for 9 years. I also cooked dinner for the family (my mother and three sisters, stepfather was usually still at work) daily . I was also left with the dishes (as we did not have a mechanical dishwasher). Not liking to cook has fuck all to do with not knowing how to cook . People who make that assumption and then are judgmental about people who dislike to cook piss me off. My issue is not that I've…

I understand that some folks don't like dishwashing. Just countering the hyperbole that gets thrown around. I too washed dishes for a decade. I didn't end up resentful and angry.

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

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Post by craftkiller »

jcfrei wrote: post #37

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 f…

Since there's still uncontacted tribes in the world that experiment could still be performed.

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

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Post by jmnicolas »

littleweep wrote: post #49
jmnicolas wrote: post #32

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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).

This is fascinating to me. How much wait did you lose? Did your hunger stay at approximately the same level? Did eating destroy your system after your fast?

After 2 or 3 days, I wasn't hungry anymore, it was just my brain that wanted the comfort of eating especially when I was bored. But if you manage to get over the first days, the willpower needed to go on until the end is not that great.

Physically I could have done at least 15 more days but I would have needed to have a busy life. When idle my brain was tricking me, I ended watching a lot of cooking videos on Youtube, preparing all the good meals I would do once I restarted to eat.

I felt weak in the morning, but once I started to drink about one liter (about a quart) of water after waking up it disappeared.

I lost 11.8kg (about 26 pounds) but of course I regained everything once I stopped the fasting. I didn't fast for weight loss (though I wouldn't have minded if the loss was permanent, I'm clearly overweight) but for the supposed global health benefits. Honestly I didn't see much change, it was a bit disappointing.

Before this long fast I was fasting every Monday and had done a successful 3 days fast. However since then, I wasn't able to fast even one day a bit like my willpower is gone.

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

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Post by xs1t0ry »

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 does a general meal look like for you? I want to get into this kind of eating schedule--it really fits my lifestyle and routine--but I'm concerned about being able to get the calories and nutrients I need from just a single meal. Any other tips?
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