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Re: Intermittent Fasting Is Gaining Acceptance

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Post by tdkl » Wed, Mar 09, 2016, 9:25 AM UTC

andreirailean wrote: post #117

I've been eating mostly in the 5pm-10pm window for the last 6 months after watching a few TED talks and related videos. Adjustment took about a week or two. I don't feel hunger during the day but when u get home I eat all I want. Lost 10 kilos and am feeling great. Every other morning I go for a 4K run and every day I go for a swim in the ocean. Don't feel any hunger after the run or swim. I cook breakfast for my fam…

> - socially awkward. Most social gatherings involve eating. All celebrations are eat-feasts.

And a popular theme is that fast food is taking a toll in recent decades. Well if basically most gatherings involve food, this being advertised with instapics etc. becoming a norm, why do people wonder that the avg. weight is rising ? After starting IF, I'm actually getting to a point where I'm annoyed because everytime I visit somewhere, people insist to offer something to eat.

Re: Intermittent Fasting Is Gaining Acceptance

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Post by miseg » Wed, Mar 09, 2016, 9:32 AM UTC

pc2g4d wrote: post #28

jonnathanson wrote: post #9

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I'm with you. Breakfast has always felt very skippable for me. My body doesn't seem to crave it in any way. I'd grown up listening to the conventional wisdom: eat a hearty breakfast, or else you'll be so hungry you'll snack all morning and afternoon. But I never really found that to be the case. Really, I experienced the opposite effect, as you've described. Whenever I eat breakfast, I find myself hungry again anywhe…

I basically never eat breakfast and see no negative effect, but when I tell people this they immediately get concerned about my wellbeing. The "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" idea is deeply ingrained in our culture.

I agree.

But it makes me think too, other cultures have a strong emphasis on breakfast, and that doesn't necessarily include cereals (but it would include bread). Like France, Germany, and Finland.

I'm in Ireland, where people are definitely under the Kellogg's influence.

Re: Intermittent Fasting Is Gaining Acceptance

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Post by dubyah » Wed, Mar 09, 2016, 9:40 AM UTC

pc2g4d wrote: post #28

jonnathanson wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm with you. Breakfast has always felt very skippable for me. My body doesn't seem to crave it in any way. I'd grown up listening to the conventional wisdom: eat a hearty breakfast, or else you'll be so hungry you'll snack all morning and afternoon. But I never really found that to be the case. Really, I experienced the opposite effect, as you've described. Whenever I eat breakfast, I find myself hungry again anywhe…

I basically never eat breakfast and see no negative effect, but when I tell people this they immediately get concerned about my wellbeing. The "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" idea is deeply ingrained in our culture.

That was the topic of last week's Healthcare Triage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syleh_6Aopw

Re: Intermittent Fasting Is Gaining Acceptance

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Post by miseg » Wed, Mar 09, 2016, 10:46 AM UTC

> Critics say that the science is not yet strong enough to justify widespread recommendations for fasting as a way to lose weight or boost health, and that most of the evidence supporting it comes from animal research.

Should that not be the other way around, that more research is needed before recommending you eat three large meals a day plus snacks?

Re: Intermittent Fasting Is Gaining Acceptance

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Post by henriquemaia » Wed, Mar 09, 2016, 10:59 AM UTC

I've known (and have been following a form of fasting diet) about this since I watched this documentary: Eat, Fast and Live Longer (BBC Horizon, 2012-2013)[1]

> Michael Mosley has set himself a truly ambitious goal: he wants to live longer, stay younger and lose weight in the bargain. And he wants to make as few changes to his life as possible along the way. He discovers the powerful new science behind the ancient idea of fasting, and he thinks he's found a way of doing it that still allows him to enjoy his food. Michael tests out the science of fasting on himself - with life-changing results.

You can watch it here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvdbtt_eat-fast-live-longer...

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01lxyzc

Re: Intermittent Fasting Is Gaining Acceptance

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Post by _khau » Wed, Mar 09, 2016, 11:07 AM UTC

pc2g4d wrote: post #28

jonnathanson wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm with you. Breakfast has always felt very skippable for me. My body doesn't seem to crave it in any way. I'd grown up listening to the conventional wisdom: eat a hearty breakfast, or else you'll be so hungry you'll snack all morning and afternoon. But I never really found that to be the case. Really, I experienced the opposite effect, as you've described. Whenever I eat breakfast, I find myself hungry again anywhe…

I basically never eat breakfast and see no negative effect, but when I tell people this they immediately get concerned about my wellbeing. The "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" idea is deeply ingrained in our culture.

Agreed.

I listened to the advice of family and friends for the early part of my life and ate breakfast as others do, but it always made me feel a bit bloated, and then shortly after, actually hungry where I wouldn't have been otherwise.

Left to my own devices I do not eat in the morning, I just drink perhaps a coffee, but mostly water and green tea. I'll start getting hungry a few hours after waking up, which is ideal because that is right around lunch time.

Then I'll eat after work, or after my thrice-weekly lifting session, with perhaps a small snack later on. Usually something like cheese, cucumber and chutney on wholegrain crackers.

My stomach just does not seem 'awake' in the mornings and never has done. When I did eat in the morning it always felt like a bit of a chore.

I'm read somewhere once that hunter-gatherer humans never really ate in the morning either, and our bodies go through some process/reaction after waking from sleep that gives us a burst of energy, enough to go out and forage or hunt, and that eating first thing in the morning is a recent thing in our evolution.

Makes perfect sense to me given my own personal experience.

Re: Intermittent Fasting Is Gaining Acceptance

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Post by ionised » Wed, Mar 09, 2016, 11:09 AM UTC

hackaflocka wrote: post #122

pc2g4d wrote: post #28

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I basically never eat breakfast and see no negative effect, but when I tell people this they immediately get concerned about my wellbeing. The "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" idea is deeply ingrained in our culture.

A conspiracy theory states that breakfast is the most blah blah was invented by the agri-lobby to up the sales of cereal etc.

They pretty much succeded in convinving people that eggs were bad and breakfast cereals were good for so long, so I can believe it.

Re: Intermittent Fasting Is Gaining Acceptance

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Post by pjc50 » Wed, Mar 09, 2016, 11:18 AM UTC

Seemingly everyone is talking about this in the context of 'gains' as part of a high-exercise lifestyle. What about the rest of us on the bare minimum of exercise? Is it possible that simply skipping breakfast has all these health benefits?

Re: Intermittent Fasting Is Gaining Acceptance

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Post by wastedhours » Wed, Mar 09, 2016, 11:48 AM UTC

voraciousg wrote: post #123

These are dangerous as they naturally lead to a fast/binge type eating pattern . if you're not careful you'll Indoctrinate yourself into a new hell. I've been lifting and experimenting with my nutrition for over a decade. Just be careful, it goes from regime to disorder quick.

I did the "no breakfast/no dinner/reasonable lunch" thing for about 6 months - I'd also flag you have to be ultra careful when trying to "normalise" your eating habits too.

I intended to lose about 2 1/2 stone, but ended up losing 3 because I was fighting my body's urge to EAT ALL THE THINGS and slowly bring intake back up when going back to three meals a day.

Re: Intermittent Fasting Is Gaining Acceptance

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Post by mcculley » Wed, Mar 09, 2016, 1:10 PM UTC

nostromo95 wrote: post #116

mcculley wrote: post #95

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No, I run 5k every day, either on the road or the treadmill, but not necessarily in a race. I have been running a 5k race almost every weekend for the last five months. I live in Orlando, Florida. We'll have plenty of races to choose from every weekend until the summer.

Why not just say 'I run 3 miles every day' if you're American? Saying 5k (also 10k, 1600m, generally any metric units) implies a race or hard workout.

Because I intentionally set my workout run to be 5 kilometers so that it matches an actual road race. Yes, I'm an American and we generally use miles as a distance unit, but the vast majority of our road races are 5ks.