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> For many people there's no snacking or eating outside regular meals Just not many people in the US...
Unfortunately the rest of the world is catching up quickly.
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We call the cafes. They can serve coffee, tea, etc, have people talk, listen to music, etc.
I’d love to see a cafe (in my area at least) with a very social “hacker” vibe. Used books on all walls, electronic parts to build with, chess sets, events and meetups. A place a kid could come with $15 bucks and find a good tutor maybe (corkboard for community postings, jobs, clubs) I was reading about how back in the day original coffee houses were a meeting place for socialites and thinkers alike to share ideas. I’…
Some still are in Europe at least. But they're closing down here as victims of modern lifestyles. We had (until the 80s) 4-5 cafes here where everybody who was everybody in culture frequented -- including different generations (20+ to 70+ year old people).
Some problems:
1) real estate prices in city center makes it impossible to keep renting for such a purpose or (if the cafe owner also owns the building) more profitable to sell the place and have it be made into a clothes shop or similar.
2) rising rents or (in other cases) deterioration of city centers, means that many intellectuals, playwrights, musicians, writers, academics, etc chose to move in other neighbours, which makes it more difficult (especially with added traffic) to frequent the same city center cafe anymore.
3) some owners just die and their kids are either clueless and turn the place into some "trendy" BS losing the clientele, or want to sell it and move on, or they simply don't have kids to pass it on, and nobody gets the legacy they've created (though sometimes new people step it who respect the original vision -- sometimes even after a few years of the shop being closed).
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Surely people can make money around it. You cannot sell a void [0] but you can very effectively sell void consulting and magazines. [0] even this is debatable
I was brainstorming with a friend about creating an alternative social environment to replace restaurants for fasters, but couldn't come up with any good ideas.
A "restaurant for fasters" is called "buffet": fasters need to eat a lot in between their fasts (assuming that fasts are frequent).
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>4pm meal can be a cheese burger, Chinese food or paki food (like chicken Karahi) I do an evening workout around 7pm with kettle bell swings to burn the sugar. If I can make a suggestion...if possible continue the fast into the workout. If you find you don't have the energy to get through the workout or performance suffers try replacing the meal with a sugarfree pre-workout to get through, then eat the carbs with som…
YES. So i workout 12-1pm in the afternoon in a fasted state. The eve workout 12 min , is to burn any extra sugar i may have in my blood stream from eating at 4pm. I am with you. My pre-diabetes status is now gone. I think i may have to make IF a life long diet. I have NEVER felt better. I am 170 5' 10" solid I "was" 184 when i had the pre-diabetes diagnosis.
Congrats. I hope you continue to be inspired and inspire others on your journey.
I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes. I have been on the intermittent fasting thing for about 6 months. I started with 14 hours then 16 hours and now 18-20 hour fast. I dropped 10 pounds. I have a history of diabetes in my family. I took the 28andME DNA test and it said i have a predisposition to diabetes. The doc said to me. You have pre-diabetes just continue to workout and watch what you eat and your insurance does n…
So did you reverse your pre-diabetes? It's hard to tell from this message. You mention that you feel better and that it's "working for me" but how can you know unless you get that blood work done? You may subjectively feel better but it may not be making a dent in your health. Honestly, what most likely will reverse your prediabetes is that you are now working out more, eating less, and dropped 10 pounds. The IF was…
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Interesting. I did an "animal-product only" diet for about six months, and I began to feel sorry for everyone else and their inability to think deeply. I was in an almost constant state of enlightenment. Then my buds convinced me to go on a 2000 mile road trip, and after the first stop at Wendy's I lost it, and haven't had the will to go back. It's been like 4 years now.
animal-product only ? No veggies?
If people are interested in learning more about fasting, I put together a few visual guides on it here - http://impossiblehq.com/nutrition/intermittent-fasting I also highly recommend the zero fasting app for tracking. Super simple and really clean app that makes tracking fasts simple. Start small and see how it goes. I find the 16/8 routine tends to work best for me personally with 36 hour fasts sprinkled in every c…
Do you find that you're able to do cognitively demanding tasks while fasting? Even small fasts seem to sap my concentration and critical thinking. Once I eat again I feel like I think better.
On a carbs based diet, it feels like there's an animal inside me craving for food all the time. Then I feel drowsy and sleepy if I don't eat anything for even a few hours. As a developer, that's terrible. I feel really bad.
On a fat-based diet (e.g less than 40g of carbs/day), I feel absolutely great, and I don't feel hunger. When lunch comes, I feel just empty, but no craving at all, no hunger. Then the fasting becomes easy.
The caveat: switching from carbs to fat is not pleasant, takes a few days and isn't any fun. If you break it with a piece of cake, then you'll have to make the switch all over again and it won't be pleasant again.
Intermittent fasting has a nice advantage - nobody can make any money off of it. This gives it an inherent legitimacy. Contrast all other fad diets, and essentially every supplement ever sold.
This is patently false. Martin Berkhan created a very lucrative coaching platform with Intermittent Fasting: https://leangains.com/ Many books have been written on IF for profit: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Guide-Fasting-Intermittent-A... https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Stop-Brad-Pilon/dp/177511080X/ref... And countless others.
Taking your example, Lean Gains is a niche application for men trying to improve their physique, and it includes exercise and motivational components. This is pretty different to the Atkins diet for example, where the book is the diet, and they don’t really exist independently.
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YES. So i workout 12-1pm in the afternoon in a fasted state. The eve workout 12 min , is to burn any extra sugar i may have in my blood stream from eating at 4pm. I am with you. My pre-diabetes status is now gone. I think i may have to make IF a life long diet. I have NEVER felt better. I am 170 5' 10" solid I "was" 184 when i had the pre-diabetes diagnosis.
>My pre-diabetes status is now gone. Congrats. I hope you continue to be inspired and inspire others on your journey.
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>4pm meal can be a cheese burger, Chinese food or paki food (like chicken Karahi) I do an evening workout around 7pm with kettle bell swings to burn the sugar. If I can make a suggestion...if possible continue the fast into the workout. If you find you don't have the energy to get through the workout or performance suffers try replacing the meal with a sugarfree pre-workout to get through, then eat the carbs with som…
Jeez, or just eat 3 healthy balanced meals a day and stop obsessing over gimicks and fad diets. I can't imagine our ancient ancestors worrying about fasting or being keto.
Of course our ancient ancestors didn't have to "worry" about fasting or being keto, just like they didn't have to "worry" about getting enough cardio and exercise. Yet we do, because otherwise our modern conveniences will keep killing us and making us sick. Fasting and Keto are two answers to the question of "How do we better replicate the way ancient Humans lived?"