I try and avoid eating until 5pm or so; always funny to see people concerned about "missing breakfast" as if you have to eat food to have immediate energy.
I imagine some wake up at 3am to eat a spoonful of sugar to make sure they don't starve to death in their sleep.
It runs deep. My wife said that on an episode of the Gossip Girl remake someone remarked that "intermittent fasting is another word for eating disorder." People are SHOCKINGLY hostile to not stuffing carbs into their face hole every two hours. This will sound like a lie but a dude came within inches of doing violence to me at a bar because I said there are health benefits to fasting. Funny thing is that dumb motherfucker is a type ii diabetic (for the record he brought up the fasting). After becoming fat adapted it feels like you're living in a world of heroin addicts.
I've seen the same thing, it's so weird. My best guess is that most people realize, if only on a subconscious level, how much they are slaves to their appetite, and most people are not REALLY happy with how they eat and how they look.
Now I'm curious, is Intermittent Fasting more popular with rightwinger/libertarian types?? It's the ultimate in "your willpower controls your body." If you believe in your own individual power to improve your life, you believe you can make positive changes.
If you're a lefty who belives it's societal or environmental or out of your control, why even bother trying?
It probably is more right wing only because it is somewhat heterodox. While orthodox science backs the effectiveness and benefits of fasting the orthodox culture is absolutely hostile towards it so it should be more popular among the right who are clearly more comfortable rejecting the mainstream culture.
IF doesn't actually take much willpower. It takes some willpower to get it going but once you are fat adapted it's autopilot. Calorie counting while on a high carb modern diet takes a huge amount of willpower because you're always hungry. One meal a day once you're used to it takes no willpower because eventually you don't even get hungry until meal time, you only have to worry about preparing one meal and it's very difficult to overeat.
The "fat positive" weirdos are half right in rejecting calorie counting because while CICO can't be wrong it takes so much willpower and misery compared to just rejected the modern high carb six meals per day mentality. Where they go terribly wrong is in assuming if CICO doesn't work then nothing will.
Breakfast at 8 AM and dinner at 8 PM with nothing in between is normal for a sedentary person. You don't get hungry if you don't eat too many carbs at a meal.
Are you low carb/high fat as well? If not it makes it a lot easier in my opinion. I did intermittent fasting for most of the 2010s but fell off the wagon for a couple years when I was eating too many carbs and repeatedly failed at getting it going again until I realized I needed to cut my carbs and then it was no problem.
Of course even without changing macros IF is a really good change and sticking with it will make it easier as you go, but LCHF and IF go together really well.
I try and avoid eating until 5pm or so; always funny to see people concerned about "missing breakfast" as if you have to eat food to have immediate energy.
I imagine some wake up at 3am to eat a spoonful of sugar to make sure they don't starve to death in their sleep.
It runs deep. My wife said that on an episode of the Gossip Girl remake someone remarked that "intermittent fasting is another word for eating disorder." People are SHOCKINGLY hostile to not stuffing carbs into their face hole every two hours. This will sound like a lie but a dude came within inches of doing violence to me at a bar because I said there are health benefits to fasting. Funny thing is that dumb motherfucker is a type ii diabetic (for the record he brought up the fasting). After becoming fat adapted it feels like you're living in a world of heroin addicts.
I've seen the same thing, it's so weird. My best guess is that most people realize, if only on a subconscious level, how much they are slaves to their appetite, and most people are not REALLY happy with how they eat and how they look.
Now I'm curious, is Intermittent Fasting more popular with rightwinger/libertarian types?? It's the ultimate in "your willpower controls your body." If you believe in your own individual power to improve your life, you believe you can make positive changes.
If you're a lefty who belives it's societal or environmental or out of your control, why even bother trying?
It probably is more right wing only because it is somewhat heterodox. While orthodox science backs the effectiveness and benefits of fasting the orthodox culture is absolutely hostile towards it so it should be more popular among the right who are clearly more comfortable rejecting the mainstream culture.
IF doesn't actually take much willpower. It takes some willpower to get it going but once you are fat adapted it's autopilot. Calorie counting while on a high carb modern diet takes a huge amount of willpower because you're always hungry. One meal a day once you're used to it takes no willpower because eventually you don't even get hungry until meal time, you only have to worry about preparing one meal and it's very difficult to overeat.
The "fat positive" weirdos are half right in rejecting calorie counting because while CICO can't be wrong it takes so much willpower and misery compared to just rejected the modern high carb six meals per day mentality. Where they go terribly wrong is in assuming if CICO doesn't work then nothing will.
Breakfast at 8 AM and dinner at 8 PM with nothing in between is normal for a sedentary person. You don't get hungry if you don't eat too many carbs at a meal.
Seems pretty commonsensical to me.
I started figuring out that that was my problem.
I ate 2 bags of apples a week.
Hungry? Apple. Hungry? Apple. Hungry? Apple. Hungry? Apple. Hungry? Apple. Hungry? Apple.
I suppose the good news is that you can't really get fat eating vast quantities of apples. You can only get apple.
While you were eating apples, did you ever get randomly harassed by doctors?
No, not even one dentist.
Are you low carb/high fat as well? If not it makes it a lot easier in my opinion. I did intermittent fasting for most of the 2010s but fell off the wagon for a couple years when I was eating too many carbs and repeatedly failed at getting it going again until I realized I needed to cut my carbs and then it was no problem.
Of course even without changing macros IF is a really good change and sticking with it will make it easier as you go, but LCHF and IF go together really well.
This is outdated info. Even on keto you can put muscle on just as readily.
I can't even think about food until after noon. People that stuff themselves first thing in the morning baffle me.