How long do you fast?
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6-7 hours, plus however long I sleep, so usually 14-15 hours.0
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I usually don't eat anything for the first couple hours of the day, and then have something that keeps me filled until lunch. I seem to do better when I avoid letting myself get too hungry.0
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8-12 hours. Depends on what time I have to be at work. Early, then I grab a banana or protein bar. Later, I usually wait until 9-9:30 to eat. And I usually have a snack/dessert about 9PM.0
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16 to 20 hours.0
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It varies. 7-10 hours. Sometimes I eat ridiculously late (I got home at 10:30 last night and ate around 11, although that's rare, more typically I eat between 9 and 10), and I have been eating breakfast around 5:30 am, since I leave early to work out and have started eating before. I've been thinking about trying to occasionally go to a 5:30 am exercise class, which would push breakfast earlier, although presumably I'd have to figure out how to eat/get to bed earlier in that case.
What this means is that it's quite possible for me to have a longer "fast" between lunch (around 12) and dinner in a particular day, although I sometimes have a yogurt or something around late afternoon if I know it's going to be one of those days.0 -
I eat about every 18-24 hours.
yesterday afternoon at about 2 I had soup and this morning I had a chicken biscuit and some hashbrowns. Next time I eat will probably be eggs tomorrow morning.0 -
Pretty sure most of these aren't considered "fasts". I usually eat dinner or a post workout snack between 6-8pm and eat breakfast between 6-8am. So really 10-12 hours of not eating. But then I'm sleeping about 8 of those. Pretty sure that is normal and not considered fasting. During the day I eat every 3 hours.0
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I think she's just playing off the derivation of the word "breakfast."0
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18-20 hrs. Feeding time is between 12 pm and either 4 or 6 pm.0
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About 16 hours, but that's just how my appetite works. It's not something I do intentionally. I also exercise in that time.0
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This is not every day. This is just 3-5 days a month. The days surrounding them are healthy and home cooked meals. Even if it's one big meal at the end of the day. My calorie goal on those days is 1680. It's cool, I've been maintaining for 2 years now and could stand to lose another 20 or so slowly.
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Laurend224 wrote: »18-20 hrs. Feeding time is between 12 pm and either 4 or 6 pm.
This is my favorite split.
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THIS!Need2Exerc1se wrote: »
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Well, I don't eat after 10pm and I eat breakfast at 5am, so I fast for 7 hours, give or take.
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Eh...9 to 11 hours I guess. Nothing by design. I just usually have my last evening snack around 9 or 10pm and eat breakfast somewhere from 6:30 to 8:30 simply because that's how my schedule rolls.0
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Pretty sure most of these aren't considered "fasts". I usually eat dinner or a post workout snack between 6-8pm and eat breakfast between 6-8am. So really 10-12 hours of not eating. But then I'm sleeping about 8 of those. Pretty sure that is normal and not considered fasting. During the day I eat every 3 hours.
People just don't think about night fasting as fasting, but sure it's fasting, even if you are asleep. It's not a play on words ("break fast"). Hell, 5:2 is considered fasting, eating 500 calories on "fast days" is not a fast.
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I don't fast... I sleep.
But about 12-14 hours I guess.0 -
that sounds really awful actually.FatFreeFrolicking wrote: »
I mean, I'm sure I WOULD eat food while sleeping if I could. I've not yet learned how to master this skill.
You can make it happen if you really want to. My bf went through a period where he'd wake up with oreo crumbles all over him. He body willed him towards food at night.
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I usually eat my last bit of food around nine or nine-thirty and drink a half a cup of milk before working out in the morning.0
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Depends. Typically around 15-16 hours. I'm not an IF'er, but my schedule and hunger seems to follow a 16:8 schedule. I'm usually done eating for the day around 6-7pm, I "break" fast with coffee only, and eat my first meal around 10-11am.0
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I fasted 24 hours yesterday, doing another 24 today. 8 pm to 8 pm, about 1500 kcals0
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doing 20 hour fast 4 hour feeding window atm0
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Usually dead on 11 hours. I eat my treat right around 8:45 (so done at 9pm) and eat breakfast when I get to work at 8am.0
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Somewhere between 20-24 hours daily. So either one huge meal a day, or eat all my calories within four hours.0
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10 or 11 hours0
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Propably about 12-14 hours. I don't like to eat my dinner too late and I work out in the morning, so my breakfast isn't that early.0
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I usually have a snack at around 11pm, and don't eat again until between 12:30 and 1pm the next day. I just find I do a lot better the more I delay breakfast. The days I've had to eat breakfast early I spend the day hungry.0
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I normally have my last 'treat'/evening snack (tea and a little biscuit or sweet) around 9-10pm, and I try to have breakfast somewhere between 9-10am, so that's 12-13 hours-ish. Works quite well for me.0
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generally 12-13 hours0
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Wrong!kommodevaran wrote: »Pretty sure most of these aren't considered "fasts". I usually eat dinner or a post workout snack between 6-8pm and eat breakfast between 6-8am. So really 10-12 hours of not eating. But then I'm sleeping about 8 of those. Pretty sure that is normal and not considered fasting. During the day I eat every 3 hours.
People just don't think about night fasting as fasting, but sure it's fasting, even if you are asleep. It's not a play on words ("break fast"). Hell, 5:2 is considered fasting, eating 500 calories on "fast days" is not a fast.
You are taking a very narrow view of fasting. It can also be a restriction and not just eating nothing. 5:2 is a form of intermittent fasting with two heavily restricted days a week.
One definition: An abstinence from food, or a limiting of one's food, especially when voluntary and as a religious observance; fasting.
So 5:2 is a form of intermittent fasting where you limit your food two days a week.
Lent is a fast.
Ramadan is a fast.
Nil by mouth before an operation is a fast.
And as you say the period between your last meal of the day and first meal next day is a fast.
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