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Intermittant fasting

EttaMaeMartin
EttaMaeMartin Posts: 303 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
If the last meal of my day is at 5pm. and i do not eat again till 7-8am, would that be considered fasting. how many hours does it require to be fasting?

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  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    edited April 2017
    Fasting is not eating, so yes, it would be considered fasting.

    It's less than 16 hours, so it wouldn't be considered any named fasting "protocol".

    But it really makes no difference. It makes the same kind of difference as putting on left shoe first, or right shoe first, makes.
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  • EttaMaeMartin
    EttaMaeMartin Posts: 303 Member
    thanks, so if i went more hours in the morning than i would have only an hour window to eat. do you do it daily or alternate? are the benefits less eating or...?
  • Ironandwine69
    Ironandwine69 Posts: 2,432 Member
    That would be 14-15 hours of fasting. So yeah in a way it's fasting. But I would do at least 16 hours of faating.
  • ActivatedAlm0nds
    ActivatedAlm0nds Posts: 169 Member
    14 hours is actually a recommended start for women
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    EttaMaeMartin wrote: »
    thanks, so if i went more hours in the morning than i would have only an hour window to eat.
    What do you mean?

    do you do it daily or alternate?
    If it's the plain ol 16:8/18:6, I "do" it most days.

    are the benefits less eating or...?
    It may (or may not) be easier to stick to eating less.
    "You have to eat less if you want to lose/maintain" still applies.
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