What will happen if i don't get a 12 hour fast in-between the night and breakfast the next day?
Sammi_Nicole16
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I've heard it's beneficial to get a 12 hour fast in between the last thing you eat at night and breakfast the next day. For example, if the last thing you eat as at 8pm, you should wait until 8 am for breakfast the next day. Is there anything beneficial to your nutrition if you do this? And will anything happen if you don't?
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Eat whenever you want. Eat below your calorie goal.0
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Whoever told you that is unfortunately incorrect. Current science supports meal timing having no impact on weight loss/gain/maintenance...with the caveat that for some, meal timing can influence satiety and therefore the total amount that we eat.
For example, many people practice intermittent fasting. There are several different programs, but as an example, one might fast for 16 hours (including when they sleep) and eat all of their calories within 8 hours. Some find that this helps them rein in eating. Others would find this intolerable and the delay in eating would send them into a binge.
Others might find that eating breakfast and many small meals or snacks throughout the day, including right before bed, helps them to eat fewer total calories.
Personally, I delay eating until I'm actually hungry, usually around 1 or 2 p.m. If I eat breakfast anyway, then I get hungry sooner and end up eating more.
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I am the same as snuggle smacks. Breakfast makes me hungrier so I eat dinner and then have lunch around 11.30am.0
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Meal timing is irrelevant to weight loss. Eat when you're hungry.0
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Eat when you are hungry. Don't look at the clock to tell you when you should eat. Timing of meals has no effect on weight loss.0
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Generally the intermittent fasting protocol is 16 hours, some take that out even longer. You would be best to read and do some research.0
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I don't think it really matters.0
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I think the main reason people suggest a nighttime fast of a certain amount of time is related to the fact that you shouldn't eat (a meal) close to bed time. Personally, I eat between 7 and 7:30, at noon, and between 5-6. Every once in a while, I'll eat dinner later, but those are just the times I typically eat. A nighttime fast isn't going to help or hurt you in the long run as long as you are eating right and drinking plenty of water.0
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Calories can't tell time. Eat whenever works best for you.0
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You should look up the 5:2 diet (Michael Mosley) or intermittent fasting, where you restrict calories 2 days out of 7. Window fasting is another one, where you eat within an 8 hour window and fast for 16 hours daily. Nutritionally, weekly calories average out at about 1500 per day so you are not starving yourself, but the results of studies show benefits for slimming and general health that you don't get with dieting 7 days a week.
So I would definitely say that a 12 hour fast daily will not hurt you in the least and there is definitely science there to back it up! At the end of the day the best diet is one that you stick to so do what works for you.0 -
The body goes into repair-mode during periods of fasting. It's a lot like building muscle. To gain muscle you have to damage it first. Fasting also puts the body under stress and it responds very positively (body focuses on cell repair instead of cell production). Did you know that life expectancy *increased* by over 6 years during the Great Depression? True story. Going without food sometimes is good for your health! There's a good YouTube vid about aging and fasting. Search for "eat fast and live longer with Michael Mosley".-3
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Earth_echo 100 % agree with you there. I've been researching intermittent fasting for over 2 years and the health benefits are wonderful!-1
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You will probably turn into a pumpkin...0
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earth_echo wrote: »The body goes into repair-mode during periods of fasting. It's a lot like building muscle. To gain muscle you have to damage it first. Fasting also puts the body under stress and it responds very positively (body focuses on cell repair instead of cell production). Did you know that life expectancy *increased* by over 6 years during the Great Depression? True story. Going without food sometimes is good for your health! There's a good YouTube vid about aging and fasting. Search for "eat fast and live longer with Michael Mosley".
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When your body isn't busy digesting food it can put all it's energy into fixing/healing/regenerating other parts of your body.0
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cwolfman13 wrote: »You will probably turn into a pumpkin...
Do you have a scientific study to back up this claim?
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People lived longer during the Great Depression because they were practicing intermittent fasting? People lived longer at that time because they didn't have stressful jobs. Wait, maybe that's not quite true, either. Correlation != causation.earth_echo wrote: »The body goes into repair-mode during periods of fasting. It's a lot like building muscle. To gain muscle you have to damage it first. Fasting also puts the body under stress and it responds very positively (body focuses on cell repair instead of cell production). Did you know that life expectancy *increased* by over 6 years during the Great Depression? True story. Going without food sometimes is good for your health! There's a good YouTube vid about aging and fasting. Search for "eat fast and live longer with Michael Mosley".0 -
Actually, the information regarding life span during the Great Depression is technically true, but misleading. Life span increased by 6.2 years above what it was prior to the Great Depression. So, "life expectancy rose from 57.1 in 1929 to 63.3 years in 1932." That's nowhere near our current lifespan of 78.7 years as of 2013. The increase during the Great Depression is usually marked up to less work-related stress and accidents, as fewer people were being hired and trained and there was less work to do. Also, more sleep since there was more time to sleep.0
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earth_echo wrote: »The body goes into repair-mode during periods of fasting. It's a lot like building muscle. To gain muscle you have to damage it first. Fasting also puts the body under stress and it responds very positively (body focuses on cell repair instead of cell production). Did you know that life expectancy *increased* by over 6 years during the Great Depression? True story. Going without food sometimes is good for your health! There's a good YouTube vid about aging and fasting. Search for "eat fast and live longer with Michael Mosley".
What are you talking about?
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It has to pay the cover charge.
I joke. I kid.
If you don't go twelve hours without eating, you don't. That's it. Nothing happens.
The are only two food-related certainties. If you pick up a baby after you're dressed in something nice, the baby will regurgitate it's last meal onto your clothing. If you leave a plate of food unsupervised in my home, you will come back to find some of it off the plate because the cat made a mess while she grabbed some.0 -
christinev297 wrote: »When your body isn't busy digesting food it can put all it's energy into fixing/healing/regenerating other parts of your body.
Please do a google search on the human digestive system and learn how long it actually takes food to travel through completely. Unless you have not ingested anything for days on end, your body is constantly busy handling some portion of the digestive process. The idea that if you don't eat for a few hours, your body will take a break from digestion and focus on other things is nonsense.0 -
It is true about the cellular repair during fasting. Mice fed on alternative days live longer than mice fed every day, just like any animal on a restricted diet long term will live longer than those who eat normal amounts.-1
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SnuggleSmacks wrote: »Whoever told you that is unfortunately incorrect. Current science supports meal timing having no impact on weight loss/gain/maintenance...with the caveat that for some, meal timing can influence satiety and therefore the total amount that we eat.
For example, many people practice intermittent fasting. There are several different programs, but as an example, one might fast for 16 hours (including when they sleep) and eat all of their calories within 8 hours. Some find that this helps them rein in eating. Others would find this intolerable and the delay in eating would send them into a binge.
Others might find that eating breakfast and many small meals or snacks throughout the day, including right before bed, helps them to eat fewer total calories.
Personally, I delay eating until I'm actually hungry, usually around 1 or 2 p.m. If I eat breakfast anyway, then I get hungry sooner and end up eating more.
Do what works for you.
I agree with this. Fasting does not aid weight loss, but it does provide many health benefits to the person that can fast. I am on a ketogenic diet, and I eat sporadically day by day and week by week. Like today....I didn't eat until about 14:30 and I woke up at 08:30. I probably will not eat again until about 22:00, even if I exercise. It is not a forced fast....I just will not be hungry until then.
Weight loss is all about calories in vs calories burned. No one diet is the answer. Every type of diet is just a method of achieving that goal of a calorie deficit. But any type of fasting is just for the health benefits. Although, it is possible to feel hungry even though a) the food is not metabolized completely and b) your body has not used the amount of calories that you ate previously. Overeating happens when you eat calories at an overall rate faster than the rate your body is burning them.0 -
LumberJacck wrote: »It is true about the cellular repair during fasting. Mice fed on alternative days live longer than mice fed every day, just like any animal on a restricted diet long term will live longer than those who eat normal amounts.
Your post crack me up
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Hmmmmm...no friends, no profile, no weight to lose. I smell a troll.
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Not sure why they were flagged so hard on this comment. Fasting does NOT hurt you and DOES have some healthy benefits if done correctly. You fast every night ie not eating from the time you go to sleep until the time you wake up. You don't have to eat breakfast if you choose not to and you CAN eat just one meal a day without negative effects to your body as long as you get all your calories and such in in that one meal. If your calorie count is high then it will be harder to eat that much at one sitting but people do it all the time. Or you can just stop eating at 8pm and don't eat again until 8 am. See how it works for you. I've quit eating at 4 pm and didn't eat again until noon the next day, and I'm still alive and still doing this weight loss thing. It's a personal preference on how and when you eat your food. You don't have to eat every 4 hours, you don't have to eat breakfast. But if that works for you then do it. This is your new lifestyle, find something that works for you. Eat when you want, eat what you want, just eat less than you were eating before. For me I find eating less processed foods and staying away from complex carbs (with the exception of veggies and fruits) helped me in those first two years. I'm kinda back to eating some of that stuff and I'm not losing at all. Also staying away from a lot of sugary stuff.
By processed foods I mean things that come from a box, premade things that you just add a couple more ingredients to and you have a meal. I also mean fast foods. Does this mean NEVER eat that kind of stuff? No it just means to limit your intake. But for some eat what you want when you want just less of it. I'm just telling you what worked for me.earth_echo wrote: »The body goes into repair-mode during periods of fasting. It's a lot like building muscle. To gain muscle you have to damage it first. Fasting also puts the body under stress and it responds very positively (body focuses on cell repair instead of cell production). Did you know that life expectancy *increased* by over 6 years during the Great Depression? True story. Going without food sometimes is good for your health! There's a good YouTube vid about aging and fasting. Search for "eat fast and live longer with Michael Mosley".
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LumberJacck wrote: »It is true about the cellular repair during fasting. Mice fed on alternative days live longer than mice fed every day, just like any animal on a restricted diet long term will live longer than those who eat normal amounts.
um...people aren't mice and my grandma lived to be 89 years old when she died EATING NORMAL AMOUNTS OF FOOD! Lol...
I would hazard a guess that most people who live to be 89 do so by eating normal amounts of food in conventional intake patterns - not by eating alternate days only.
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cwolfman13 wrote: »You will probably turn into a pumpkin...
+1 and tell all your friends.0
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