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ladyAyee
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Hi what’s everyone thoughts on fasting?
If you support it what do you recommend? If you dislike the idea can you please say why?!
Thank you
If you support it what do you recommend? If you dislike the idea can you please say why?!
Thank you
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I support Fasting, not just for the health benefits but to help me keep to my calorie goal. I fast once a week which allows me to eat all my calories in one meal. I feel it lets me treat myself without busting the bank. It's like a weekly reset and that little extra boost to my weight loss.
I did really struggle with fasting at first but over time it became much easier and I find I have energy now if I skip a meal or eat low calorie.2 -
Fasting for extended periods bothered my stomach after about day 5, gave me so much energy I couldn't sleep well, and couldn't trust a fart. I'm eating one meal a day on keto, and it is working well for me.1
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It doesn’t work for me (beyond the standard 22:00-06:30 nighttime fasting...).
I occasionally skip breakfast in favour of a bigger (planned) meal at another point of the day, but as a rule if I try fasting for the sake of it I wind up cranky, food obsessed and with a tendency to just grab “whatever” and scoff it up. Which is sort of self defeating.
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Ladies thank you so much1
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When dieting I fast by not eating breakfast and not eating after 8pm. This makes my eating window 12:00-20:00 so it's 16 hours of fasting and 8 hours of eating a day.
I feel it helps me keep within my daily goals.1 -
"Fasting" is way too general.
These days, people seem to call "fasting" (really, "intermittent fasting") something I never would have called fasting in the past -- either limiting calories to a particular part of the day (often merely skipping breakfast) or else eating low cals on a could days of the week (or the type of fasting mentioned above -- skipping meals once a week between, say, 5 pm and 5 pm the next day). I am neither blanket pro nor con on those things. I think they have no special benefits in general but can be helpful to individuals in restricting cals, and so can be a good option for them (and I would be pro in those cases) -- if interested, try and see.
Fasting for a day or so for religious reasons is something I've done and found beneficial, but never for more than that.
Right now there seems to be a fad of extended fasts (real fasts, consuming nothing but water) for weight loss, and I think those are worrying and am not in favor. I think they aren't a good approach to weight loss and also can have some negative side effects.7 -
I am liking the idea of 16 hours of fasting and 8 hours of food. Thank you!!
Ladies I appreciate you thank you!!!
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Ladies it’s me again 😂😂 have any of you herd of hair loss do to fasting?? Missing out on the essentials our bodies need I get it, but really hair loss??0
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I fast between 12 and 14 hours, overnight
I have dinner between 7 and 7:30 PM and breakfast the following day around 8 AM, later on the weekend. I don't snack before going to bed. I don't do any additional fasting unless it is for medical reasons (surgery, procedure, lab work, etc.), and I don't fast for religious reasons either.
For what I read in the forums, people that fast during the day are those that are OK with skipping breakfast, and/or those that like to have heavier meals so they stay satisfied longer, and keep caloric goals in check.
Fasting doesn't work for me, and I can keep my calorie goals without fasting. I need to have a light breakfast in the morning, and since I don't eat heavy meals, I also need to have lunch and dinner at a regular time, and a light snack in between.
Support or recommendations about fasting are very personal. If it works for you, go for it.
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Eat a decent number of calories (adequate nutrition) and stave off hair loss.....fasting or not. I agree with lemurcat2 - what do you consider fasting?2 -
Ladies it’s me again 😂😂 have any of you herd of hair loss do to fasting?? Missing out on the essentials our bodies need I get it, but really hair loss??
Could you be more specific about what you mean? Fasting is a super general word that means different things to different people. And obviously the possible affects of eating during a daily window, or of eating very low cal one or two days a week, or water fasting for a full calendar day, or not eating solids for multiple days will be quite different, and all would be called "fasting" by some people.5 -
Fasting is the fast track for eating it all back over and over and over again.
Genuine fasting is useless for the long term. If you're eating every day you're not fasting but practicing time restricted eating while eating your food within an eating window. Intermittent means irregular intervals so if you're doing the same things at the same times on the daily there's nothing intermittent about it. It is time restricted eating.
We can learn to moderate ourselves with foods and until we are willing to learn that we can there will be constant cycles of dieting and eating it all back and starting over and over again.
Using fasting as a means of overcompensation for months or years or decades of poor eating decisions will only dig you into a much deeper hole with food. Don't start none. Won't be none. Don't start another cycle of overrestriction that only leads to more rebound weight gain with friends. Fasting is useless in the big picture. Useless.
Follow the constructs of MFP and track your data points. If you want to eat all of your calories within a window of time it won't make your hair fall out or your teeth to start to loosen and your skin to start hanging like a shar-pei dog. Trying to gut out long term fasting every single week for months until you reach your dream weight has consequences. There's only choices and consequences and choosing fasting over moderating yourself with food is slapping on another temporary bandaid resulting in temporary weight loss.
Don't start none. Won't be none. Edge your way down slowly. You'll have a much better chance of actually getting there and staying there for the rest of your life. Constant cycles of losing and gaining will only decrease your chances of ever reaching your dream weight.
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kathrynhoward84 wrote: »It doesn’t work for me (beyond the standard 22:00-06:30 nighttime fasting...).
I occasionally skip breakfast in favour of a bigger (planned) meal at another point of the day, but as a rule if I try fasting for the sake of it I wind up cranky, food obsessed and with a tendency to just grab “whatever” and scoff it up. Which is sort of self defeating.
How in earth is this controversial enough to earn a “disagree”?
Is my experience of living in my body invalid? Really...!? 😖
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Ladies it’s me again 😂😂 have any of you herd of hair loss do to fasting?? Missing out on the essentials our bodies need I get it, but really hair loss??
In addition to what others have said - that restricted hours of eating daily, or some very low days with more days at maintenance calories - should not result in hair loss for healthy people, as long as calories and nutrition are adequate overall.
However, it's possible that some people may be much more sensitive to physical stressors of one sort or another, including nutritional ones, and hair thinning or loss from stress (emotional or physical) is a possibility for some such people. Perhaps even "normal" sorts of fasting could potentially be that type of stressor, for a very, very small percentage of people. Keep in mind that even sensible calorie restriction alone is a physical stressor, although a minor and very manageable one for most people.
For all of us, it's an experimental process to figure out what works best for us personally, for a variety of reasons: Practicality, nutrition, sustainability over the long haul, working with or around health conditions, satiation, energy level, and who knows what else.
Stress and individual stress tolerance could be a factor, especially considering that an individual's stress is cumulative: All the different sources of stress in our lives stack up, so individual things that are not "too much stress" at one time could be too much at another time.
Be moderate, and pay attention to how things affect you as an individual: That would be my advice.
Best wishes!5 -
Hair loss happens when you get older, it's hereditary, a medical problem - or truly starving - I have fasted off and on for a day or 2 at a time and never lost any hair - no negative side effects. Hope this helps!3
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@bluediamond5
Hair loss happens when you conduct brutally strict food hacks off and on for months or years on end. Hair loss happens when food hacks lead to disordered eating. Hair loss happens when the stress of fasting starts breaking your body down. We're not talking about a day or two. Many want to do this as a means of losing weight. A lorra lorra weight and in the long run it doesn't change anything for them. It doesn't fix a poor relationship with food and it doesn't help tall or short or medium builds find permanent weight stability.0 -
Huge fan! I have used intermittent fasting for a while now. Nothing between 7p and 11a the next day (16 hours). Every day. Cravings are gone and great energy.5
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kathrynhoward84 wrote: »kathrynhoward84 wrote: »It doesn’t work for me (beyond the standard 22:00-06:30 nighttime fasting...).
I occasionally skip breakfast in favour of a bigger (planned) meal at another point of the day, but as a rule if I try fasting for the sake of it I wind up cranky, food obsessed and with a tendency to just grab “whatever” and scoff it up. Which is sort of self defeating.
How in earth is this controversial enough to earn a “disagree”?
Is my experience of living in my body invalid? Really...!? 😖
I got a disagree for my post stating I had vegetables rotting in my compost bin
I try to see the humor in the disagrees.3
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