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Hard to imagine skipping breakfast, lunch, coffee/tea w/milk & cream, and all snacking during the day, everyday is normal outside America. Isn't burned bread wi

by piqi 4y ago

Hard to imagine skipping breakfast, lunch, coffee/tea w/milk & cream, and all snacking during the day, everyday is normal outside America. Isn't burned bread with beans or butter for breakfast a thing in the UK? 16:8 means if your last calories are before 10PM, you wouldn't eat anything at all until after 2 PM. And this would be every day, not every other day. 12:12 might be more common, but not consistently.

sometimesno 4y ago
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- piqi 4y ago
  > sounds like a very normal day for lots of people That's the issue with your statement. I didn't survey "lots of people" and neither did you. I can't find any data to back it up, but I do see a plenty of surveys about breakfast consumption. I find it very hard to believe people are restricting their calories within 8 hours everyday, naturally just based on the conversations I've had with people. Even in this thread people say they've tried it, and found it to be too difficult. It's simple: People enjoy eating. People eat when they're bored, because of habit, or socially. No reason to believe they abstain from those things 16 hours a day. It's not like all of that 16 hours is sleep. On average, more people are getting less than 7 hours of sleep. https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/data-and-statistics/adults.html https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/data-and-statistics/adults.html Fasting is not an on/off switch, but too many calories (>10-20) in a short amount of time pushes you out of a fasted state. It's very likely people are snacking or drinking calories within those hours after waking, and before lunch. Also, some people will often over eat one day, and then under eat the next. This could help get through a 16 hour fast a few days every week. I think those times are usually over represented when self-reporting these habits.
makeitup1818w1 4y ago
It’s more common in parts Europe than you’d think I guess, with the last calories around 8-9pm until 1pm (or 11pm until 3pm a bit southwest of here) there are variants around that of course and I’m less sure how common this is everywhere in Europe, but where I’ve lived a lot of us eat like that. It’s not some fad just a long held habit, not sure where it came from or why so many of us seem to do it here. That said, it is changing by the day and I see more teenagers snacking at odd times.
geraldwhen 4y ago
In America, I find that anyone “snacking” is overweight or obese. There is no need to snack. Meals are plenty enough as is, and as this thread is indicating, maybe even one meal too many.

by piqi 4y ago

sometimesno 4y ago

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piqi 4y ago
> sounds like a very normal day for lots of people That's the issue with your statement. I didn't survey "lots of people" and neither did you. I can't find any data to back it up, but I do see a plenty of surveys about breakfast consumption. I find it very hard to believe people are restricting their calories within 8 hours everyday, naturally just based on the conversations I've had with people. Even in this thread people say they've tried it, and found it to be too difficult. It's simple: People enjoy eating. People eat when they're bored, because of habit, or socially. No reason to believe they abstain from those things 16 hours a day. It's not like all of that 16 hours is sleep. On average, more people are getting less than 7 hours of sleep. https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/data-and-statistics/adults.html https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/data-and-statistics/adults.html Fasting is not an on/off switch, but too many calories (>10-20) in a short amount of time pushes you out of a fasted state. It's very likely people are snacking or drinking calories within those hours after waking, and before lunch. Also, some people will often over eat one day, and then under eat the next. This could help get through a 16 hour fast a few days every week. I think those times are usually over represented when self-reporting these habits.

makeitup1818w1 4y ago

It’s more common in parts Europe than you’d think I guess, with the last calories around 8-9pm until 1pm (or 11pm until 3pm a bit southwest of here) there are variants around that of course and I’m less sure how common this is everywhere in Europe, but where I’ve lived a lot of us eat like that. It’s not some fad just a long held habit, not sure where it came from or why so many of us seem to do it here. That said, it is changing by the day and I see more teenagers snacking at odd times.

geraldwhen 4y ago

In America, I find that anyone “snacking” is overweight or obese. There is no need to snack. Meals are plenty enough as is, and as this thread is indicating, maybe even one meal too many.