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Re:Why Intermittent Fasting Isn’t Effective or Healthy by ivanche on Saturday May 15, 2021 @03:58PM (#27168448)
One can be on intermittent fasting and eating regularly. I ate at 12, 14.30, 16.30 and 19.30 every day. Also anecdata (i.e. sample size of 1), but IF helped me tremedously with both weight gain and loss, at different times in life of course.
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Re:Why Intermittent Fasting Isn’t Effective or Healthy by new_guy on Saturday May 15, 2021 @04:15PM (#27168585)
Not to be a pedant but if you're eating regularly (AND minimum 4 times a day) then you're really not fasting at all.

You're just watching what you eat, two very different things.

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Re:Why Intermittent Fasting Isn’t Effective or Healthy by ivalm on Saturday May 15, 2021 @04:20PM (#27168616)
You are wrong, he had a 16 hour period between last and first meal, which is a standard IF “fast”.
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Re:Why Intermittent Fasting Isn’t Effective or Healthy by the_dune_13 on Saturday May 15, 2021 @04:22PM (#27168642)
Wouldn't 16 hours break classify as fasting?

This is normal 16-8 IF with additional rigidity of schedule.

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Re:Why Intermittent Fasting Isn’t Effective or Healthy by throwaway667555 on Saturday May 15, 2021 @04:20PM (#27168617)
This is a 7 hour feeding window
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