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[alfred russel]

I think Garbon is on to an important point, you don't have to continually feed yourself to avoid feeling slightly hungry. It's a perfectly natural feeling that can be listened to or ignored if you wish.

If I stay up late, I habitually do to bed, stomach slightly growling, maybe feeling a bit hungry. But it doesn't kill me and the downsides to eating just before bed I don't like.

Net effect of not eating after 9/10 pm is I sometimes don't eat for a whole 10-12 hours, hasn't killed me and I think it helps promote a more sensible approach to weight/diet, both psychologically and physiologically. 

We should have a nutrient thread, with a side order of diet issues. In addition to diet in it's wider sense.

Your body is designed to fast periodically. There are tons of benefits to that.

I don't think it is good to intentionally fast. You body copes, but it copes by finding energy from sources like your muscles, and slowing your metabolism by doing things like making you lethargic to the point you don't want to exercise.

[The Brain]

OMG I'm fasting!

[alfred russel]

For very short-term weight loss, I recommend climbing a mountain and not eating.  Very short-term.

I mean, I realize that the five pounds I've put back on owe more to the fact I've rehydrated than the 3000 pizza calories I ate Sunday, but it's still disheartening.

Let me guess:
Saturday: climb a mountain, no proper meals
Sunday: serious hunger sets in, so you scarf down a 3,000 calorie pizza as your one major meal of the day

[garbon]

OMG I'm fasting!

You are wasting away.

[mongers]

I think Garbon is on to an important point, you don't have to continually feed yourself to avoid feeling slightly hungry. It's a perfectly natural feeling that can be listened to or ignored if you wish.

If I stay up late, I habitually do to bed, stomach slightly growling, maybe feeling a bit hungry. But it doesn't kill me and the downsides to eating just before bed I don't like.

Net effect of not eating after 9/10 pm is I sometimes don't eat for a whole 10-12 hours, hasn't killed me and I think it helps promote a more sensible approach to weight/diet, both psychologically and physiologically. 

We should have a nutrient thread, with a side order of diet issues. In addition to diet in it's wider sense.

Your body is designed to fast periodically. There are tons of benefits to that.

I don't think it is good to intentionally fast. You body copes, but it copes by finding energy from sources like your muscles, and slowing your metabolism by doing things like making you lethargic to the point you don't want to exercise.

I think we might be at cross purposes, you, MBM and I. I'm thinking of upto about a 14-15 hour stretch in a day when you don't eat, don't think I would manage much more than that.

I figure there's enough glycogen in my liver and muscles to power me through a good part of the day/night without snacking.

[Ideologue]

For very short-term weight loss, I recommend climbing a mountain and not eating.  Very short-term.

I mean, I realize that the five pounds I've put back on owe more to the fact I've rehydrated than the 3000 pizza calories I ate Sunday, but it's still disheartening.

Let me guess:
Saturday: climb a mountain, no proper meals
Sunday: serious hunger sets in, so you scarf down a 3,000 calorie pizza as your one major meal of the day

I also ate most of a microwave burrito, but it didn't cook all the way through.

[Ideologue]

Anyway, I'm not the one who was all "IF I DON'T EAT THIS CHICKEN I'LL DIE."

[alfred russel]

For very short-term weight loss, I recommend climbing a mountain and not eating.  Very short-term.

I mean, I realize that the five pounds I've put back on owe more to the fact I've rehydrated than the 3000 pizza calories I ate Sunday, but it's still disheartening.

Let me guess:
Saturday: climb a mountain, no proper meals
Sunday: serious hunger sets in, so you scarf down a 3,000 calorie pizza as your one major meal of the day

I also ate most of a microwave burrito, but it didn't cook all the way through.

You would probably get better results by eating regular meals. I think the feast / famine route you are taking is going to get your body preparing for the famine by storing fat. You probably got around 4,000 calories the two days: why not eat 2,000 a day?

[Josquius]

For very short-term weight loss, I recommend climbing a mountain and not eating.  Very short-term.

I mean, I realize that the five pounds I've put back on owe more to the fact I've rehydrated than the 3000 pizza calories I ate Sunday, but it's still disheartening.

Let me guess:
Saturday: climb a mountain, no proper meals
Sunday: serious hunger sets in, so you scarf down a 3,000 calorie pizza as your one major meal of the day

[alfred russel]

Anyway, I'm not the one who was all "IF I DON'T EAT THIS CHICKEN I'LL DIE."

I was hungry. I'm not out to starve myself. 

[Ideologue]

For very short-term weight loss, I recommend climbing a mountain and not eating.  Very short-term.

I mean, I realize that the five pounds I've put back on owe more to the fact I've rehydrated than the 3000 pizza calories I ate Sunday, but it's still disheartening.

Let me guess:
Saturday: climb a mountain, no proper meals
Sunday: serious hunger sets in, so you scarf down a 3,000 calorie pizza as your one major meal of the day

I also ate most of a microwave burrito, but it didn't cook all the way through.

You would probably get better results by eating regular meals. I think the feast / famine route you are taking is going to get your body preparing for the famine by storing fat. You probably got around 4,000 calories the two days: why not eat 2,000 a day?

Well, all kidding aside, I wasn't hungry and pretty nauseous.

[alfred russel]

Well, all kidding aside, I wasn't hungry and pretty nauseous.

Even before getting in the car? Sorry. 

[Ideologue]

On Sat? Yeah, a little. I mean, I walked up a mountain.

Not why I got carsick, tho.

[Capetan Mihali]

How hard would it have been for the animators to draw some genitalia on Winnie?  That would've avoided that whole problem.

[Sheilbh]

Fuck this I'm joining the Communist Party.
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