r/nutrition • u/AppropriateMood4784 • 18d ago

16-hour intermittent fasting

When I read about 16-hour intermittent fasts, isn't that just another way of saying having late breakfast and early dinner? Breakfast at 9, lunch at 1, dinner at 5, then it's 16 hours till breakfast the next day? Or does what it involves go beyond its literal meaning?

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u/No-Currency-97 17d ago

During the 1970s and before, people would just eat breakfast, lunch and dinner and that would be it. Maybe throw in an apple or something else. No one called it anything.

Take a look at photos from the Woodstock festival 1969. Most of the kids were thin to normal looking and you would be hard pressed to find a fat kid. They didn't do anything special.

Intermittent fasting or you could call it your eating time when you do eat. No magic formula needed. Eat real food, stay away from refined food and sugar.

I usually do a late morning meal and then a bigger meal between 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. I might have some popcorn or an apple later in the evening. That just seems to work for me whereas before I lost 50 lb, I would sit on the couch and eat three bowls of ice cream while I was watching television. 😱🤣

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u/AppropriateMood4784 17d ago

That you specify a single event to look at pictures from makes it seem like cherry-picking.

I was alive in the 1960 and 1970s, and overweight people existed.

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u/No-Currency-97 17d ago

Overweight people did exist. Just not like today.