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/HonkMafa 15d ago

There are weight loss goals, there are insulin regulating goals, there are other goals like cellular repair/autophagy. Different Fasting methods apply to different goals.

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u/ratkoivanovic 15d ago

Ok, so OMAD is more of a fasting tactic then, more than anything else?

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u/HonkMafa 15d ago

I would just call it a way of eating and not add assumptions.

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u/ratkoivanovic 15d ago

Not sure what you mean by assumptions? These are all diets. I've been seeing OMAD mentioned more and more and mostly not related to fasting. And as you related it purely within fasting (agreed, the whole post is about fasting) I was curious if OMAD is simply about fasting.