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During the hundreds of thousands of years we were nomadic persistence hunters, do you think we ate daily? Three square meals?

A rough rule of thumb is humans can go 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food and 3 minutes without oxygen.

Humans have literally evolved to fast for long periods and then have a huge feast once the prey is caught.

So no, he's not "starving" himself by avoiding stuffing his face for a few days.

I did try to spoiler this to not spoil the other comment, but I couldn't get it to work. Can you spoiler images?

The "do whatever you want one day a week" implies that you do the 20/4 six days a week?

For water only and 3 days in a row yes, but fasting once a week is harmless and has benefits

A non-underweight and otherwise healthy adult can forego food for a week without issue, it's not that big a deal. We would never have survived evolution if we couldn't do that.

I do intermittent fasting (apparently, wasn't aware of the concept until a friend of mine was describing it as there new diet plan and I was like "Damn, I've been doing that for years") and usually feel like shit after I eat. Not sure they're related though it might be that I just have a shitty digestive system.

I think it's called heroin.

That would be about the point where your body runs out of natural electrolyte stores. Eating is more than calories, we constantly consume small amounts of electrolytes, vitamins, minerals, etc, all calorie-neutral things that are exceptionally vital to your body functioning right. Once those levels get wack, weird shit starts to happen.

It's why dieting is less about "stop eating" and more about "eat less but choose small amounts of very nutrient dense (NOT calorie dense) foods".

You've tried fasting, yes, but have you tried slowing?

Yoyo is more of a consistency issue imo. Calories in calories out is all of it. If you are yo yoing weight you are changing something at each end. I have always had that issue on diets until IF because life happens and you lose routine. With if I just dont eat unless I know its time, and my stomach is small so I fill up quicker. I bounced 230-270 for a decade. Now maintaining 190-200 and thats mostly water weight bouncing.

Ramadan is fucked.

At first I was like idgf what people do. But then my mate told me every Ramadan doctors and nurses collapse while on the job due to Ramadan.

Just imagine telling some kid "sorry your mum died, but the nurse fucked up the medicine because she was incredibly dehydrated because some guy that lived in a tent 2000 years ago commanded it".

They should have to use their holiday days. Or just do their fucking job.

In boarding school one of my best friends was from Turkey, and I joined him for Ramadan. I actually had a lot of fun, we’d hoard food from the cafeteria throughout the day in his room, then hang out all night.

I’d never do it on my own, especially because I have no connection to the religion, but I’m still glad I participated.

Only drinking water and not eating.

Probably just only drinking water. AKA a normal fast.

Though to be fair most fasts still allow for other zero calorie drinks, like tea or coffee.

Stupid fad where people cycle consuming nothing but water for three days. Intermittent fasting (eg 14hr/day) is a far better approach

Sounds like a good way to lose money if you're in the UK