Apytele@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
there’s really no “right” way to eat other than daily / weekly balances of carbs / fat / protein / vitamins / minerals / water.
3 square meals is more like a pre-osha workplace safety thing for people doing manual labor since the calorie requirements are so extreme but that need to be packed into a neat little meal break so they can get back to work. if you’re not building a railroad or stonework or carrying a roof up a ladder then grazing or intermittent fasting are fine.
nerv@fedinsfw.app 5 days ago
Intermittent fasting? Grazing?
Please elaborate.
otter@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Grazing is like snacking throughout the day or many smaller meals
Intermittent fasting is better explained here, but it comes down to “fasting for part(s)” of the day
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermittent_fasting
nerv@fedinsfw.app 5 days ago
Grazing sounds like a sure way to gain weight and fast. By not putting in on one sitting a full meal, capable of sustaining for a given amount of time, we’ll constantly adding to our mouth this and that. It makes harder to tally how much is eaten in one day.
And not eating between meals can not be considered intermitent fasting? We have a meal and abstain from eating until the next. It is quite intuitive, as far as I understand the notion.
Leviathan@fedinsfw.app 5 days ago
I fast for 20 hours and eat in a 4 hour window every day. It looks and feels nothing like not eating between multiple meals per day.
Also, people who graze, in my anecdotal observations, are always the absolute thinnest, healthiest bastards I know. A nut here, a grape there, abs visible in their thirties? Motherfuckers. If I did that if be a thousand pounds in no time. But as the person you replied to said, we all respond differently to different strategies and stick to what works for us.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 days ago
You should read up on diabetes.
Big meals are probably the worst way to eat - the body stores although extra calories as fat.
Quite the opposite of your supposition.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Honestly it’s probably way closer to the true neolithic diet that humans evolved to eat than scheduled meals are. And you’re even describing the right things to eat that way, nuts, berries, a lil jerky. There’s a lot of cultural variance too but honestly what our comes down to is that humanity’s biggest strength that has allowed us to become as powerful as we are is our fundamental versatility. Even just in terms of food: koalas can’t even recognize the leaves of the one plant they eat their entire lives if they’re not on a tree but humans can walk to the other side of the planet and look at a plant or animal and be like “wonder how I’m gonna cook that.” That is AMAZING and you’re saying you think that’s bound by a schedule? You think humans spent time on the migration path going “nah I’m gonna skip that berry cuz it’s not lunch yet!”