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I've been doing IF for a week or so now. I noticed that at first 20 hours was hard, but now my body can easily blow out over 30 hours without a problem. However, outside of the fact you look really weird to others, when does fasting become an eating disorder? At what point does it go from fasting to full blown anorexia? I've had issues in the past with being anorexic, however I feel like im just giving my body to simply not eat anymore and brushing it under the dieting carpet

I've been doing IF for a week or so now. I noticed that at first 20 hours was hard, but now my body can easily blow out over 30 hours without a problem. However, outside of the fact you look really weird to others, when does fasting become an eating disorder? At what point does it go from fasting to full blown anorexia? I've had issues in the past with being anorexic, however I feel like im just giving my body to simply not eat anymore and brushing it under the dieting carpet

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You can fast all you want as long as you get your daily calories. The point of intermediate fasting is to not eat 12-20 hours, then have a 12-4 hour eating window.

If you're fasting for 30 hours, you skipped a day of calories and that is no longer intermediate fasting, that is normal fasting.

Healthy schedules:

  • Eat normally 6 days a week and pick 1 to fast on.
  • Intermediate fast normally daily and make sure you have an eating window. You should still be having around your 2,000 calories a day.
  • Intermediate fast a few days a week and have normal days the other days of the week. I liked to do fasting on days I didn't workout, then I'd eat normally on days I did my workouts.

Your ideal body is going to take nourishment AND working out. So don't neglect that. Put a little more effort into working out and a little less effort into fasting.