[vericiab]

I don't tend to experience hunger and, as a result, interrupting my activities to eat multiple times per day can feel like a bit of an inconvenience. So I've frequently fasted daily since before "intermittent fasting" entered the common lexicon. It's not really intentional though, I will quite literally forget to eat or otherwise just don't make it a priority.

In my experience, I'm not sure it's quite the panacea it's sometimes made out to be. Perhaps there are psychological benefits to intentionally fasting that I'm missing out on. In any case, quite often when I'm wondering why I feel like shit I end up realizing something like I haven't eaten in 24 hours or in the last 48 hours I've eaten less than 1000 calories. Oops. I'm trying to be better about regularly eating 2 meals per day because I really do feel better if I've been eating consistently.

I'm not sure it's doing my blood pressure any favors either. Despite regular fasting and having a BMI of 18.1 (technically slightly underweight, as the lower bound of a "healthy" BMI is 18.5), my blood pressure is usually around 140/95. But who knows, maybe it would be higher without the fasting.

[dlp211]

Intermittent fasting is not the same thing as malnutrition or fasting in excess. Continually not eating for 24-48 hours and/or depriving yourself of necessary calories isn't good for anyone.