That’s actually really interesting. When I was an undergrad, I “accidentally” used intermittent fasting as well. I was about 20 lbs overweight when I started school one year, I managed to lose 25 lbs on accident, in spite of the fact that I regularly binged after 24 hours of being to busy to eat.
My (limited) understanding implies this kind of thing is unhealthy and leads to suboptimal mental functioning.
My (limited) understanding implies this kind of thing is unhealthy and leads to suboptimal mental functioning.
If there’s any unhealthiness to it, I didn’t notice. It seemed to work out fine with my fencing & Taekwondo.
But mental functioning I really don’t know. I ate pretty healthily even in the binging phase, but I know from my N-backing and polyphasic sleep experiments that one can be utterly unaware of even large deficits (or surpluses), and I was using no mental benchmark or task back then, so I would have remained unaware.
That’s actually really interesting. When I was an undergrad, I “accidentally” used intermittent fasting as well. I was about 20 lbs overweight when I started school one year, I managed to lose 25 lbs on accident, in spite of the fact that I regularly binged after 24 hours of being to busy to eat.
My (limited) understanding implies this kind of thing is unhealthy and leads to suboptimal mental functioning.
If there’s any unhealthiness to it, I didn’t notice. It seemed to work out fine with my fencing & Taekwondo.
But mental functioning I really don’t know. I ate pretty healthily even in the binging phase, but I know from my N-backing and polyphasic sleep experiments that one can be utterly unaware of even large deficits (or surpluses), and I was using no mental benchmark or task back then, so I would have remained unaware.