<story><title>A beginner&apos;s guide to intermittent fasting (2012)</title><url>https://jamesclear.com/the-beginners-guide-to-intermittent-fasting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>random_upvoter</author><text>For decades of my adult life I skipped breakfast, going against all conventional dietary wisdom. Having 3 meals a day just felt like turning my body into a conveyor belt that produces faeces. Now I feel kinda vindicated.&lt;p&gt;A few times I traveled with a friends who did the breakfast - lunch - dinner thing and after two or three days I had to opt out of either breakfast or dinner. I remember asking &amp;quot;how do you even manage to process that much?&amp;quot; and I just got blank stares.&lt;p&gt;For what it&amp;#x27;s worth, I&amp;#x27;m 51 now and my body weight is the same as when I was 20. It just doesn&amp;#x27;t LOOK quite the same anymore ;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JKCalhoun</author><text>My sense is that &lt;i&gt;conventional dietary wisdom&lt;/i&gt; comes from an agricultural heritage — where we spent all damn day working the fields. Without that intensive labor, three meals seems to make less sense.</text></comment>
<story><title>A beginner&apos;s guide to intermittent fasting (2012)</title><url>https://jamesclear.com/the-beginners-guide-to-intermittent-fasting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>random_upvoter</author><text>For decades of my adult life I skipped breakfast, going against all conventional dietary wisdom. Having 3 meals a day just felt like turning my body into a conveyor belt that produces faeces. Now I feel kinda vindicated.&lt;p&gt;A few times I traveled with a friends who did the breakfast - lunch - dinner thing and after two or three days I had to opt out of either breakfast or dinner. I remember asking &amp;quot;how do you even manage to process that much?&amp;quot; and I just got blank stares.&lt;p&gt;For what it&amp;#x27;s worth, I&amp;#x27;m 51 now and my body weight is the same as when I was 20. It just doesn&amp;#x27;t LOOK quite the same anymore ;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seer</author><text>The work from Dr. Sinclair, and various other scientist seems to agree that its not just weight and body shape, you actually live longer and have less illnesses throughout your life.&lt;p&gt;Really fascinating stuff - the Lifespan podcast really changed how I think about all of this. I&amp;#x27;m like you and haven&amp;#x27;t had breakfast in quite a while, but recently started skipping launch as well. A lot harder, but supposedly will feel about the same when my body adjusts.</text></comment>