Episode 127: Intermittent Fasting is Back (reacting to IF comments)
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In this episode of The Up-Beet Dietitians podcast, Emily and Hannah start off season 8 with intermittent fasting because apparently it’s making a comeback tour! The girls bring back The Up-Beet Dietitians vibes by reacting to comments they’ve received on social media about IF. From therapists recommending diets to using “food dependent” as an insult, these comments did not disappoint. Happy season premiere!
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hello everybody Welcome to season eight of the upbeat dieticians
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podcast hello everyone we are starting off strong and we are not messing around
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in season 8 we're bringing back the all to popular and favorite diet reviews so
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so you probably saw the title we're going to talk about intermittent fasting today it's been a hot minute I don't
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think we've talked about intermittent fasting since season 1 and it's been a long time A lot has changed in the
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world since then so it's going to be also more of a not so upy dietician
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style episode because we'll be talking about comments because from like a interent fasting
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standpoint not really a lot has changed there is new research but the
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overarching our opinion of it hasn't really changed but there we got a lot of
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really great comments to talk about today and it's always good to viw and refresh on this because apparently the
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world wants to bring it up again and it's having another Splurge in popularity so yeah if if you're new
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around here and you haven't heard one of our not so upbeat dietition episodes um
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we've did those a couple Seasons back I don't think we did any at all last season or the one before that maybe even but like Emily said it's where we look
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at comments that we get usually regarding a certain topic we did one about the keto diet because of course
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we've gotten a bajillion keto diet comments so today we are sifting through
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my comment sections because I have gotten I mean we can't go through them all I've gotten probably hundreds not
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exaggerating maybe even thousands of in minute fasting comments I've had a couple videos go viral about inter
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minute fasting so we've got quite a few good ones we're going to talk about some good some bad all just kind of paint the
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picture of our our thoughts of this diet yeah when I was looking I had literally
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zero comments about this but I think it's because I'm just so fixated on keto
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yeah that that's where all my hate comes from and just generally eating which
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people hate when people tell when you tell them it's okay to eat but the gist
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of this like we're just saying it's okay to eat meals and snacks throughout the day and people get pissed yeah let's get
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into it because I already know you have maybe eight four five six seven eight
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nine I think I'm coming quickly enough yeah but I already know we're gonna get deterred by by these so let's just jump
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into it our first one is quote and these are direct quotes
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these are not things we are paraphrasing right now this is what the people are
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saying online this P first person said intermittent fasting works if you make
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it work don't binge during your window and eat reasonably healthy I made a Tik Tok response to
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this one recently pretty recently um by the way too I'll put the captions or the
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um the comments on the screen so if you're watching on YouTube you able be able to kind of see and follow along but
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basically Ally the gist of what I said in my Tik Tok about this was like if it was that easy to like oh I'm just not
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going to binge GNA eat healthy wouldn't like everyone be doing that yes yeah and
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it'd be working right I like the like works if you make it
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work like they're not trying to make it work they actually are intending for their pursuit of thinness to fail yeah
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except for this guy this guy's got it down right they are making it work
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it's it's giving healthism it's giving elitism in the
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wellness area space yeah I think that's the main gist
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of what I said in my response video was like if it was that simple everyone would be doing it I saw a video today
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actually on I think Instagram and I think it was a dietitian where she was saying if it was as easy as like
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calories in calories out then everyone would like weigh exactly what they wanted to weigh no one would ever have like these crazy
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like unexpected weight changes we could just control it and do what we needed to
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do to weigh exactly what we wanted to but even though you know the big
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overarching idea is that yes calories and calories out we all know it's h works there's so much on both sides of
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those equations that we don't have total control over it and the same thing goes for this
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like you don't have total control on if you're going to binge during your window or not if you've been restricting which
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is what in a minute fasting is pretty big chance of binging even if you don't actually want to be doing
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that yeah yeah I don't I don't have anything to
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add this is just like the gist of all the fat diets you do where it's just
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like just do it just make just do it or it's kind of like if someone has an Ed
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and they're like well why don't you just eat more yeah just eat a
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burger okay yeah that's how that's how it works okay let's go on to the next one
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this one is like Emily said a very I think a good entry way because it kind of it's similar to all the diets ever
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but next one I think is more in a minute fasting and I feel this this has been an
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argument I've been getting a lot lately and this is there are lots of oh quote
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there are lots of studies supportting ing intermittent fasting and literal human
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history so their claim is that because people have been fasting for a long time
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it's got to be good for us right yeah I can't bring up lots of things in
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history that we should not be doing my first right first my first
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thought when I saw this was remember when we used to bleed people out to get
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her their sickness that's in human history right I put on
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the list they used to put cocaine and Coca-Cola obviously we don't do that
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anymore for good reason yeah also the first part of this I wanted to bring up
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is like site your sources I know it's a comment but I I want to hear what studies you're referring to we can look
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at the sample sizes the sample groups like what did the group even like make
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up was it like men and women was it like one or the other what were the age groups like how
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long was it done for it's typically not done for long on humans or was it done on rats yeah is it
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is it animal studies or humans um was it even like was it
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observational was it self-reported there's a lot of things
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that needs to be taken into account when we're talking about studies and just saying lots of studies supporting it
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doesn't mean really anything right because I'm sure there are lots of studies on it but you can purposely
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miscon through the conclusion to push a narrative
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which happens all the time in studies to support like everything in like the diet
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culture boms culture world like there's diets that support keto diets that support oh I don't even know what's out
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there these days I'm too tired support not drinking diet soda ones that do
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support drinking diet soda like yeah that's why all just so
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individualized yeah and just because there are studies we also have to look at like even if the results were
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significant like they can say intermittent fasting improved metabolism and
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decreased body weight but then if you look at like the conclusion the actual
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data did this actually make a difference or is that just the title of the article and that's all you're reading most case
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scenarios people are just leaving reading the ttle turtle title or the intro and then
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that's it yeah exactly
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and I guess we should point out too that if you fast for religious purposes like
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that's a different thing I think we have one of these comments coming down where they talk about I don't know something else we'll
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get to it um but it's not like not all fasting is the diet of intermittent
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fasting and I think a point I wanted to make too I guess I'll do it now is like it's not like if you like for us we're
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against generally intermittent fasting that is not mean that we are for eating
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247 like it's not polarizing side or the other there is a
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way to find a middle ground exactly so like fasting in general like is not
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inherently a terrible thing we would not feel good if we were eating constantly obviously we all fast every night while
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we're asleep and that's why it's so important to get good sleep so your body can do all those things that they're
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claiming that imminent fasting is so good for but the beauty of sleeping and
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our body doing those things naturally is it's not an intentional restriction where we have an increased likelihood of
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binging developing an eating disorder all those different things so it's not that like the the practice of fasting is
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inherently bad it's just how we're going about it and how intermittent fasting has become just another diet just like
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every other one where it's just again so restrictive and people make it seem like
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if you're not doing that then there's no way you can be pursuing
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Health yeah it's not black and white feel like a
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dead horse beat a dead record like a broken
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record um yeah it's not one or the other it doesn't it doesn't have to be
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and it's luckily it's not well you always joke Emily that you sometimes accidentally like intermittent
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fast when you just sleep in a little bit yeah exactly yeah or when I eat my
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dinner at 4 p.m. which I can no longer do now because I work through that time or I'm driving so
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sad but yeah accidental faster which actually Tes into the next
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one let's get to that one this one I think is kind of like a a maybe like a self-deprecating joke kind of thing it's
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not something very serious but they said quote they in it fast to lose weight I
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intermittent fast because I'm neurod Divergent so same thing here it's all about Our intention someone who has like
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say ADHD they often struggle with like skipping meals because they just get so
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focused on whatever task they're doing eating regular meals is a pretty common struggle for someone who has ADHD
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that does not mean that they are doing an imminent fasting diet I think there's still benefit to them figuring out a
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routine eating schedule and if I have a a patient that has ADHD that's usually a goal of ours is figuring out how to get
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routine nutrition in but I know this person was just kidding but it's not the
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same thing and that's what I was getting to at the last point where like if you are sleeping and not
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eating and you know in Emily's old case if she's eating dinner at 4 P p.m. and not again till the next morning and it's been 16 hours she's not doing the
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intermittent fasting diet she's just going that long without eating a meal yeah the intention plays a very big
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part and that's a very good point to make yeah yeah so again with this one if you do have ADHD you are skipping meals
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or any other type of condition that leads to skipping meals and forgetting to eat
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whatever I do still suggest trying to find a way to increase regular meals and
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snacks throughout the day whether you're intentionally doing this or not it's going to feel better most likely to get
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regular meals in yeah our next one is very
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interesting it is or the person said quote my doctor and therapists both
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recommended intermittent fasting for for weight loss would be hard to not eat anything for 800 p.m. would be hard to
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not eat anything from 8:00 p.m. until noon the next day so we all know how we
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feel about doctors giving nutrition advice slash pushing
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bad diets then also a therapist and I'm
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like what is what type of therapist is recommending this like it's one thing like therapist
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for weight loss right right there I feel like that's
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like an oxymoron I I kind of get like doctors recommending these things
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and not quite understanding the risks of it in terms of disordered eating and eating disorders but I would think a
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therapist would have a much better understanding of disordered eating and eating disorders and know the risks of recommending something like this yeah it
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makes me very nervous because from like a mental health standpoint
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they are the expert and the relationship
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between fad diet extreme dieting and intentional weight
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loss can be very harmful on someone's relationship with food and their body
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everyone gives out nutrition advice that's what we've literally dentists
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people with literally no education anywhere related to health y you're right like literally anybody people who
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goes to the gym people who is literally I want to say I'm
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surprised this one did strike me by surprise a little bit this one kind of was a
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curveball but yeah we've only been in the field for how long and we're already
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like oh we're very jaded incredibly jaded
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um we skipped the one before this but it's very similar oh sorry I got so
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fixed ated no this is a good one I'm glad we talked about this because the therapist thing just like is insane yeah
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you know I'm still not over it now that I'm saying it again yeah like the doctor were
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recommending in I'm like okay whatever Another Day In The Life yeah who doesn't what doctor doesn't do that obviously
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there are doctors who don't I know a lot of really great doctors that do not do that and refer to dietitians but hearing that is like okay
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what ever but a therapist I'm feeling recomending not so
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upbeat right now I'm feeling feeling very downbeat
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downbeat like I can't imagine if I was seeing a therapist and they're like yeah you should definitely do intermate fasting yeah your body is incorrect I
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think you would look better if you lost weight and you should do that by fasting that will be $300
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please wow okay now yeah yeah if yeah I would not be okay if my therapist show
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me that right okay next next one next one is
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quote vent fasting is incredible for your health many doctors give good info online the problem is that people misuse
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it we talked about this a little bit in our episode where we watched one of our
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very first episodes talking about how we need to stop blaming the Dieter and blame diet culture this is exactly that
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like we're blaming people for not knowing how to use all of the insane
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contradicting information out there for nutrition not the fact that there is all the information out there that is so
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contradicting which that's the problem we should be blaming yeah exactly it's Shifting the
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blame which is something that like in our early days we were guilty of this where we were blaming the people yeah
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for like being victims of diet culture but it's diet culture and the people that are pushing it are the problems
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we'll link the episode in the show notes if you want to listen to that a little us reflect a little bit more on how our
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mindset changed around that but yeah it's but also let's talk about the
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doctors give good info online right we kind of skimmed over that part because I think we all we know our thoughts on
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that but let's let's rehash um there are quite a few doctors to name
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a few carnivore MD who's a psychiatrist yeah
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who purposely push their own
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agendas and are incredibly damaging to people's relationships with Foods
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conception of nutrition and I know this is one person this is a a poor sample
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size to bring up and I'm sure there are good doctors who do get
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good who do give good information
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online but it brings up the scope of
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practice issued to me there's so many dietitians online
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and I know a lot of it is like a respect thing is people just respect doctors
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more than dietitians like it's a fact it's obviously anytime you
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even bring it up to like I know like I talk to like family or friends about and they mentioned like a doctor said something they're like well they know
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how to do their research and I'm like how many nutrition classes did they have
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probably zero also we took research classes we spent most of our time at
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Purdue reading research yeah dieticians know what they're doing crazy
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crazy enough right and there's so many of them that if you don't like the ones you find online I'm sure there's another
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one you'll like there's thousands of them online and there's so they all vary
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what they specialize how they preach whatever they talk about the resources
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are out there not to say like you IGN noral the doctors what they're saying it's just more the nutrition stuff I
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tend to get a bit skeptical yeah yeah exactly it's not
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like do first of all they're not being malicious usually sometimes they are not
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always I don't even remember what I was going to say what's happening to us my
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brain is not doing well I know neither is mine if you think of it just I feel
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like said what we need to say for this one let's let's move on let's talk about the restrict binge
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cycle yes yes so our next one is quote I
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like intermittent fasting because it's easier to know say I assume the say mive say to
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say no to everything than to say one cookie will be okay because it's never just one cookie so let's talk about the
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All or Nothing mindset let's talk about binge and
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restricting so if you're new here something we like to talk about a
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lot is the All or Nothing mindset it's either one or the other it's all like in name it's all they're all having all the
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cookies or none of the cookies at all it's easier to set those black and white rules and guidelines for yourself but
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what tends to happen is if you restrict yourself physically but also mentally that plays a
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huge mental toll on you like you're gonna you're G to keep thinking about the cookie if you're like no cookies
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guess what you're gonna think about Day cookies and then once you or maybe in an environment or you're like oh my gosh
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just this one time then you're going to overly consume it and it's and then you'll get upset with yourself and mad
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at yourself because you weren't disciplined enough and gave in and then
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be like tomorrow I'll be better and then we're back on that track it's a very vicious cycle that's very common in
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dieting but especially intermittent fasting because it is legitimately do not eat
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anything it's not like it's like specific Woods it's like don't eat and then during this time you can eat
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so and that's thing with anate fasting it gives you the time period you can eat and that's when the binges tend to
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happen because you're going 16 18 hours without eating depending on how long your fast is and then you open up the
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floodgates exactly exactly like your body is so smart and it knows if you are
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intentionally avoiding eating things and it's not sure why it just knows that It
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Wants What It Wants and it's going to be so much easier to eat eat amount of cookies that feels good for you if you
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just say oh yeah I'll eat the cookie and there's of course so much more to that you know can we add stuff to it so it's
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more satisfying well have we had that day are we emotional eating there's so much more than us just saying eat the
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cookie and move on there's lots to unpack there but for the purpose of this podcast yeah just eat the cookie and
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move on like it's going to help mentally so much more than restricting it
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and it I can't talk today I'm tired okay
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yeah I don't know I feel like I'm a broken record we we always are a broken record if you're new here I guess we're
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not a broken record but if you've been around a while You' heard this a million times just eat the cookie and if there's a reason why you
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feel like you can't eat just one it's not a you problem there's a reason why you feel that way and it
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likely Mo very highly likely is related to either mental or physical
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restriction okay the next one's hilarious I'm so excited for this one I cannot wait to hear your
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thoughts okay this one this one's so funny I feel like we've got a very similar one with the keto diet too where
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they talk about like a normal bodily function being harmful to your body yeah
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to clue you in the quote is quote digestion is incredibly taxing on the
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body that is why imminent fasting works well digestion is like such a basic
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responsibility of your body it's like saying important one it's like saying that breathing is incredibly taxing on
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the body yeah obviously can be and digestion can be too if you have something going wrong and if that's the
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case don't do intermittent fasting go see a doctor yeah please seek
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help like if it's not going well there's probably something else
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going on that not eating is not not going to help this one made me giggle
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this one's crazy it's like saying like urinating is taxing on the body breathing is taxing on the body stop
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drinking right stop breathing yeah that's just so silly like go get a
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colonoscopy you feel like your digestion is taxing your body yeah it's absolutely
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insane and like em said like fasting and like not eating is not going to be the solution especially if it's a struggle
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of like constipation of course you're constipated if you're not
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eating like your body has no food to push through yeah or amount you're
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making is not enough that's like holding on and it's like when am I going to eat get food again right it's like we really
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want to poop but we just can't because you're giving us no help in that
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area go to a doctor if you're having indigestion or feel like digestion is
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really hard on your body please go to a doctor yeah and hopefully they'll refer you to
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a dietician if need be fingers crossed oh this next
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one gives me Throwbacks to someone we knew in college our next
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quote is quote big changes happen when you do 36 and 72 hour
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fast so this is day and a half to 3day fast if we
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want to convert that to days so please go one and a half to three days without
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eating big changes will happen I'd like to know which changes they're thinking about because the ones I think of are
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brain fog possible dehydration because we get water and electrolytes from food hypotension
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fainting blacking out those are the the changes that I expect to happen when you don't eat for three
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days yeah like asking me to live my normal life and go to work and not eat for one and a
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half to three days I would probably lose my job because I would become an evil
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demon well then you would just like pass out at work and be literally useless yeah proba to get hospitalized from
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dehydration yeah the whole like multiple day fast
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thing really I feel like there was
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um know where I saw it I feel like I mentioned this before on here but it's been so many episodes I don't remember
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when First World countries and people in First World countries create issues
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around food solely because they're bored and and they don't understand how
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much of a necess a necessity it is and I know there are people in First World countries that also can't afford food so
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I'm not including these people obviously like people in third world countries they aren't making up bad
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diets because they're just trying to eat and they will most they might a lot of
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them have digesting issues because their body isn't used to eating regularly I saw someone mention this
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before and I'm like yep that's it it's literally like people are so bored they create issues out of nowhere
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like the dieet culture space well it's not bored it's also a money making thing
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that's the main thing it's not boredom it's money but it's just so I'm like where did this
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come from what in our ancestral lines makes you think you don't have to eat for
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three days and you'll do better I was like Googling I was
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Googling like 72 hour fasts thinking I would see a lot of stuff saying like
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don't do this there were so many articles I'm like how to do it tips to not feel hungry like so many just like blogs and
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stuff teaching you how to do these types of fasts like it's just so normalized yep so yeah this one sucks don't fast
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for three days yeah please eat if you're able to and you have access to food please eat
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like why would you not such a privilege like huge privilege take
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advantage we be thankful like if you don't have an issue with food accessibility your insecurity you should be thankful you have access to food and
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can eat regularly you're so right it's like a money making thing and it's
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also a healthism thing and a pursuit of as thin thin as possible
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thing we will find any way any variation to
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like get others to be thin so we can make money off of
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them pursuing being thin
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what a world what a world we're just here to talk about it yeah I guess we're
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profiting off of it that's true sadly not very happily I'd much rather
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talk about other things oh me too let's move on to our last one this one's pretty funny it's someone who who gets
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it I like this person they said quote I have a cousin who called me food
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dependent when I got hungry on a hike he only eats one keto meal per day shake
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my head I'll stay dependent and alive LOL like yeah pre I like this I like
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this comment a lot oh like we're all food dependent yeah it keeps you
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functioning and alive and like why would you brag about it's being food dependent it's
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literally romanticized starvation that's that's all it is
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you're not I can bet they don't have good relationship with food or their
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body I guess it com to the point too of like what do whatever you want if you
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want to eat one keto meal a day I don't care but like don't make fun of others for being food
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dependent that's crazy that's crazy what I would have pushed that cousin off the
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cliff not would not have done that that was very any you to say it yes oh my but
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like I would be stunned if someone have be like duh how do you even like say to
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someone like I think you're being food dependent right now that's
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crazy that's CRA like I can kind of see where the
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whole like food addiction sugar addiction argument comes in like it makes sense you would feel that way like you're addicted to food but to like
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straight up say you're dependent on food like yeah that's why we can't be
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addicted to food because we need it to survive and you can't be addicted to things that you need to survive so like
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this person clearly it's like right over their head yeah I don't know what's going
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on in that brain but well at least the commenter gets
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it I told myself I was going to be nicer this year but then I just thought of something and I'm going to say it
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so no thoughts going on in that head probably because you're eating a keto meal you're not giving your brain
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glucose that's its preferred source of energy okay I'm done I'm done that wasn't that mean we've said
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worse yes you're right you're right that was fine I'll give you a pass you can still
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you can still pursue niceness this year that was I guess that wasn't me ruining my resolution yeah you're
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good I like this commenter I'm glad we end on a good note that's a fun way to
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end let's talk about the
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Future Let's where where are they now fasting because we haven't talked
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about this since probably 2021 and now it's been three years [Music]
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so there is research coming out luckily
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and some things to take note as the re research comes out as people interpret
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this hopefully they're interpreting it correctly that's a big ask we have to think about kind of like
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how will implementing intermittent fasting affect our relationship with food telling yourself to
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eat and telling yourself when not to eat how will that affect our hunger and
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fullness cues that or nothing mindset the good versus bad mentality
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stuff like that you to take sorry I have something to add to this there's like
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all these claims about imminent fasting helping with like cell health and like it your cell when they don't have to be
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constantly working to digest they can work on like repurposing themselves
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basically but like even if that's like that's true and this like really is so Health benefiting inter minute fast like
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you just said if it's ruining our relationship with food like it's not actually Health
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promoting so like even if this research is proving that like it's so good for us to fast over like let's say a 16 hour
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period a time but like that means that we're binging when we do go to eat
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and we have this like we feel guilty whenever we eat something that's not on the plan like that's that's not healthy if
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we're feeling stressed about food as a result of doing this mental health is also Health people
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exactly yeah okay that's all we can go on to the next one which is very similar how sustainable is this like again even
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if interent fasting is like the healthiest diet in the world everyone who does it lives to be
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150 if you can't maintain it over a long period of your life then it's also not
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going to be helpful for you like doing 30 days of intermittent fasting which will likely lead to you binging once
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you're off of it it's just not what was the point yeah it's not going to reset your
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body or anything it's just GNA stress it out a lot more exactly and then kind of
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going back to like how there is research coming out it's important to note that the
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research cannot always just be like individual wi to every single person
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like they're using it's dependent on all those different factors we've mentioned but also work with a trained health
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professional work with a dietitian on your nutrition who will be able to find
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the best approach that works for you like just
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because your cousin who eats keto once a day it works well for them and maybe
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they found a research article that shows how it could be beneficial doesn't mean
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that should be then distributed to the entire general public exactly I also want to bring up
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to that like once again if the research is just the most magnificent groundbreaking research ever it's okay
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if you don't take part in it like you don't always need to be pursuing Health thinness wellness it's
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okay to just not doesn't make you a bad person if you're not doing this even if everyone says it's the best thing for
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you yeah you gotta do what's best for you and
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sometimes that's not doing much of anything and that's okay yeah sometimes it's just surviving and trying to get
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through the day yeah and we mentioned a million times before emotional eating
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like sometimes that can make you feel better and that likely is not going to be a part of your 16 and eight fasting
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plan like oh you can only emotionally eat during your feeding window from 5 to
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6 that's when I plan to emotionally eat oh so like if again you're in a a
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self-care era or your entire life this could be an era of
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decades it could be your entire life you don't have to be doing these things even if they are quote unquote healthy for
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you I feel like whenever we say something like that we get so much backlash of like oh you want everyone to
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die and be unhealthy we're not wishing malicious
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things some people we want them to take care of themselves but that goes beyond just like nutrition yeah sometimes it's
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being gentle and nice to yourself if I'm can work on being nice
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to others you can work on being nice to yourself and like that access to yeah
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exactly same struggle see where you might be not nice to yourself I struggle
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to not be nice to others so it took me a minute to like hear what you said and like conceptualize it that was funny um
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but like also too like health is a privilege also unfortunately it shouldn't be but it is and so not
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everyone gets to focus on a minute fasting because they're trying to just like stay alive and feed their family yeah living like paycheck to
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paycheck where what they're eating might not be the biggest priority to them
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eating might just be PRI like getting food yeah exactly
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and so if us as dietitians are working with them and we say that's literally
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okay like fed is best just get some food in it's not because we don't want them to be healthy it's because for them in
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this time right now just eating whatever they can is what's healthy for them yeah and the last one we already brought up
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but we've said that you know even if we are generally against the concept of this diet of intuitive intuitive fasting
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oh my God intermittent fasting bth has gotten into my
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brain even if we are against this General concept it does not mean that we're saying that you should be eating
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247 and never have periods of not eating that's not that's not what we're saying
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at all no it's not doesn't have to be as dramatic as
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we're making it out to be everyone chill out like we're just saying this specific
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method might not be the best it's the same thing with keto when we say we don't recommend keto we're not saying to
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eat a thousand grams of carbs per meal that'd be crazy that'd be crazy
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that's like some Michael phelp [ __ ] yeah
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yeah that's that that's that like the bottom line if it could sum up in like a
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few words like you just said I think actually just chill out like it's not that complicated or Ser chill out we
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have so much going on in the world like your eating window doesn't matter
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I'm gonna just say it and like like like Anna said do whatever you
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want like your body is your body you are entitled to do whatever you want with it
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but leave other people alone that's Point don't don't be a bully in 2024 we're all
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gonna not be bullies we're all gonna follow Emily's footsteps and be so nice to each other nice to each other nice to
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ourselves I think just be better overall yeah just don't it's like the
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projecting let's not do that I think and a lot of people listening typically
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aren't I feel like we don't tend to attract the people that projected
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they tend to come after us so like why would they want to listen to this but if you find yourself doing that hey we're
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reflecting now it's this is a safe space it's okay be like I think it is more so like if our listeners say our listeners
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are people who aren't doing that most likely I think it's more so our advice for them could be if you receive that
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you've got a diet Pusher in your life just tell them to chill out or
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ignore them don't worry about it yeah you're probably not a diet Pusher
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yourself which is a great a great lifestyle Choice yeah but if you have one in your
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life push it makes me think of um in Mean Girls when Paddy said that Tina
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fe's character and the teacher was a drug Pusher she's a drug Pusher she pushes
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drugs but they're are diet pushers I love a good Mingo reference
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there's probably one for every episode we've done we should start trying to
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that'd be too much work I think but trying to include a Mean Girls quote wherever we can yeah if it that's my
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2024 resolution great great well it'll be
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good for both of us and the world will be a better place because of it all right guys well that was another
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