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Binge(over) eating during the eating window ㅡ is it still intermittent fasting

2024.08.16 09:34
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Intermittent fasting happens when eating occurs during a particular time window only. It's with the intention of curbing  overeating & calorie intake.

But a question arose in my mind: does it still count as intermittent fasting if one not only concentrates all the daily calories intake in the limited time window but actually overeats by intaking more than necessary calories?

By doing so it could also count as binge eating since the eating in this case happens only during certain hours.

By limiting the eating time it may meet the definition of intermittent fasting; however, in whole picture the person is eating more, which could counteract the impacts of fasting.

Intermittent fasting is with the goal of getting healthier but if overeating happens during that, it'd undermine the goal

 

Does anyone have experiences or opnions to give?

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    Asifa farzana
    #12 : If a post is so lengthy, it is hard to go through it.
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      Cici
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      2. This isn't the answer I'm looking for & the gist is already said at outset.
Others are elaborations & it's not even that hard to read this length

Your comment feels rude
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    Yong
    I believe health benefits of the intermittent fasting is that your body uses the body fat stored in your system as energy during at least 10 hours of fasting period. 

In other words, your body fat can be burned during fasting hours to be used as energy. So, you liise that much of fat every day. 
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    Erin Neise
    I'd say yes, overeating during your 'window' is definitely detrimental to the goals of IF. I had weight loss surgery and many classes on nutrition and how to be successful after the surgery. One of the take aways from the classes was not to have "last meals" where you over eat or eat a bunch of junk food since that goes against the goals of what we are trying to accomplish. I feel the same thing applys to the IF eating window.