Natious on EPRHA again

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My grandpa does a 1 month fast every year, I can only imagine how tough that is. He only drinks water during that time. But you would be surprised how great of a shape he's in, he looks like he's barely 40 although he's 60 and more energy than an average 30 year old.

By the way how do you calculate the 16/8? Because the last meal takes about 8 hours to digest and that's when the fasting actually starts.

Another thing I have noticed is that coffee gives me a much bigger boost while I'm fasting.

1 month?! ***** hell. I don't think i'll try that one. But sounds like he's doing something right with those results!

I just do it from when I eat my last meal. Usually i'll eat around 6:30pm so then I won't eat until 10:30am the next day. All i'll have is water. I'm not sure where you got the waiting for the meal to digest thing as none of the material i've read has mentioned that.

I treat coffee as part of eating in a way as I have milk in it, I haven't tried it while still fasting.

He doesn't do much else during the fast, mostly just relaxes, reads and watches tv.

I can't remember where I read it, but if you think about it the body can't go into the fasted state if it's still digesting the last big meal. That takes roughly 8 hours. With that you could calculate the actual time you spend being fasted, although I think the general guideline is that whenever you don't eat you fast so it's up to you which way you look at it. Makes more sense to me that fasting starts after everything is digested.

I can say that at least when I learned how to do IF last year, the fasting period was just whenever you stop eating for the day. So if you finish your last meal at 10:00. You would be considered to be fasting at 10:01