{"id":10114,"date":"2021-03-13T02:37:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10114"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:03","slug":"intermittent-fasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10114","title":{"rendered":"INTERMITTENT FASTING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Someone has described &#8220;intermittent fasting&#8221; as American-Fitness-Guru Speak for &#8220;skipping breakfast&#8221;, but it is a bit more than that. In essence, it is eating only within the time boundaries of a specified window each day. So, for example, eating nothing before 11:00 AM and then nothing after 7:00 PM, but eating normally during the 8 hours between.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a simple idea and I find it a useful practice now and then. It reminds me of three basic truths that apply far beyond diet considerations:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1) Hunger pangs are uncomfortable, but not fatal.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2) I find that my willpower can more easily handle cutting out my consumption of food entirely (for a short time) than cutting <b><i>back<\/i><\/b> on my consumption all day long. It&#8217;s no contest, in fact.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3) Self-control is a muscle that grows stronger with exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone has described &#8220;intermittent fasting&#8221; as American-Fitness-Guru Speak for &#8220;skipping breakfast&#8221;, but it is a bit more than that. In essence, it is eating only within the time boundaries of a specified window each day. So, for example, eating nothing before 11:00 AM and then nothing after 7:00 PM, but eating normally during the 8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10115,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10114\/revisions\/10115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}