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> The beautiful thing about long fasts is that it’s actually difficult to overeat in a short window.

Man, people who've never been fat have the strangest ideas.

Care to elaborate on the correlation? I've had the same experience as OP when I do 24 hour fasts.

I guess it depends on how short the window and what other restrictions you're placing (e.g. Penn's diet?). But yeah, I can put down 2000 calories at McDonald's in about 10 minutes. And I wasn't even _that_ fat at my fattest (5'10" and 205)

In my experience, the first 3 days are difficult. After that, it's easy. I've never gone longer than 5 days.

I seem to recall hearing that the big(gest) benefit of a short eating window of something up to 8 or 9 hours is reduced markers for inflammation and that working out before breaking fast might be good as well. Can't find sources right now though.