Elsa Pataky reveals that her and Chris Hemsworth fast 16 hours every day

[saintclaire87]

Además la actriz ha compartido 'tips' de nutrición y entrenamiento que hace junto con su marido.https://t.co/Ta207dzG1n
- Women's Health Spain (@WomensHealthESP) November 20, 2019

Elsa Pataky is promoting her new fitness book, Strong. The actress made an appearance on the Spanish show El Hormiguero and discussed some of her fitness tips

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[sandstorm]

yeah like...if you're sleeping, it's easy.

Also I hope they fast before they work out for 30 minutes each day.

[bellwetherr]

one of the facets of IF is cardio while fasting

[babs]

encourages unhealthy thinking

this is such an underrated fact. sure, there are benefits, but there are totally downsides like this too.

[clymnestra]

same, I didn't really lose weight and I was just anxious all the time thinking about managing my eating

[maggielizabeth]

definitely. my ex does intermittent fasting, and i sometimes felt like he had an ed. i tried it, but just does't work with my work life (i work evenings, and i can't take a break at the same time every day, it's sporadic)

[modern_toilet]

to piggy back on that, i think people don't realize that eating disorders go FAR BEYOND just anorexia and bulimia. i like to switch the words around to "disordered eating" because it weirdly helps people realize that ED's are a huge range of different things.

for me, i grew up in what people would call "picky" in the 90's, but today would classify as an ED. i found 99% of foods to be absolutely repulsive just by sight and would have a mental break down if asked to eat anything. i also refused to eat in front of anyone. that shit is straight up disordered eating.

[maidenhell]

I was the same way. Only as an adult have I realized that it was disordered eating. It wasn't even so much to stay thin. Mentally, it was just something I justified.

I'm now older and finally learning to have a real relationship with the food I eat.

[marmar627]

I like "disordered eating," that's a good label for me. I basically eat bread and dairy. I'll say "I don't eat meat" (I do like chicken noodle soup/chicken and dumplings) and that gets interpreted as vegetarian or vegan, neither of which really apply to me. It's, kinda like you said, a repulsive issue and/or a texture issue.

[aristobrit]

I would like to see some studies about fasting because I don't think it's healthy. Your body needs fuel throughout the day. When you starve it, you start screwing up your metabolism.

[spellmanian]

You already "fast" for at least a minimum of 8 hours a day if you eat from the moment you wake up to when you go to sleep. Most people don't do that so a lot of people naturally don't eat for 12-16 hours out of the day. I wouldn't call that starving.

[eveofrevolution]

[picklejarre]

That’s already scientifically proven. The researcher won a Nobel Prize for it.

Fasting puts you in the state of autophagy. Allows your cells to eat your dead cells. That is why it’s linked to anti-aging.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2016/press-release/

A lot of people only eat twice a day. If you’re full, why eat? Three meals a day is not the holy grail. In fact, this made me gain weight even more personally despite being health conscious because I work an office job where extra calories being burned is non-existent. I was plateauing and fasting broke that ceiling for me (plus exercise and balanced diet)

[cbluechicken]

Love this. Science nerd here. Lemme read 👀

[lloyd_llewellyn]

but what's considered actual fasting. like do you fast from the moment you wake up until say 6-8pm in the evening or is sleeping factored in? and are you allowed liquids (apart from water) of any sorts?

[sugartitty]

Sleep is factored is and as far as I understand it you can drink anything that doesnt have calories--so black coffee for example is fine. So if you have dinner at say 6 PM and then skip breakfast the next morning and don't eat till lunchtime, which a lot of people already do without thinking about it, then congratulations, you've done a 16 hour fast.