Usher Reveals Why He Doesn't Eat on Wednesdays

[hewontgo]

Usher Reveals Why He Doesn't Eat on Wednesdays https://t.co/1j856tkvwk
- E! News (@enews) June 17, 2024

Usher offered insight into his health and wellness routine.

He doesn't eat any meals on Wednesdays.
"I fast, not for religious purposes, but it's something my grandmother practiced. I fast on Wednesdays. I typically try to start around 11 p.m.

Comments

[alwayspolaris]

I think we've normalized disordered eating a little too much, people are way too comfortable promoting fasting/not eating as part of a normal regimen (even religious fasters are supposed to be mindful of their health when doing so). Any sort of extreme restriction on calories (<1200 for women <1500 for men) or on major macronutrient groups has the potential to do real damage to your body and shouldn't be undertaken without medical support and necessity. Fasting and diets like keto can put serious strain on the heart especially, and also deprive the brain of necessary energy.

[ilovespooons]

[trigger warning for disordered eating]Yeah I work in tech and a guy I worked with started intermittent fasting. Literally within a week he was telling us that he went from 8 hours of fasting to 16, and soon after that he was telling us "I've been fasting for 48 hours! :)". I'm generally a coward for confrontation but I couldn't help but say "oh.... that sounds like an eating disorder." He only knew about bulimia and when I described anorexia it did surprise him that the thing I was describing was what his "diet" was

[alwayspolaris]

I'm glad you talked to him. I think diet culture has really warped our idea of what's healthy and what's not.

[ilovespooons]

I don't think it changed his behavior at that point (he got a new job soon after that but I did see him around for a while) but I hope it at least gave him a seed of doubt that it was a good thing to do

[piratesswoop]

yeah like i did the 12 hr intermitten fasting because it helped me avoid snacking by making sure i just ate between 8am and 8pm but when i joined some of the IF groups, i was shocked at how disordered their discussions were. like your co-worker, it was a lot of people more or less bragging about how many hours/days they went. it's so unsafe.

[italyatmidnight]

I work in eating disorder treatment and sadly, that's often how restrictive eating disorders develop and progress. They start with a desire to "get healthy" or lose weight, but as it progresses, new "goals" of weight, exercise intensity or duration, etc. (in your coworker's case, how long he was fasting) change because it's never "enough" and the illness isn't satisfied. I applaud you providing that feedback to your coworker and I hope it led to healing for him.

Just as a PSA to anyone who might read this comment, the most recent research I've seen estimates that about 1 in 25 people who diet end up with an eating disorder. Eating disorders are also the second most deadly psychiatric illness, only recently surpassed by opioid use disorder. This shit is serious.

[artsyfartsy01]

I'm glad you said something! I used to work retail and most of my coworkers were women between 17 and 30, and a lot of them were always dieting/fasting/'working on their weight'. it was a progressive workplace so it would all be framed like 'it's healthier to just eat vegetables' and 'I feel more awake when I've been fasting' and I just.. girl, no matter how you dress it up, that's an eating disorder
one of them kept talking about how much she had eaten, like listing all the things she ate yesterday and expecting me to be.. shocked? surprised? disgusted? I still don't know. I didn't know how to tell her that it was really hard for me to hear, like most people raised as a girl, I have my own issues with food! I don't need yours as well!
talking about weight and dieting is so insanely normalized and I really wish it wasn't

[italyatmidnight]

I work in eating disorder treatment and it makes me so sad how much fasting and restriction are normalized in our society. Diet culture is incredibly insidious.

When I was in my early 20s, I remember seeing 1200 calories thrown around so much as the "recommended" daily caloric intake if you were a woman trying to lose weight. 1200 calories is the recommended daily caloric intake for a toddler.

[truth_and_facts]

Lol, a single day fast is not going to destroy your entire body, what the hell kinda non-scientific fear mongering logic?