Timeouts from intermittent fasting - acne

[MC Paul Barman]

I've been doing intermittent fasting for awhile now.... I keep my fasting window between 16-18 hours on most days. I know some might take exception with this but when I eat I'll eat pretty much whatever I want. I'm not gorging myself but I'm not putting forth much of an effort on only eating this or that.

And the weight still just drops off. It's crazy... something I never would have expected.

Anyway - some days I'll just take off entirely and eat whenever and whatever. But those days when I'm eating sweets during a time when I'm typically fasting I'll notice that I'll get acne pretty quickly. Say someone brings cupcakes into the office: I might decide to put off fasting and have one (five). I've begun to notice that very shortly after doing that I'll get a few spots of acne mainly on my shoulders and upper arms.

It's interesting to see how much more sensitive my body is to sugar now.

 

[biscuitsbrah]

Id guess it’s your digestive system being more efficient and responsive. So you would feel anything you put in your body when typically fasting much stronger.

I would guess fasting is like a mini-reset. Like a short tolerance break from food, nutrients, and calories.

I’d love to try IF but way too hard eating a ton of calories in only 8 hours. Especially if I am burning a shit load everyday

 

[Myprotein]

Surprising that sweets are causing the spots? Although they’ll be a genetic component. It’s normally heavily processed fatty foods that wreak havoc on my skin.