IF Groups on Social Media

I recently joined an intermediate fasting group on Facebook, and I'm actually quite surprised at the comments and posts I see on it. It seems like the IF noobs haven't researched anything about intermediate fasting at all, and the people who have been doing it a while are fed up with the new people. I can't really blame the veterans, but I expected the entire scene to be a little more supportive.

It's pretty interesting that many people claim that everyone else has no idea what they are doing. Some are completely clueless though, so it's frustrating from both sides. As someone who has researched it all quite a bit, along with doing private experimentation to determine how many diets and life styles affect my own body, I can say that most of the people on the group have bad opinions especially as it pertains to me.

There are some questions on the group that would have been better asked on Google. I mean I saw a new person as if protein drinks would be considered breaking the fast. Seriously? Of course it's breaking your fast. Protein drinks are full of protein, which your body and use to create glucose. If you are taking in protein, you are no longer fasting. It's that simple.

I saw one person ask if they could smoke while fasting, which could have simply been answered with a "sure why not", but most of the people on the board took the opportunity to trash the person for smoking. One lady even went so far as to say "if you can fast for 16 hours, you fan easy not smoke." Trust me, that's complete BS. I quit smoking last year and that was way more difficult than going 30 hours straight without food.

I'm just surprised at some of the hostility in a group of people who are all striving to do the same thing. It's not like they are in competition with each other. I suspect the problem is that everyone feels like they know a lot about the subject. I program for a living. There's a lot to computer science and programming in general. Fasting is pretty simple. Fasting + Keto is pretty simple. Changing your eating habits is simple. I don't know why so many people try to overcomplicate something so simple.

Losing weight isn't easy, but it's not complicated. It's just difficult to accomplish. It's still a simple process. There's no super secret thing that is hiding from everyone. You simple eat less than you burn. There's not a lot a more to it than that. Sure there's a lot of theory and physiological things we can discuss in detail that make the issue seem more complex, but we can make any subject way more complicated than it really is if we dive into the details. If you are going to fast, just fast. Why try to cheat at something as simple as fasting?