I have never skipped breakfast. I did train fasted for years, and I stopped in my early forties because I was losing muscle I could not afford to lose. I am a nutritionist specializing in women’s hormones and metabolic health for over 20 years. The women who arrive in my practice most depleted are almost always the most disciplined ones. You fasted. You went carnivore. You cut the carbs to almost nothing. And for three months you felt incredible. Clear head, high energy, weight moving. You thought you had cracked it. A randomized trial in Psychosomatic Medicine put 121 women through three weeks. The group held at 1200 calories a day had higher total cortisol output. That clarity you are running on is a stress response. It gets repaid. A 12 week randomized trial in JAMA Internal Medicine compared 16:8 against three meals in 116 adults. The weight difference was not significant. The fasting group lost more lean mass in the arms and legs. You gave up the meal and paid in muscle. Then...