[piqi]

Hard to imagine skipping breakfast, lunch, coffee/tea w/milk & cream, and all snacking during the day, everyday is normal outside America. Isn't burned bread with beans or butter for breakfast a thing in the UK?

16:8 means if your last calories are before 10PM, you wouldn't eat anything at all until after 2 PM. And this would be every day, not every other day.

12:12 might be more common, but not consistently.

[makeitup1818w1]

It’s more common in parts Europe than you’d think I guess, with the last calories around 8-9pm until 1pm (or 11pm until 3pm a bit southwest of here) there are variants around that of course and I’m less sure how common this is everywhere in Europe, but where I’ve lived a lot of us eat like that. It’s not some fad just a long held habit, not sure where it came from or why so many of us seem to do it here.

That said, it is changing by the day and I see more teenagers snacking at odd times.

[geraldwhen]

In America, I find that anyone “snacking” is overweight or obese.

There is no need to snack. Meals are plenty enough as is, and as this thread is indicating, maybe even one meal too many.