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Meal timing strategies appear to lower appetite, improve fat burning

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Re: Meal timing strategies appear to lower appetite, improve fat burning

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Post by busfahrer »

jimnotgym wrote: post #28
jedberg wrote: post #5

I tried IF for a while. I lost a couple pounds and then plateaued. What I realized is that the main thing it was doing was preventing me from snacking at night. I didn't really eat any more than normal during the eating period, I just didn't eat my usual outside of it. So exactly in line with the study. It just didn't do much for me weight-loss-wise. I was already skipping breakfast most days, so waiting until lunch…

Could you tell me what IF means please?

From some of the other comments my guess is that it means Intermittent Fasting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermittent_fasting

Re: Meal timing strategies appear to lower appetite, improve fat burning

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Post by benmaraschino »

mabbo wrote: post #15

11 adults in the experiment. No control group (other than against themselves). Experiment ran 8 days. I mean, I'm interested, but I want to see further research before I call this a real result.

While it’s often an ostensibly appealing point of criticism, it’s important to note that sample size is just one aspect of study design—the investigators used a crossover design, which substantially increases statistical power. In the Methods, they state that 10 subjects are sufficient to achieve 80% power, which (criticisms of NHST aside) is a generally accepted standard, i.e., to obtain NIH funding for a study, you must demonstrate in your grant application that your design achieves that 80% power benchmark.

Re: Meal timing strategies appear to lower appetite, improve fat burning

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Post by eurekin »

ellius wrote: post #25
eurekin wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did you get diagnosed?

Did an overnight study at a sleep clinic. I'd been told for years by friends that I made very weird gasping, snoring noises. After I'd been out of college a few years and realized I was fatigued literally every day despite going to sleep on time, I figured it was time to get checked.

Were you also sleepy during the day? Did you nap for hours as well?

Re: Meal timing strategies appear to lower appetite, improve fat burning

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Post by joshmn »

noodle wrote: post #13

To add my strictly anecdotal experience: I recently started to diet for the first time ever. Never really needed it, but getting older, I noticed my weight steadily increasing despite regular exercise and finally decided to change. I always skipped breakfast, but I became a bit more strict about timing and snacking at night in order to align with IF. Switched my diet to a lazy keto (basically adkins) diet - still don…

> Down 35lbs in ~2.5 months.

Good for you! Is this just from dieting? Or is there an exercise routine in here?

Re: Meal timing strategies appear to lower appetite, improve fat burning

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Post by _raoulcousins »

weeksie wrote: post #26
alexpetralia wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always appreciate how the HN crowd evaluates the quality of the evidence, not just the quality of the headline. Great filtering function.

There's usually one good post. The rest are almost always people sharing their diet stories. Or if the headline is about exercise, you get reams of stronglifts or 5x5 or whatever, nobody cares. It's what engineers tend to do when they're presented with a topic they don't have actual expertise in.

Is this specific to engineers? I noticed this in college classes across disciplines. A lot of the time that someone raised their hand, it was to share an anecdote and not a question.

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Post by ilaksh »

catotheyoungest wrote: post #2

This is strictly anecdotal, and I would honestly love to see this subjected to a rigorous study, but I lost twenty pounds without additional exercise or dietary changes in the last six months just by having a sleep study done, getting diagnosed with sleep apnea, and being put on a CPAP machine. How much obesity and depression could be prevented or alleviated just by making sure people could get a decent night's sleep…

Is it a CPAP or an APAP?

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Post by tantalor »

mabbo wrote: post #15

11 adults in the experiment. No control group (other than against themselves). Experiment ran 8 days. I mean, I'm interested, but I want to see further research before I call this a real result.

Title says "appear to...", not "does...", so there's that. Semantics counts.

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Post by lanstin »

hkmurakami wrote: post #6
privong wrote: post #3

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> How much obesity and depression could be prevented or alleviated just by making sure people could get a decent night's sleep? There's some body chemistry where being sleep deprived can manifest itself as hunger. I forget the details, but I read about it in "Why We Sleep"[0]. When I had a sleep study done, the pre-study questionnaire seemed to have more about depression symptoms than about sleep itself. [0] https://…

Definitely experienced that in finals period in college where I consciously substituted sleep with calories

I always tell myself, my coworkers, and my kids "If you don't sleep, eat" (else you might go totally bonkers).

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Post by zmmmmm »

_raoulcousins wrote: post #35
weeksie wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's usually one good post. The rest are almost always people sharing their diet stories. Or if the headline is about exercise, you get reams of stronglifts or 5x5 or whatever, nobody cares. It's what engineers tend to do when they're presented with a topic they don't have actual expertise in.

Is this specific to engineers? I noticed this in college classes across disciplines. A lot of the time that someone raised their hand, it was to share an anecdote and not a question.

I find it honestly surprising that I see it so much on HN. You have a group of people who largely identify themselves as being rational, objective, intelligent people - datascientists, engineers, etc. - who stereotypically I would think to be naturally sceptical and want to examine evidence closely.

But it's absolutely true, the minute some scientific study is posted there are 50 people writing comments that they believe it because yesterday something similar happened to their aunt etc. It's something I've never quite figured out.

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