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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 noodle »

joshmn wrote: post #34
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?

I lift weights 3x/wk as well as a few other activities, and have been since long before I started the diet. I just didn't care at all about what I was eating all that much.

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

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Post by jokoon »

I've never understood the tradition of eating 3 meals a day. Sounds like it comes from religion.

If you eat when you're hungry, you will naturally eat less. I always have a good breakfast, and thus start to feel hungry around 3pm or 4pm. I eat then, and usually I don't feel hungry until I go to bed, and I never eat late in the day, simply because digesting at night is a bad idea.

Having lunch around noon is weird because I eat without being hungry.

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

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Post by noodle »

busymom0 wrote: post #30
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…

Mind sharing the types of foods and meats you eat?

I don't have a ton of consistency here. Things that are most consistent for me right now:

- I'm a pretty big fan of riced cauliflower blends, which you can get in basically any frozen foods section. Great replacement for rice. A quick easy meal is ground beef + a half bag of riced cauliflower stir fry mix.

- Another quick meal - Trader Joe's green vegetable foursome plus chicken. Add tons of butter, salt and garlic.

- Another quick meal - 3 or 4 egg omelette with shredded cheese topping. Put it on top of a bed of greens, and add some guac or an avocado.

- I make shoyu eggs pretty regularly to snack on.

- I snack on nuts and beef jerky a lot.

- If I'm not feeling very hungry, I'll eat an Adkins meal bar instead of anything bigger. Adkins stuff cuz its convenient, available in a lot of places, and low carb.

- After a workout, I'll drink a muscle milk pro series shake (the premade type, specifically because its low net carbs). Currently looking for better options that aren't just straight whey mixes.

- Adkins also makes some nice low-carb candy type things that I also grab when the notion strikes.

Lastly and probably most importantly, I drink a ton of water and have an increased salt intake, because cutting carbs leads to retaining less water and dehydrating easier. You just feel thirsty a lot more often. Drinking more water just so happens to also help you feel more full

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

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Post by abraham_s »

yurishimo wrote: post #46

I’ll add one more anecdote to the mix here. Been doing intermittent fasting and extended fasting since February and I’m down 75 pounds in that time. I used to snore like crazy, probably had sleep apnea but was too afraid to go get tested since my grandmother died from becoming dependent on the machine and her lungs failed. Now I don’t snore at all. My wife sleeps better, I sleep better; win win! I haven’t exercised a…

>>>I used to snore like crazy, probably had sleep apnea but was too afraid to go get tested since my grandmother died from becoming dependent on the machine and her lungs failed

I would like to hear more details on this. Being a CPAP machine user I have never heard of this (lungs failing) before.

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

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Post by arcturus17 »

jokoon wrote: post #142

I've never understood the tradition of eating 3 meals a day. Sounds like it comes from religion. If you eat when you're hungry, you will naturally eat less. I always have a good breakfast, and thus start to feel hungry around 3pm or 4pm. I eat then, and usually I don't feel hungry until I go to bed, and I never eat late in the day, simply because digesting at night is a bad idea. Having lunch around noon is weird bec…

I’m assuming you work a desk job. Your energy and appetite fluctuations wouldn’t be the same if you had a physically strenuous job.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

fyfy18 wrote: post #131
anaphor wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Milk can really spike your blood sugar levels as well, so I would be careful. Go for the whole fat type of milk rather than the skim milk or whatever.

What's wrong with skim milk? Is something added to replace the fat that was removed.

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

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Post by erik_seaberg »

abraham_s wrote: post #144
yurishimo wrote: post #46

I’ll add one more anecdote to the mix here. Been doing intermittent fasting and extended fasting since February and I’m down 75 pounds in that time. I used to snore like crazy, probably had sleep apnea but was too afraid to go get tested since my grandmother died from becoming dependent on the machine and her lungs failed. Now I don’t snore at all. My wife sleeps better, I sleep better; win win! I haven’t exercised a…

>>>I used to snore like crazy, probably had sleep apnea but was too afraid to go get tested since my grandmother died from becoming dependent on the machine and her lungs failed I would like to hear more details on this. Being a CPAP machine user I have never heard of this (lungs failing) before.

CPAP just splints the airway open, but BiPAP actually has an inhale/exhale cycle, so maybe they use it for people who have trouble breathing on their own?

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

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Post by barking »

tom_ wrote: post #97
barking wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well done, 75 lbs (or 5 stone, 5 pounds in real money) is incredible.

Note for UK people: this is 5.35714 stone, or 5 stone and 2.27 kg.

Why would you give a weight in a combination of imperial AND metric units?!

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

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Post by houqp »

yurishimo wrote: post #46

I’ll add one more anecdote to the mix here. Been doing intermittent fasting and extended fasting since February and I’m down 75 pounds in that time. I used to snore like crazy, probably had sleep apnea but was too afraid to go get tested since my grandmother died from becoming dependent on the machine and her lungs failed. Now I don’t snore at all. My wife sleeps better, I sleep better; win win! I haven’t exercised a…

Could you give more details on how the machine caused lung failure? I am thinking of getting a CPAP for my family. Would like to do more research on it.
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