Intermittent fasting may make little difference to weight loss, review finds
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Re: Intermittent fasting may make little difference to weight loss, review finds
#2> restricting eating to a short window - often about eight hours
8 hours is not a short window. I'm pretty sure Golden Corral will kick you out somewhere around hour #3.
Re: Intermittent fasting may make little difference to weight loss, review finds
#3I've lost over 100lbs in the past year.
* I only eat one meal a day (supper). It's usually a very large meal, very high in lean protein.
* I avoid sugars and starches of all kinds and minimize other carbs (fruit, root veg, grains).
* After eating, I do 30 minutes on the treadmill.
For a middle-aged woman (a category which finds it particularly hard to lose weight) this has worked rather well. I can eat as much meat, (non-root) veg, dairy and soy as I want and I just keep losing weight.
So no, calorie restriction isn't the 'only way'.
Re: Intermittent fasting may make little difference to weight loss, review finds
#4I've lost over 100lbs in the past year. * I only eat one meal a day (supper). It's usually a very large meal, very high in lean protein. * I avoid sugars and starches of all kinds and minimize other carbs (fruit, root veg, grains). * After eating, I do 30 minutes on the treadmill. For a middle-aged woman (a category which finds it particularly hard to lose weight) this has worked rather well. I can eat as much meat,…
isn't one meal a day another form of calorie restriction though?
It's very difficult to not be in a calorie deficit when you only eat once a day and are consistently active.
Re: Intermittent fasting may make little difference to weight loss, review finds
#5I've lost over 100lbs in the past year. * I only eat one meal a day (supper). It's usually a very large meal, very high in lean protein. * I avoid sugars and starches of all kinds and minimize other carbs (fruit, root veg, grains). * After eating, I do 30 minutes on the treadmill. For a middle-aged woman (a category which finds it particularly hard to lose weight) this has worked rather well. I can eat as much meat,…
What you describe in your diet is significant calorie restriction...
Re: Intermittent fasting may make little difference to weight loss, review finds
#6My understanding of intermittent fasting is that it can encourage "garbage collection" of the body pruning the dead/sickly cells. Weight loss/gain is still driven by calories in/out.
Re: Intermittent fasting may make little difference to weight loss, review finds
#7I've lost over 100lbs in the past year. * I only eat one meal a day (supper). It's usually a very large meal, very high in lean protein. * I avoid sugars and starches of all kinds and minimize other carbs (fruit, root veg, grains). * After eating, I do 30 minutes on the treadmill. For a middle-aged woman (a category which finds it particularly hard to lose weight) this has worked rather well. I can eat as much meat,…
How do you know that spreading that one meal out throughout the day wouldn't have the same effect? I bet you'd have more energy as well.
Unless you have tested this, I find it hard to believe that this isn't really just a caloric deficit compared to whatever you were doing before losing weight, assuming the same activity level.
Re: Intermittent fasting may make little difference to weight loss, review finds
#8I've lost over 100lbs in the past year. * I only eat one meal a day (supper). It's usually a very large meal, very high in lean protein. * I avoid sugars and starches of all kinds and minimize other carbs (fruit, root veg, grains). * After eating, I do 30 minutes on the treadmill. For a middle-aged woman (a category which finds it particularly hard to lose weight) this has worked rather well. I can eat as much meat,…
What you describe in your diet is significant calorie restriction...
... is it? It really depends on how large that meal is. What if it's a daily mukbang?
Re: Intermittent fasting may make little difference to weight loss, review finds
#9> Intermittent fasting may make little difference to weight loss.
My personal experience is quite the opposite. In fact, this is the first time I have heard anybody claim that intermittent fasting, when done correctly, does not make you lose weight. Sounds like a study done by people who sell weight-loss drugs or meals.
Intermittent fasting is one of the more reliable ways to lose weight.
Re: Intermittent fasting may make little difference to weight loss, review finds
#10Personal experience says otherwise. Low carb/slow carb diet plus fasting 100% did it for me. 40 lbs gone, and have kept it off even while backing off of the initial rigidity. Everything in moderation, especially alcohol. Beer is a huge carb load, so that had to go entirely. Pasta as well. Potatoes too. Sure, I have a couple fries (or chippies for the BBC crew), but it’s all about those being scarce. It’s actually pretty easy to intermittent fast. Eat dinner and be done before 8pm and have lunch around 1pm the next day. Have coffee or tea in the morning.
What really accelerated weight loss for me was extremely rigid ketogenesis. Felt amazingly sharp and dialed in every morning, slept well, shredded pounds.