It's clear that given the same calorie input, there is little difference.
The main benefits of intermittent fasting are not in weight loss, but:
- Give your bowels the time to run the "cleaning program" (rumbling) - Reduce inflammation
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#22This is how all dieting works. Specific techniques in isolation rarely have a huge impact, but that doesn't actually matter.
Any framework that causes an overwieght person to genuinely pay attention to what they eat will have a weight loss impact, because all you have to do to lose weight is eat less. The wide variety of dieting techniques are a good thing because it maximizes the likelihood that any individual will find a framework that induces them to pay attention to their eating habits.
I've gone through many weight loss cycles using various techniques including OMAD. Eating once a day changes your relationship with food, and disrupting that relationship is a thousand times more important than whatever obscure biological processes the fitness gurus suppose are in play.
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#23In a couple of days ~2 billion people world-wide will begin intermittent fasting, done from dawn to sunset, for a month, which is one of the components of the month of Ramadan. Nobody does this to lose weight, or even changes their diet, yet everyone loses some weight. 5lb is typical. Most people who fast Ramadan also gain it back afterward because they didn't make any changes to their diet, which points to the effec…
You don't lose less/more weight if you have the same calories input without intermittent fasting. That's well established and the study doesn't show anything surprising.
However, there's more than weight. I wonder if Ramadan has a lasting impact on blood sugar stability, for example.
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#24> 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.
You lose weight by reducing calories intake. That's well known and what the review, unsurprisingly, has shown.
Methods like intermittent fasting work by providing a framework that makes it easier for people to achieve that.
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#25Intermittent fasting can be not only about weight loss but helping manage, balance or regulate many bodily functions.
Also, assertions in support of consumption should be reviewed to make sure it's not put forward into media and study by consumptionists.
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#26It's clear that given the same calorie input, there is little difference. The main benefits of intermittent fasting are not in weight loss, but: - Give your bowels the time to run the "cleaning program" (rumbling) - Reduce inflammation
A priori I am very suspicious of any magic diet claims that bring up “inflammation”. I know that chronic inflammation seems to be a major problem among western diets, but that’s exactly why it has become this unfalsifiable catch-all explanation for anyone who wants to sell you something. The seed oil people also smoothly switched to “inflammation” once it became clear there was no correlation between seed oil intake and obesity rates.
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#27> 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.
You lose weight by reducing calories intake. That's well known and what the review, unsurprisingly, has shown. Methods like intermittent fasting work by providing a framework that makes it easier for people to achieve that.
The problem with recuing calorie intake is that it can also lead to lethargy, where you burn even less calories, and reducing intake even more means you arent getting vital nutrients.
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#28How do people that do this exercise? are they mostly sedentary?
I mostly ride bikes for exercise and need fuel at least every hour on a ride or else I will bonk out. My output is 500kcal/hour based on power meter, a 4 hour ride would be 2000kcal, it's not doable without some food intake.
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