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A beginner's guide to intermittent fasting (2012)

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Re: A beginner's guide to intermittent fasting (2012)

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Intermittent fasting works because you end up eating less calories. On the other hand, shifting your eating to earlier in the day while eating the same amount of calories leads to weight loss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQThN6e4PD4 I don't have a reference to it handy, but I know Rhonda Patrick talk about this: it takes a minimum of three days fasting in humans to reproduce the effects seen in one day fasting in…

Yet another person acting like "calories-in calories-out" is the only variable in dieting. Good grief. There's a lot of psychology to it. I've lost a bunch of weight just eating 2 meals a day and make that "the law". I don't really count calories. I eat a small plate of food that is "whole" food and not crap. probably 600-800 calories most meals. Occassionally on the weekend I'll relent on a saturday to go out with f…

Number of calories is the only option, but there are many techniques for compliance. I'm fine with saying that skipping meals and snacking helps some people compliance, hunger issues etc... and do it myself, but want to warn against the idea that one can eat as much as they want as long as they eat on a magical schedule.

Re: A beginner's guide to intermittent fasting (2012)

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If I skip breakfast I often eat like a maniac come lunchtime if I’m not strict with myself

I'm a "breakfast is my most important meal" person and therefore I eat breakfast and lunch but skip dinner. Works too!

I’ve been doing this for 10 days now, since the day of your comment. It’s been really great. Energy levels are good, clod is solid, lost a bit of weight, and I’m sleeping really well.
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