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It's both. IF forces you to schedule fewer times to eat, so you eat less. But there are changes to the body when calories are restricted for 16 hour more. Horm
by ak39 10y ago
It's both.
IF forces you to schedule fewer times to eat, so you eat less. But there are changes to the body when calories are restricted for 16 hour more. Hormonal changes that don't manifest when the body has regular insulin injected into the blood stream.
It's both.
- Retric 10y agoThis is all short term studies. I ate once a day for over a decade, it just means you eat a large meal. If anything stretching your stomach makes over eating easier as you get used to large meals so eating an extra one is easily adds an extra days food. Worse, you end up getting pushed to calorie dense food. PS: My original thought was it would save a lot of time which it probably did.
- parasitius 10y agoMy experience in the past 10 months has been 180 degrees opposite. My friends all know I eat once daily, and when we go to a restaurant with the perfect food to double-up on and pig out, I struggle to eat any more than anyone else eating just 1 meal of 3 for the day. I definitely feel my stomach has shrunk. I'm down 40lbs, but have been at this weight since month 2. A much more athletic friend's experiences combined with mine, we are slowing reaching the conclusion that 1x / 24hr can help with weightloss when you are 20~80lbs overweight. But once you are under that you need to start on 48 hr fasts to make progress. And calorie dense food? Ever since my paleo days 5 years back (a 1 yr experiment) I've continually eaten much more calorie dense foods on purpose, to reach satiety with greater ease. I will never, for example, consume whole milk. I drink straight glasses of half&half for the extra fat content and calories.