Losing weight is all about triggering the body's mechanisms to convert fat into energy, and not triggering its mechanisms to turn food into fat. Counting calori

Losing weight is all about triggering the body's mechanisms to convert fat into energy, and not triggering its mechanisms to turn food into fat. Counting calories or exercising more are the most basic attempts to do this. If you want to add a bit of nuance you can play around with what you eat, how you exercise, when you do each. But the key thing is this: We're all different. I've decided to lose weight a couple of times, on the order of 20-40 pounds each time. What has worked for me has been a combination of generally eating/drinking less, concentrating almost all of that into a small time window, and a fair bit of running. But the reason it works for me is very specific to what it takes to kick my body into fat-burning mode, how fast and how long my body sustains that, how this affects my energy levels, my physical ability to perform various kinds of exercise or tolerate various kinds of discomfort (e.g. I don't mind running on an empty stomach but I hate sleeping that way), and so on. Something vaguely similar to what I do might work for a lot of people, but the devil's in the details. My specific formula won't work for you. Experiment and find your own. The best thing about the recent IF/TRF/OMAD/whatever fad is not that it provides a specific blueprint but that it encourages people to experiment with different variations to find their own balance points.