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As someone who’s lost 15 pounds since Christmas doing nothing but eating in a restricted 2 hour window rigidly most days. This doesn’t surprise me. Long low blo

As someone who’s lost 15 pounds since Christmas doing nothing but eating in a restricted 2 hour window rigidly most days. This doesn’t surprise me. Long low blood sugar periods and it’s much easier to get a single window of eating under control.

nirushiv 6y ago
But.. but... they didn’t report significant effects
- toast0 6y ago
  The problem I have with diet research is that the studies (and the internet commenters) are always looking for one thing that everyone can do and get good results. The body is a complex system, and different people's bodies work differently. Really, what I want to know from a diet study is were their negative effects, and did it work for a significant amount of the people. Ideally, for those who it seems to work, do a longer term study to look for negative effects and long term results for people who stick to to it. If you get enough of these studies, and I'd like to change my diet to control my weight, I can try things until I find one that seems to work for me, and have some confidence that it works long term for people who it works for. One diet to rule them all is the same thing as everyone should run the same HTTP server. I love apache, but different systems work better with different servers.
  - Xunjin 6y ago
    Our heuristics tends to find a pattern in things. The problem with this behavior is that there is no "silver bullet" solution or pattern ... What I am trying to say is, you are totally right here. I suffer from IBS, and if I just try IF for one day my entire guts go really nuts (I have mixed type of IBS).
antupis 6y ago
I think is genetic because I have noticed that for me best way to lose weight is to pretty big calorie restriction(about 1600kcal daily) with lots of protein (120g<). I have tried intermittent fasting and personally I don't like it I am always very hungry or it does not affect my weight.
- dazc 6y ago
  Different stratgeies will work for different people. Is it genetic, phsycological, emotional, a combination of each, I don't know? The reason IF works for me is that I know I can eat pretty much what I want so long as it's reasonably healthy (lots of veg, fruit) and I only do that once a day. A traditional calorie controlled diet works also in the short term but it's miserable and, eventually, I break just as, anecedotally, most other people do too
- moltar 6y ago
  In studies, caloric restrictions had shown to slow metabolism, which leads to reduced weight loss over time. Then when a person rebounds or quits, then all of that weight comes back even quicker. I encourage you to try IF for a longer period. A week or two. There’s an adjustment period after which it becomes easier and then becomes the norm. Also I find low carb, but not necessarily keto works better with IF. Essentially the goal is not to spike insulin too often.

nirushiv 6y ago

But.. but... they didn’t report significant effects

toast0 6y ago
The problem I have with diet research is that the studies (and the internet commenters) are always looking for one thing that everyone can do and get good results. The body is a complex system, and different people's bodies work differently. Really, what I want to know from a diet study is were their negative effects, and did it work for a significant amount of the people. Ideally, for those who it seems to work, do a longer term study to look for negative effects and long term results for people who stick to to it. If you get enough of these studies, and I'd like to change my diet to control my weight, I can try things until I find one that seems to work for me, and have some confidence that it works long term for people who it works for. One diet to rule them all is the same thing as everyone should run the same HTTP server. I love apache, but different systems work better with different servers.
- Xunjin 6y ago
  Our heuristics tends to find a pattern in things. The problem with this behavior is that there is no "silver bullet" solution or pattern ... What I am trying to say is, you are totally right here. I suffer from IBS, and if I just try IF for one day my entire guts go really nuts (I have mixed type of IBS).

antupis 6y ago

I think is genetic because I have noticed that for me best way to lose weight is to pretty big calorie restriction(about 1600kcal daily) with lots of protein (120g<). I have tried intermittent fasting and personally I don't like it I am always very hungry or it does not affect my weight.

dazc 6y ago
Different stratgeies will work for different people. Is it genetic, phsycological, emotional, a combination of each, I don't know? The reason IF works for me is that I know I can eat pretty much what I want so long as it's reasonably healthy (lots of veg, fruit) and I only do that once a day. A traditional calorie controlled diet works also in the short term but it's miserable and, eventually, I break just as, anecedotally, most other people do too
moltar 6y ago
In studies, caloric restrictions had shown to slow metabolism, which leads to reduced weight loss over time. Then when a person rebounds or quits, then all of that weight comes back even quicker. I encourage you to try IF for a longer period. A week or two. There’s an adjustment period after which it becomes easier and then becomes the norm. Also I find low carb, but not necessarily keto works better with IF. Essentially the goal is not to spike insulin too often.