It's all about the calories. If you reduce them, you'll lose weight. If you increase them, you'll gain weight. Simple to say but difficult to do because we thin

It's all about the calories. If you reduce them, you'll lose weight. If you increase them, you'll gain weight. Simple to say but difficult to do because we think we have to eat when we feel hungry. We don't because we have fat reserves but our body wants to save those for famines, which we don't experience. The best way I've found to eat less is to combine keto and intermittent fasting. Reducing carbs reduces sugar spikes and crashes. A sugar crash makes you feel hungry. If you eat protein and healthy fats instead of carbs, you reduce your sugar spikes and crashes, thus reducing your feeling hungry. If I eat a meal of protein and fats, but no carbs, I can go 8 hours without feeling hungry. This alone didn't help me lose weight because it wasn't forcing my body to use up the fat reserves on my body. Intermittent fasting can do that. I would eat two meals each day at 2pm and 8pm. I ate at 8pm because I knew I wouldn't get hungry before going to bed and I wouldn't feel hungry while sleeping. When I got up, I didn't eat. My stomach remained asleep so to speak. By 2pm I had gone 18 hours without eating. After the first 12 hours, my body started using up my fat reserves. At 2pm I had been burning fat for 6 hours. If I didn't reduce my carbs, I wouldn't be able to fast intermittently because I'd be too hungry.