> Knowledge of leptin changes this because what you eat does actually matter. The goal should be intermittent fasting, where you eat little-to-no carbs about fi

> Knowledge of leptin changes this because what you eat does actually matter. The goal should be intermittent fasting, where you eat little-to-no carbs about five consecutive days/week and then plenty of carbs two consecutive days/week. This approach ensures leptin levels in the obese body remain high enough to prevent onset of starvation mode while minimizing glucose levels to promote catabolic action on body fat [1]. I hate to post the same video in the same thread twice, but this video dives into carb cycling, and explains that actually it is calorie cycling that makes the difference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwZfryrVddY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwZfryrVddY FWIW, and I'm a big keto proponent, the goal should be whatever works. Keto is super effective for some people, and completely useless for others. Research has started to figure out why some people respond to keto better than others, but low carb fails really hard for a certain % of the population, works obscenely well for another % of the population, and works as well as any other dieting system for the majority of the population. As someone for whom keto works really well (I was on keto for 5 years, training 12hrs+ a week in the gym!), I totally spent time promoting low carb to everyone, until I tried to help some people for whom it just didn't work at all.