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A relative used IF to lose around 80lb, back to a normal weight. She was pre-diabetic, now is diabetic. Her experience was, if she woke up and ate, she would
by prirun 2y ago
A relative used IF to lose around 80lb, back to a normal weight. She was pre-diabetic, now is diabetic. Her experience was, if she woke up and ate, she would eat all day. But if she ignored her hunger pains until 1 or 2 in the afternoon, she ate a lot less. It got to the point where she was not even that hungry in the afternoon and ate only because she knew she had to eat.
I have never been overweight, so it's hard for me to say, but it seems like eating on a fixed schedule helps develop some discipline over hunger pains that overweight people may not have, or at least not much.
- xorvoid 2y agoI think it’s about finding a strategy that works for you. Ultimately it’s about the calorie deficit but you need to find strategies that make you comfortable with the deficit. A one size fits all solution never works. I lost a lot of weight and found that two things: (1) I’m allowed to eat any amount of healthy things: no limit, (2) exercise acts as a junk food craving suppressor for me. I tried intermittent fasting years later and it led me directly to binge eating. Might work for some people (awesome) but doesn’t works for me.