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He claims to have been following this diet for three months whilst maintaining the same weight, and only started seeing a drop in his weight after starting to f

• dragonwriter 12y ago
  > He claims to have been following this diet for three months whilst maintaining the same weight, and only started seeing a drop in his weight after starting to fast for one day a week (standard sample size disclaimer etc etc). Its interesting that I don't notice any discussion of caloric intake on either model -- if he was eating the same except skipping one day of food later, then you are looking at a ~14% reduction in weekly caloric intake, which, without any special effect of fasting, you'd expect to turbocharge weight loss.
  • smallegan 12y ago
    That depends on how many calories you are taking in. If you eat 5k calories a day and suddenly fast 1 day a week you aren't going to lose weight you will just stop gaining as quickly.
    • dragonwriter 12y ago
      > That depends on how many calories you are taking in. "Turbocharge weight loss" means that there is existing weight loss to turbocharge. If you are losing weight, reduce weekly calorie intake by 14% and change nothing else, I think the description is accurate independent of the pre-existing intake level.