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Just from completely personal experience I can confirm the positive effects - if paired with good food and exercise. I've been doing IF for roughly 3 months now

Just from completely personal experience I can confirm the positive effects - if paired with good food and exercise. I've been doing IF for roughly 3 months now (16 hours fast per day, which is pretty easy to do by skipping breakfast) and combined it with leaving out all the crappy food I ate. You know, the usual gaming/coding/convenience stuff like chips. That and regular sports (rowing) not only resulted in weigh loss (which most likely was just from reduced calorie count, not IF per se) and strongly improved blood pressure (from high to normal). So, at least in my case, the combination of the three factors made a massive difference. At the same time, I doubt IF by itself would do much if during the rest of the time you ate 3000 calories from chocolate and chips.

hoers 11y ago
Just out of curiosity: do you substitute your breakfast with something? I'm on a stinging nettle + mate tea combination but slowly need something new for my taste buds
- andy_ppp 11y ago
  I make a nice tea with Ginger, Fresh Turmeric Root, Cloves and Cinnamon. It tastes amazing :-)
- xerula 11y ago
  There's a whole world of fine and unusual teas to discover and enjoy. When I fast, I want a tea that provides more meaty aromas and a more complex taste experience – a food substitute that also gives a 'cleansing' sensation. (It's hard to be precise about what I mean by 'cleansing', but something like the opposite of the typical cloying English breakfast black tea). A fine kabusecha or gyokuro with their intense umami flavors can provide that. At the moment I have some Japanese 'bancha goishicha', a wildly different style from the green teas made from the same plants, a strange and strangely delicious double-fermented tea with tangy seaweed and mushroomy notes that is like a meal in itself.
ak1394 11y ago
Same here, although I skip entire days not eating. Also, I think it get's easier to go without food for a day after a couple of months doing it. I would attribute the improvement in blood pressure to an exercise, not IF (at least this was my case, as I've started going to gym before I started IF and seen the blood pressure drop).
bkmartin 11y ago
How do you know if IF itself made any difference? You've got too many moving parts to pin it down exactly. There is tons of evidence that cutting junk food, plus rowing would possibly do the same thing without IF. Have you tried to add a small wholesome breakfast to test for any changes to try and pin down a difference for IF?

hoers 11y ago

Just out of curiosity: do you substitute your breakfast with something? I'm on a stinging nettle + mate tea combination but slowly need something new for my taste buds

andy_ppp 11y ago
I make a nice tea with Ginger, Fresh Turmeric Root, Cloves and Cinnamon. It tastes amazing :-)
xerula 11y ago
There's a whole world of fine and unusual teas to discover and enjoy. When I fast, I want a tea that provides more meaty aromas and a more complex taste experience – a food substitute that also gives a 'cleansing' sensation. (It's hard to be precise about what I mean by 'cleansing', but something like the opposite of the typical cloying English breakfast black tea). A fine kabusecha or gyokuro with their intense umami flavors can provide that. At the moment I have some Japanese 'bancha goishicha', a wildly different style from the green teas made from the same plants, a strange and strangely delicious double-fermented tea with tangy seaweed and mushroomy notes that is like a meal in itself.

ak1394 11y ago

Same here, although I skip entire days not eating. Also, I think it get's easier to go without food for a day after a couple of months doing it. I would attribute the improvement in blood pressure to an exercise, not IF (at least this was my case, as I've started going to gym before I started IF and seen the blood pressure drop).

bkmartin 11y ago

How do you know if IF itself made any difference? You've got too many moving parts to pin it down exactly. There is tons of evidence that cutting junk food, plus rowing would possibly do the same thing without IF. Have you tried to add a small wholesome breakfast to test for any changes to try and pin down a difference for IF?