Starving to Health: Fasting-Mimicking Diet

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by tosh • 6 years ago

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daneel_w2• 6 years ago

I've reduced my average weight from 75 kg to 65 kg by daily intermittent fasting: I eat the same things as always, and I consume the same amount kcal, but I restrict my intake to a window of 6-8 hours instead of eating throughout the full 16 hours I'm awake. I don't eat until lunch, and I make sure I have had my last meal for the day no later than 8 in the evening.

nradov• 6 years ago

I am highly skeptical of claims that people have lost significant weight by changing when they eat and not what or how much they eat. Most people significantly underestimate how much they consume and often eat little snacks at various times without even consciously remembering it. If someone had followed you around before you started intermittent fasting and recorded everything you put in your mouth I suspect you would find that you were eating more than you thought.

daneel_w2• 6 years ago

I'm a former die-hard calorie counter.

jolmg• 6 years ago

I do wonder if the body does not always absorb 100% of the food it receives. It might be that the body regulates food absorption such that despite "the same amount kcal" being consumed they're not all absorbed when taken in a single big meal.

I really wouldn't know. I'm just giving my opinion that it doesn't sound that implausible.

stkdump• 6 years ago

Do you have any reason to believe that you can judge it better than people doing it? Or any specific data, reference, etc.? I read that on every thread on the topic so far, usually upvoted to the top, and I wonder where this comes from.

tedmiston• 6 years ago

There is a lot of research supporting how much the when of intermittent fasting matters even when the what and how much are held constant. How the food is distributed over time matters for insulin which affects weight gain / loss.

There is widespread misunderstanding that obesity is caused by caloric imbalance while it is actually caused by hormonal imbalance.

Dr. Jason Fung has written extensively (research, blog posts, books) covering how IF impacts insulin and insulin sensitivity, and how that downstream leads to obesity [and how IF helps reverse obesity]. I highly recommend his books such as The Obesity Code.

https://www.dietdoctor.com/my-single-best-weight-loss-tip

moltar• 6 years ago

A lot of good info here: https://youtu.be/tIuj-oMN-Fk

hprotagonist• 6 years ago

IF is great. Y'ain't getting me to give up my coffee, though. It's got zero calories, anyway!

hedora• 6 years ago

I’ve had good luck with the Hackers Diet (calorie counting) in the past: https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/

When counting calories and exercising, my weight loss was linear in the number of calories I (didn’t) eat, regardless of what they were.

I’m trying intermittent fasting because calorie counting is a pain, and the less mental energy required the better. Hopefully it’ll work out.

BrandoElFollito• 6 years ago

I lost without too much problems 16kg by reading only between noln and 8pm.

And by not eating processed sugar (industrial cakes)

Not sure which one was more important for the loss :)

senectus1• 6 years ago

over the past 7 months I've lost 12kgs.

All I did was to make some lifestyle changes: "IF" between 8pm and 12 pm (basically calorie reduction). I dont add sugar to any drink and I dont drink sugary drinks, this includes fruit juice, 100% or no. I gave myself permission to suck at exercise. As long as I got out at least 5 days a week (preferably in the morning before work) then I would class this as mission accomplished. What ended up happening was it became a habit, so i didn't have to really think about it or argue with myself about it. I also got a lot better at it. so instead of a 20 min bike ride I was going for an hour or more. I didn't feel like I had to do better I just ended up doing better.

The outcome so far has been great, also I find that if bad weather keeps me from going out and getting exercise I start getting cranky.. i now need it to be happy its a sort of self re-enforcing feedback habit.

Habits are hard to break, so I actively developed good habits... I think this is basically the crux of it. no special and difficult to maintain rules or eating patterns. just eat less in general and do it in a way that is easy to maintain (no eating after dinner, dont eat breakfast, train my palette to prefer non-sweet drinks).

somada141• 6 years ago

I’m ashamed to say that I’ve tried every diet under the sun, including the 16-8 IF and I was failing miserably at it. It’s by no means healthy but turns out I’ve always been an all-or-nothing type (complete lack of discipline) so I’ve been trying the 5-2 diet for the past couple months and I’m finally seeing results. It allows you to eat up to 125% of your daily calories on eating days and up to 25% on the 2 non-eating days. You can ramp it up by eating absolutely nothing on non-eating days an even alternating between eating and non-eating every other day which I’ve had some luck with. For me personally the advantage was simplicity and the ability to eat the things I tend to eat (within reason) without having to put too much effort into it. On non-eating days I just keep myself occupied with work, activities, etc and after a few times it’s surprisingly easy not to eat.

Starving to Health: Fasting-Mimicking Diet

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