What is the saying? All diets work. A diet cuts calories in one way or another. It’s about finding the diet that works for you and your lifestyle.
Exactly. Very hard to work around calorie in vs out. How you restrict calories (time, per meal, food groups) doesn’t really matter all that much. Beyond calories nutrient and macro balance will be inportant. Recent research is showing the recommended total protein intake for most people should probably higher. The body has a limit for processing protein and the updated research is showing that the total daily amount required might not be viable within an IF eating window.
It’s asking if, in an intermittent fasting scheme where participants aren’t counting calories and therefore not guaranteed to be cutting them, would they put themselves in caloric deficit? Additionally, how would that compare to participants counting calories? No more, no less.
“All diets work” They were proving/providing evidence that IF is indeed a “diet” as you’ve used the term.
This is good to see in a study. Personal experience was that intermittent fasting was easier on hunger but harder to make work in a family or with other social settings.
If you’re solo I think it’s easier to do intermittent fasting as you can sort of adopt that timetable rather than adopting a habit of detailing calorie counts at meals and all day. Seems more sustainable.
I’d be interested to learn how this fits in with the Hungry Brain (cool book with many stories of interesting studies) idea and research about how taste creates learning/reinforcement that makes avoiding overeating very hard. That idea basically says that we’re fat because we overeat and we overeat because our engineered-to-be-delicious-and-irresistible foods are too much for our brains to handle responsibly. What is it about fasting reduces the desire for food quantity or type?
harder to make work in a family
My wife tried keto and that was even worse. Had to cook essentially different meals for her than everyone else. It’s hard to remove most carbs from most meals we normally eat. So intermittent fasting actually worked out better for us.
Personal experience was that intermittent fasting was easier on hunger but harder to make work in a family or with other social settings.
Agreed. It’s both hard to schedule social meals into a fasting schedule, and also difficult to explain.
Some people get really concerned at the idea that one might skip meals, and view it as disordered eating.
