Anyone have success w intermittent fasting and low carbing?

Weight loss = calorie deficit.
IF or Low carb won't change anything since its about calories consumed vs calories burned. Meal timing is irrelevant.

A good program with a balance of Weights and cardio (the latter being a personal choice) along with a calorie deficit will result in weight loss.

To lose weight you need a deficit.
To gain muscle you need a surplus.

When cutting you want to eat enough protein to maintain your muscle mass. As you slim down the muscles start to show but you are most likely not gaining any additional muscles since you are eating at a deficit.

4.7 pounds down in 2 weeks. Open Diary, check it out.

I do ADF which isn't much different from IF.

You have to keep in mind that meal timing doesn't matter as far as weight loss goes, but it can keep you on track if there is something psychologically holding you back. ADF works for me because the more I think about food and plan out my meals daily, the more I want to overeat. With ADF, I can forget about food every other day and just not deal with it.

I don't do low carb though. I love carbs and they love me. A low carb diet will make you lose water weight the first week, but it's not going to allow you to eat as much protein and fat as you want. You'll still gain weight if you go over on calories.

I cycle on and off of IF and it works great to stay under calorie limits.....pick the 8 hours of the day you are the hungriest and eat all your calories during that time. Even when I don't stay strict on IF, I do tend to eat most of my calories in an 8 hour period as a general rule....try it out and see how it works- I stay pretty strict with it during the weekdays and then not so much on the weekends. It's also nice to change things up and challenge yourself to keep it interesting....easier to stick to a diet when you aren't bored.

I did IF following the Eades (Protein Power) for several months, and a longer fasting window using some of Bragg's fasting routines. I was low carb as well and it has worked well while maintaining the fast window and low carb. Carbier food create triggers, especially when severely limiting them. I can see results quickly but it is hard to maintain in a mixed group when others are partaking of treats you used to have.. If you can maintain the low carb, IF it is a definite weight loss tool.

Coming off of it the body reacts the way it was designed to and begins rebuilding the storage (fat) very quickly. If you can maintain it go for it,

Doing both might be too much.

The more difficult and restrictive you make things the more likely you are to quit.

I do the ADF and it works fine. I dont worry about carbs during the up days, just the calories and it has worked very well. I Feel if I also did the low carb it may be too inconvenient.

I wish I could get everyone to understand that there are three laws to thermodynamics.
And that calories deficit does not work for everyone. If you are 50 lbs overweight, and that is just a loose gauge, there is a good change a calorie deficit will not work. Period.

Nerd Fitness (coined for people who program or sit a lot of the day in a chair) has a great read on IF

Also carb backloading principles where you are likely to store carbs if you eat them before 3pm.

And that if you work out hard, having something ridiculously sugary after a hard workout before bed to replenish the work you've done and trigger muscles to grow, causes your fat to ignite from your body rather than get stored. The science, however boring a read is there.
This must be resistance training.
These things are the only thing that has worked for me. I had 100 lbs to lose depending on where my "ideal weight" lands.
Some places say 180 some say 200. I am a very tall, curvy female.

Anyway, you must try these things if you are having trouble losing weight.
http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2013/08/06/a-beginners-guide-to-intermittent-fasting/

This is a great workout that uses every major body part, get through it 4 times and you are on your way.
http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2009/12/09/beginner-body-weight-workout-burn-fat-build-muscle/

I wish I could get everyone to understand that there are three laws to thermodynamics.
And that calories deficit does not work for everyone. If you are 50 lbs overweight, and that is just a loose gauge, there is a good change a calorie deficit will not work. Period.

Nerd Fitness (coined for people who program or sit a lot of the day in a chair) has a great read on IF

Also carb backloading principles where you are likely to store carbs if you eat them before 3pm.

And that if you work out hard, having something ridiculously sugary after a hard workout before bed to replenish the work you've done and trigger muscles to grow, causes your fat to ignite from your body rather than get stored. The science, however boring a read is there.
This must be resistance training.
These things are the only thing that has worked for me. I had 100 lbs to lose depending on where my "ideal weight" lands.
Some places say 180 some say 200. I am a very tall, curvy female.

What you are reading is junk from someone who wants to sell you something. The guy has a degree in economics. He has probably never taken a science class beyond the general education requirements. What is written on that site is not "science." It is filth that is designed to convince people to hand him their money.

What often happens is people will read something on a news website which has incorrectly interpreted results from a scientific study. People read that and start spreading it around as if it's fact. General news sites are an awful place to learn about the latest research because the writers don't have the background to understand what they're trying to report, and they always sensationalize to get more viewers/readers. How many times have you heard that a new hiv or cancer cure has been found? Many. Do you know why? Because those writers see that a drug company is developing a drug which hasn't made it to clinical trials yet. Even if is in clinical trials, it will likely not succeed. What they don't tell you is that phase 1 of clinical trials is to test the safety of the drug. Phase 2 tests the efficacy. Phase 3 confirms the results from phase 1 and phase 2. The odds of success of a drug in phase 1 of clinical trials is only 25%. It would still need to go through phase 2, phase 3, and FDA approval. Less than 10% of drugs that even make it to clinical trials goes to market. And yet these reporters are writing sensationalist articles about drugs that are still being developed, of which a fraction of a percent will ever make it to your drug store. The lesson here is that you need to learn which sources are best. Someone trying to sell you something? Probably not a good source. Someone not educated in the field? Probably not a good source.

Another, more relevant example of this is the myth that people gain weight if they eat after a certain time. It's not true at all. What is true is that some people tend to eat a lot of high calorie foods at night while watching primetime tv. They have their ice cream, buttery popcorn, nachos, potato chips, and other calorie dense foods. If you tell them that they can't eat after 6 or some other time before primetime tv comes on, they will likely lose weight. That doesn't mean that eating at night makes you gain weight. Alternatively, we could tell people that they can't eat while watching tv. Studies have shown that people who eat while watching tv tend to eat more. Does that mean that eating while watching tv makes your body store more fat? Absolutely not.