Intermittent Fasting, What's your take on it?

It seems to curb my appetite and give me energy. Ironically, because I do a combo of 5:2 (with usually no food at all on fast days) and one meal a day on most days, I'm a high carb vegan who spends most of her time in ketosis. I think that helps with the energy and appetite, at least in my case, since I was in and out of low carb for two years before this and so I'm very keto adapted.

do you mean low carb?

also, how do you manage low carb veganism? serious question, that must be tough

Nope I'm high carb vegan. Yet I I check regularly and I am, according to ketostix, in ketosis quite often. Weird, huh? Only thing I can attribute it to is my eating schedule and being keto adapted enough to move easily and quickly to producing ketones.

It seems to curb my appetite and give me energy. Ironically, because I do a combo of 5:2 (with usually no food at all on fast days) and one meal a day on most days, I'm a high carb vegan who spends most of her time in ketosis. I think that helps with the energy and appetite, at least in my case, since I was in and out of low carb for two years before this and so I'm very keto adapted.

do you mean low carb?

also, how do you manage low carb veganism? serious question, that must be tough

Nope I'm high carb vegan. Yet I I check regularly and I am, according to ketostix, in ketosis quite often. Weird, huh? Only thing I can attribute it to is my eating schedule and being keto adapted enough to move easily and quickly to producing ketones.

very weird.

i just looked into it a bit though, could be caused by high amounts of exercise or fasting, basically any situation where glycogen stored are depleted, so i guess if you do 5:2 its not totally uncommon especially if you're an active person

It seems to curb my appetite and give me energy. Ironically, because I do a combo of 5:2 (with usually no food at all on fast days) and one meal a day on most days, I'm a high carb vegan who spends most of her time in ketosis. I think that helps with the energy and appetite, at least in my case, since I was in and out of low carb for two years before this and so I'm very keto adapted.

do you mean low carb?

also, how do you manage low carb veganism? serious question, that must be tough

Nope I'm high carb vegan. Yet I I check regularly and I am, according to ketostix, in ketosis quite often. Weird, huh? Only thing I can attribute it to is my eating schedule and being keto adapted enough to move easily and quickly to producing ketones.

very weird.

i just looked into it a bit though, could be caused by high amounts of exercise or fasting, basically any situation where glycogen stored are depleted, so i guess if you do 5:2 its not totally uncommon especially if you're an active person

yeah from what i've read and experience ( and I used to use the test sticks) is something about unless you are testing blood - the urine sticks only measure the presence of ketones in the urine so "The liver will make ketones from body fat, the fat you EAT, and from alcohol --- the ketone strips have no way of distinguishing the source of the ketones. So, if you test every day after dinner, and dinner usually contains a lot of fat, then you may very well test for large amounts of ketones all the time. However this does not indicate that any BODY fat was burned."

From experience alcohol will also cause the test strips to be dark purple for me and dehydration as well - days I don't drink as much water. Or if I test right after I have some fatty foods or exercise

or something like that - I still like them and use them sometimes for fun though

Every time you sleep it's 'said' that you are in a mild state of ketosis by the time you wake up. That morning spike of insulin that wakes you is automatic from our bodies. By doing IF you are extending that window of ketosis longer (after that initial morning spike). This is supposed to keep your blood sugar spikes non-existant for those hours and keep you in a fat burning state, instead of a sugar burning state. IF ups certain chemical pathways in the body that are thought to be beneficial as well (growth hormone and neurotropic factors).

http://www.leangains.com/2010/10/top-ten-fasting-myths-debunked.html
http://www.gnolls.org/3615/intermittent-fasting-matters-sometimes-there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-calorie-to-your-body-part-viii/

I do 5:2 or 4:3 depending on how I'm feeling. I've found it to be incredibly easy -- I didn't try it for a long time because I was afraid it would be too hard. I was SHOCKED by how manageable I found it.

I specifically looked into because of the benefits seen in fasting for insulin sensitivity (I'm insulin resistant so this was a BIG advantage) and IGF-2 shifts (having to do with cellular repair).

So, now I have a much easier (for me) way of creating my weekly calorie deficit and get the added benefits of increased insulin sensitivity and IGF-2 shifts. I've found it easier and easier over time and as someone else pointed out, I find myself less hungry on my TDEE days.

So far, I've found greater results overall than just with my previous daily deficits. So there appears to be some additional advantage for weight loss eating like this. I can't explain why that is, but it is what I'm seeing for myself thus far. It's actually what I tried to bust through a 6 week plateau from just daily calorie restriction.

I've been doing the 16:2 since I started my weight loss on March 1 without even realizing I was doing it. For me, the more time I spend around food, the more likely I am to over-eat, so I try to limit myself to two large meals a day. Breakfast was (still is) my favorite meal of the day. I love breakfast. So, to account for this, I eat an egg sandwich every day between 11-noon. Satisfies my need for breakfast food and is high in protein/filling. I then eat a snack (small sandwich or protein bar) when I get to work at 2 and eat my dinner at 7. Occasionally I'll snack a little after work, but it's usually just those two meals and one snack. Been at this a little over 4 months and have lost 72 pounds--I'd say it's working for me

Definitely works for me. Since I switched to (well I'd say 90%) paleo and stopped counting calories in early may I've lost an average of 0.5lbs a day and I don't even work out exceptionally hard. I feel much stronger and can recently do multiple pullups/chinups in a row. I eat high fat and very rarely get hungry in the morning because of it. I follow the 16:8 diet and break the fast with a small lunch with salad/protein. The hardest part is making sure I get all my nutrients at dinner since I have to eat quite big. I think the fasting has definitely helped accelerated my weight loss, forcing my body to feed off my ample belly fat. I'll probably eat a small breakfast when I'm within normal weight range however.
Again the hardest part is adjusting your calories and eating a big enough dinner since you definitely don't want to go under 1300 calories or so and that's surprisingly easy for me since I eat a high fat diet.