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help with intermittent fasting
kennygang
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I have been doing keto/lc for about 2 weeks and I am very interested in learning about IF and exactly how to do it. My hunger is really disappeared and I feel like this is something I can manage without it being a big deal. I am probably have insulin resistance and from what I read this may really help in my weight loss. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
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I have been doing IF 4 days a week. Its helped tremendously. I could do every day, but I eat when Im bored. Getting your coconut oil, or Mct oil really helps with hunger..but if your in ketosis hunger ahiuldent be a big problem. Lol..you dont get hangry
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so if I last eat at 800 pm and go through the night and have my coffee with hwc and coconut oil around 800 am and don't eat again until say 1-2 pm is that considered IF?0
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so if I last eat at 800 pm and go through the night and have my coffee with hwc and coconut oil around 800 am and don't eat again until say 1-2 pm is that considered IF?
Some people allow the cream in IF and some don't. Personally I do coffee with coconut oil and butter. I did my first IF yesterday. Stopped eating at 9:30 and will continue not eating anthing til my lunch break at 12:30.
Though I'm pretty hungry already. So we shall see.0 -
The idea behind BPC is that consuming only calories from fat doesn't cause an insulin response, and so the benefit of the fast is preserved *in this sense*.
That is the insulin theory of fasting.
But, it is still several hundred calories. And while insulin may not spike, those calories still have to be metabolized.
So there is the calorie theory of fasting, where to preserve all the benefits of fasting, 0 to very few calories are consumed during the fasting period.
We don't have enough good long term human studies yet to really know for certain which is the best.
If BPC helps you maintain your desired caloric deficit, then keep with it and do what works.
If you're interested in maximizing all possible benefits of an extended fasted state, then consider going for 0 calories (or up to 50 is kind of the general rule of thumb) ...
Or, do BPC in the morning most days, and play around with an extended single period of 0 calorie fasting a la Brad Pilon's Eat Stop Eat program or by following Dr. Jason Fung's recommendations.7 -
I find it generally pretty easy to do lean gains style, which is what you've described throughout the week. I really eat no more or less for lunch if I eat breakfast or not. (If I brought it/ordered it whatever I usually finish it) therefore, breakfast just equals more calories. Weekends are much harder with more idle time to wander around and have access to the kitchen.
I generally don't get hungry until 10 or so, so lunch at noon then dinner is around 5-6 (yes I'm old, lol). that's usually it for me. I don't typically snack after dinner.
I used to do more Warrior diet style, one large meal in the evening. I have noticed on the days I skip lunch or push it back I get the heightened focus/alertness/sense of awareness. not sure what to call it. It is an interesting feeling that I may experiment more with. Funny thing is when I tried WD on SAD I never got that feeling.2
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