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Again, there are numerous physiological responses that take place and are necessarily paramount for the burning of fat and the sparing of other bodily tissues that occur when fasting. It isn't the reduction of calories that spurs this adaptive response either.
Okay, but if you eat 3,000 calories in one sitting you will use a small portion that is immediately needed and store the rest as fat. Then over the next 23 hours you'll burn some of the fat you just stored, except those extra calories that went above your energy needs. All of the responses you are thinking of happen to people who eat 2, 3, or even 6 meals per day. Your BMR does increase slightly at the 16 hour mark, but not enough to negate the extra 500 calories day after day.7 -
And if you are going to start blaming insulin you need to stop and look into ALL the things insulin does in the body.7
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Well, if you permit me some leeway here and forgo lengthy discourse on the physiological responses, the extra calories could be expended or retained. It depends on other factors not addressed yet. Really, check out DR Jason fung. He talks about all of this at length with ample scientific support0
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I would be happy to do so friend.0
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Where shall we begin.0
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Well, if you permit me some leeway here and forgo lengthy discourse on the physiological responses, the extra calories could be expended or retained. It depends on other factors not addressed yet. Really, check out DR Jason fung. He talks about all of this at length with ample scientific support
I know who he is and I have read his work. There's a bunch of gaps in there with no science in which he makes logic leaps, just like the one you posted about where the extra calories go. Extra calories don't just disappear, they're stored as fat. There are other claims he makes as to health benefits of fasting that are also proven health benefits of weight loss.
Eating one meal per day or eating every other day makes it very difficult for the majority of people to eat beyond their total daily energy needs. I think it's great when people find a way that makes it easy for them to stay within their calorie needs, whether it is one meal or eating every couple of hours. The benefits of fasting, especially as stated by Jason Fung, are overreaching.6 -
And there are still so many other physiological mechanisms not in play in that scenario as well.0
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And there are still so many other physiological mechanisms not in play in that scenario as well.
Such as what? You keep throwing out the vague term of physiological mechanisms. What specifically does the body do during the fasted state that would negate overeating by hundreds of calories?3 -
You are actually quite wrong about that too.0
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Really? Why?
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I repeat, check out DR Jason Fung. He addresses all of these issues at length and then some. Cheers0
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I repeat, check out DR Jason Fung. He addresses all of these issues at length and then some. Cheers
I have told you that I read his book and I've read many of his articles (as well as some of his horrible fat shaming comments posted on social media). I also know what his profession is other than promoting fasting.
Here's the thing, when it comes to learning about topics it only serves us to read contradicting studies to get a full view of the topic. I was hugely into a few very specific things when I started losing weight. I KNEW they were the way because I had studied them. Then I was shown information that contradicted what I knew. I kept reading. I still read all about methods I don't use and I read studies that show my methods aren't necessarily the best.
You know what matters the most in all of this? Energy balance and adherence.12 -
So what are you saying?0
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I repeat, check out DR Jason Fung. He addresses all of these issues at length and then some. Cheers
I have told you that I read his book and I've read many of his articles (as well as some of his horrible fat shaming comments posted on social media). I also know what his profession is other than promoting fasting.
Here's the thing, when it comes to learning about topics it only serves us to read contradicting studies to get a full view of the topic. I was hugely into a few very specific things when I started losing weight. I KNEW they were the way because I had studied them. Then I was shown information that contradicted what I knew. I kept reading. I still read all about methods I don't use and I read studies that show my methods aren't necessarily the best.
You know what matters the most in all of this? Energy balance and adherence.
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And there are still so many other physiological mechanisms not in play in that scenario as well.
Such as what? You keep throwing out the vague term of physiological mechanisms. What specifically does the body do during the fasted state that would negate overeating by hundreds of calories?
I'm also going to quote this question because you keep bringing it up and it's time for you to provide specific examples. You made the claim that overeating doesn't matter if you fast, you back it up. Telling me to research it says you really don't understand the claim or physiology.3 -
What are you saying? He is a repugnant person? I don't know him. His methods, he didn't invent fasting. Are you suggesting that numerous independent study's from are balderdash? I'm confused as to you meaning. Clarify please.I repeat, check out DR Jason Fung. He addresses all of these issues at length and then some. Cheers
I have told you that I read his book and I've read many of his articles (as well as some of his horrible fat shaming comments posted on social media). I also know what his profession is other than promoting fasting.
Here's the thing, when it comes to learning about topics it only serves us to read contradicting studies to get a full view of the topic. I was hugely into a few very specific things when I started losing weight. I KNEW they were the way because I had studied them. Then I was shown information that contradicted what I knew. I kept reading. I still read all about methods I don't use and I read studies that show my methods aren't necessarily the best.
You know what matters the most in all of this? Energy balance and adherence.
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