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Nice! Very well explained! Who knows, maybe the dozen other times I’ve restricted calories for extended periods of time and lost very little were just unlucky, and this time with IF is just a happy accident? 13th time’s the charm! Regardless, the weight is coming off and my energy levels are steady, so I guess I’ll just…

Disclaimer: I’m just a guy that read stuff on the interwebs. (For comment section legal reasons I must include that information.) Thank you for posting! I checked out all your links! I’ve read the Myolean article that talks about a blog post that Fung made. AS I UNDERSTAND IT: they largely agree with him, except for some…

Maybe :)

Disclaimer: I’m just a guy that read stuff on the interwebs. (For comment section legal reasons I must include that information.) AS I UNDERSTAND IT: Yes! Absolutely it’s the western diet! In fact, I’m reasonably sure that there are studies out there that I don’t feel like Google searching for that show an increase in…

I absolutely love this response. 100%. There are aspects that I don’t agree with, but that’s ok lol Oddly enough, I didn’t actually come on here today to sing IF’s praises. I just saw that someone said it was simply a way to restrict calories, so I mentioned that AS I UNDERSTAND IT: there’s more to it than that. But I…

Disclaimer: I’m just a guy that read stuff on the interwebs. (For comment section legal reasons I must include that information.) AS I UNDERSTAND IT: Yes, they fall after you eat. That being said, it can take anywhere from 6 to 12 hours (depending on what and how much you ate) for them to fall back to baseline. Generally…

Disclaimer: I’m just a guy that read stuff on the interwebs. (For comment section legal reasons I must include that information.) AS I UNDERSTAND IT: excess food energy is stored as fat. Insulin prevents the breakdown of fat for energy. Therefore if insulin levels are raised, the energy that has been stored as fat is…

To be fair, I’m stating things as I understand them. So far you’ve said that many professionals would disagree with me, which is fine, except that you haven’t said what they’d disagree with. Everything? I’ve seen lots of studies talk about energy balance without going any deeper, but (and this just an example) if calories…

That high levels over prolonged periods of time create resistance? Isn’t that how most things work in the body? Alcohol, drugs, sustained loud noises, etc.?

I have absolutely ZERO medical training, and I wholeheartedly apologize if me sharing what I’ve learned has led you (or anyone else) to think otherwise. I’m not any sort of an expert in anything. I first got interested in learning more about IF when I found Dr. Jason Fung on YouTube. Since that day I’ve just been doing a…

To be fair, again, calories in versus calories out DOES MATTER. You absolutely CAN “out-eat” an IF protocol by consuming enough calories to not only re-fill your short term storage, but also have enough left over after that to re-fill your long term storage that you burned while fasting, and then have even more left over…

1.) see my previous response. 2.) insulin is not an appetite hormone (although ghrelin is). It’s a storage hormone, and there’s nothing inherently WRONG with it. Without it, humans wouldn’t have made it this far. But, high levels of it for prolonged periods of time can make our cells resistant to its effects, so our body…

Cute meme. Calories in versus calories out (or “energy balance”) is based entirely on a one compartment theory. That all the calories we eat go into one compartment, and that when we expend energy, we pull it out of that same compartment. The only problem with that theory, is that it’s wrong. Calories go in and get sent to…

Is that to say that a calorie is just a calorie? That 100 calories of candy is the same as 100 calories of broccoli, as far as your simple subtraction is concerned? Science disagrees.

Without getting too complicated: Eating (which for this conversation will be shorthand for “putting something in your mouth that isn’t water/black coffee/tea”) raises insulin up from your personal baseline. When insulin is up, its job is to store energy. First it refills your glucose (short term storage), and whatever is…

I think so too! Here’s a different one where the eating was more controlled. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2645638/

I’m reasonably sure that the last two sentences say that it’s possible that there could have been differences, and not that calories were not matched. But you’re right, it’s definitely a limitation of that particular study and more studies need to be (and are being!) done. That being said, assuming that the normal diet…

First, congratulations!! Second, you’ve obviously found a pattern of eating/not-eating, combined with ‘what’ you’re eating, that has successfully kept your cells insulin sensitive! That’s fantastic! For anyone struggling to achieve what you have, I would recommend IF. It’s a very straightforward way to reach the same goal.

I guess I should point out that Calorie Reduction is, in fact, a part of a successful IF regimen. What I’m arguing, is that the idea of Calorie Reduction As Primary... is exactly what its acronym spells out. Simply reducing calories in (and/or increasing calories out) only works in the short term. We don’t have a weight…

If intermittent fasting works for fat loss solely because it restricts calories, can you please explain to me the results of this study that matched calories between the two groups? I must be missing something... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5064803/

Ignoring the animal studies (because you said you wanted human ones), and any and all “modified fasting” scenarios (because that’s not what we’re talking about here), it seems like the study you provided is fairly clear on its opinion of IF: “It appears that almost any intermittent fasting regimen can result in some weight…

Here are two to get you started, let me know if you want more. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5064803/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2645638/

I’ve been doing IF (specifically One Meal A Day) for just shy of 4 months now. I’ve lost a little over 50 pounds so far, although I still have plenty to go. There is a TON of science behind why IF is so much more than simply a tool to help easily maintain a calorie deficit, although it definitely does that too. It’s all…