Does the diet have any impact on how fast your metabolism is working or does it not at all change or interfere with the total calories in and total calories out science of burning fat and losing weight?
Is intermittent fasting only based on psychological management of your eating habits?
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Stan Efferding covered this on Modern Wisdom today if you’re interested. This is the link to the exact time stamp. Basically, it’s one of three methods to help you reduce calories. Reduce the eating window, cut out one macronutrient group, or simply count calories. I did it for years. It’s nothing magical bit it works better for some people than trying to count cals or forego certain food groups.
When you eat your body releases insulin.
Insulin allows you to store calories as fat while preventing you from using fat as energy.
Eating once a day allows your body the most time to use your fat stores as energy while insulin levels are very low.
More than just dieting. IF also triggers autophaging as done by a japanese studies. If you go 16 hrs without calorie intake your body will start actively seek out inefficient cells in your body to break down and eat. These inefficient cells tends to have possibility of becoming cancer cells down the road. So it is important to regularly purge inefficient cells.
Aside from what the top answer mentioned, less time to eat generally translates to eating less food overall
For an in depth explanation check out Dr Andrew Huberman. He is a professor at Stanford and started a podcast to go over a variety of health topics. Andy Galpin is another great source specifically for exercise
> Is intermittent fasting only based on psychological management of your eating habits?
This is the case for me, and I wouldn’t discount that aspect of it. It’s helped me cut down on my snacking, and it makes it so that when I do eat, I finally feel full for good because I just ate a big-ass meal.
All these are great responses, but I would like to add a big factor. A silent but deadly way to gain calories is through snacking.
Who doesn’t love to open a bag of cookies at midnight, while your studying? People don’t realize how easy it is to gain soooooo many calories just through snacking.
When on an intermittent fasting plan, you’re more aware of this and when you follow the plan, you cut down on snacking, which is worth so many more calories than you might expect
I don’t know that there’s any solid evidence that intermittent fasting “works,” unless you define exactly what you mean by “works.”
It apparently doesn’t do much for sustained weight loss (unless combined with other weight loss approaches), and I doubt there’s been any meaningful research about its effect on, say, happiness or longevity.
It mostly doesn’t.
The fact someone is willing to stick to something is what leads to weight loss.
Eating the same food as normal breakfast, lunch and dinner, would lead to the same end weight.
[everything you wanted to know about diets, a royal institute lecture by iirc Cambridge Professor](https://youtu.be/3WT9EpBdbLM?si=XTmIbqpyh4rOblr3)
Physiologically, I believe the science is that you produce less insulin, so you feel less hungry. Psychologically, because you feel less hungry, you eat less, which causes weight loss. I’ve done One Meal A Day dieting a few times, and it works for me. I can’t eat more than around 1500 calories at a time, so if that’s all I eat in a day, I lose roughly a pound a week. I can say that when I first started the diet, it was difficult because I felt hungry around my usual meal times. But as I kept going, I found that I just wasn’t hungry at breakfast or dinner time anymore, and would only be hungry around lunch time, when my one meal was. I usually eat at around 2pm.
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