How fasting or changing the amount of food that you eat, tampers with your metabolism?
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The tldr is that it doesn’t. Metabolism changes and such is largely pseudoscience designed to sell fad diets. Intermittent fasting, alongside something like keto for example, is a tool available to you if you would like to change how you diet.
Some people, like myself, binge regardless of how hungry we actually are, or how much we have eaten. I was binging 2-3 times a day despite having no want for food. Once I started IF, I lost weight simply because I was eating a third of what I had been. From there I was able to actually focus on a diet and work on what I needed to get healthy, not just not-fat. I’ve lost over 100 pounds and have kept it off for a few years now.
Things like keto are the same way. Avoiding carbs helps some people control portions and their body reacts in a way that they feel better or less hungry or more energetic or whatever. It doesn’t mean that eating steak for every meal is going to work for everyone.
Most “diets” are actually “dieting tools” and should be experimented with if you are interested in order to determine what works best for you. Remember, calories in < calories out means weight loss, however there are different ways of going about it that make it easier or harder depending on who you are.
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