How fasting or changing the amount of food that you eat, tampers with your metabolism?
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There is a lot of advertising and pseudoscience jargon out there right now concerning intermittent fasting since this the latest fad diet craze.
The science behind how it changes your metabolism and its effect on weight loss is not firmly well established, and do not let anyone tell you otherwise.
However, I am not saying intermittent fasting is ineffective.
It is like any other diet plan. There are many of them and the effectiveness of every diet plan depends firmly on your own personal behaviors.
The most important thing about picking any diet, is how easily you will be able to stick to it.
Whatever biological, metabolic, body changes or whatever differences between each diet is minuscule compared to your own behavior pattern.
If you find a fasting diet allows you to more control over your appetite and craving and it becomes easy and effective for you to stick to, then by all means do it.
If find another diet is easier for your lifestyle or behaviors or cravings then do that one.
Be honest with yourself and use your own sense and knowledge about body and behavior when dieting rather then trying to pick a diet based on whatever metabolic tricks any particular diets provide.
The body will respond to long spans of reduced food by basically reducing unimportant activity. A lot of this is sub-conscious reduction, (less fidgeting, leaning against a wall instead of standing freely, laying in bed a little longer, etc.). Over time, you might feel a little lazier too, where before you might be excited to do something, but now you’re maybe a little hesitant to do things. You may not even really notice.
I think the main benefit from fasting is that it accustoms your body to be used to burning fuel reserves(that empty stomach growling feeling) so when that happens (pushing off eating for a little while longer) you learn to eat less/need less because the fasting is that hunger that you would otherwise try to quell. Best, method is start going six hours between small meals.
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