When does weight loss start with intermittent fasting?
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Anonymous
| I've been on a 16-8 intermittent fasting scheduled for about 2 weeks with no weight loss. When did your weight loss start with IF? |
Anonymous
| What is your calorie deficit? |
Anonymous
| Never. I’ve had to combine it with calorie counting. |
Anonymous
| I’ve been doing it for 6 weeks and have lost very little but I was only about 5lbs overweight. Perhaps it works best on very overweight people? |
Anonymous
| Never? It starts with reduced calorie intake. |
Anonymous
| The purpose of IF is to reduce the caloric intake. You eat healthy lower calories within the open window. You can do this 24 hours a day or by establishing an IF routine to ensure you are negative calories. If you eat your normal calorie intake nothing will happen. |
Anonymous
same |
Anonymous
| For me, also never. I was so hungry it did not reduce calorie consumption. I have much better luck with just lowering sugar consumption. |
Anonymous
| I think the problem for me is that I never really ate much at breakfast anyway and rarely snack. So not eating between 6pm and midday the next day is only skipping breakfast. Everything I read seems to imply that it is more than just calorie restriction but I guess in the end, that is all it is. |
Anonymous
| For me it started immediately but it was very slow. 1-3 pounds a month. Which seems lame but two years later I’m down almost 50 pounds! Never seems to go at any other pace, but I don’t think about what I eat much. I also have pcos so for me the fasting itself has likely cured my insulin resistance. |
Anonymous
+1. But IF helps me stay within my calories for the day. It also helps me to maintain when I want to maintain with less effort. |
Anonymous
| Whenever you get into a caloric deficit. Cramming 3000 calories into an 8 hour window be “intermittent fasting” is not going to make you lose weight. Limit your calories to be in a deficit and the window is going to help regulate your hormones. That’s all. |
Anonymous
Yep! |
Anonymous
| I only gained weight after 3 months. Switched to keto and lost weight. Now I count calories, it’s the only way. IF can work for some people, but not for others. But I’d try at least 60 days. |
Anonymous
| IF only works if you also change your diet. Start tracking your food intake. |