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[quote=Anonymous]Cream in coffee is fine. Personally I find that coffee, even with milk/cream suppresses my appetite.

Here's the thing with intermittent fasting. You lose weight doing it because you are eating fewer calories throughout the day. By skipping breakfast and the nighttime snacking/wine you reduce calories.  it works, especially the first half of the day because a lot of times you aren't hungry in the morning due to hormones and such.

But there is nothing magical about only eating in the 8 hr or 4 hr window. It is just a tool to control hunger and cut down calories.  If you eat 1500 calories/day over the course of 8 hrs it is the same as eating them over the course of 12 or 14 hours. At the end of the day the calorie deficit you have created is the same. Now you can also gain weight doing IF. If you make up for those missed calories by eating more in your eating window then at the end of they day you have eaten too many calories, are in a calorie surplus and, thus, will gained weight.

Every diet out there is a tool to help control calories and create a calorie deficit. Some work better for people than others, but none of them are magic and there is no "you have to do X to lose weight." The only think you need to lose weight is a calorie deficit. how you get there is up to you. [/quote]

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