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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not willing to starve myself via IF — I eat a healthy diet and stay a normal weight by making sure to incorporate weight training and cardio. [/quote]

Good for you.  The problem is, that I am overweight (lightly obese) and I need to actually create a calorie deficit in order to lose weight.  That means I need to remain in a state of constant under eating until I reach my goal weight.  I have extra pounds on my body right now so I've got to exercise appropriately.  Running, jumping around, squats, etc are terrible exercises for heavy people and those exercises are a great way to wind up with joint problems down the road.  Want to blow a knee?  Do burpees every day for 3 months straight - you'll be out walking one day and SNAP....

I am taking off the weight with diet first.  I have started to incorporate some fairly light exercise into my diet to maintain healthy blood glucose levels (I'm monitoring).  The more I stay in the healthy blood glucose range, as opposed to pre-diabetic range, the less likely I am to overeat. Intermittent fasting helps me to do just that. I've lost close to 40 pounds in a little over 4 months which I am thrilled with.

I went on starvation diets when I was much younger where I exercised and ate very low calorie or not at all for a stretch and took weight off fast - maybe I ate nothing more than a can of tuna every day for several weeks and jogged 3 miles every day.  That isn't the same thing as intermittent fasting where I concentrate on getting high quality nutrients into my meal window.[/quote]

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