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Anonymous wrote:You won't lose weight if you still cram your normal amount of calories into your eating window. Weight loss always is and always will be nothing more than expending more calories than you take in and being in a deficit. If you won't be limiting your calories by eating this way, it's not going to do anything for you. .

Yes and no. Calories burned is actually a function of calories eaten. This complex function makes calorie counting hard. Also calories burned is a function of hormonal and metabolic health.

If you eat more than your body burns, you gain. If you eat less, you lose. It's not that hard.

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who follow IF, what do you think or have you read The Obesity Code?

I have read both the Obesity Code and the Diabetes Code, and they make sense to me. I do the 16/8 pattern of eating with a weekly 24-hour fast. The weight is slowly coming off and my HA1c readings are getting better. I don't think I'd want to do the longer fasts that Dr. Fung espouses, though.

For those of you who follow IF, what do you think or have you read The Obesity Code?

I totally agree with you pp. I am sick of being overweight and just want the weight off. When I started looking into Keto something about that diet just "clicked" for me. I saw the kind of meals that people were eating and how they were portioning protein and it was like a light bulb went off.

Then I looked into IF and it was like another light bulb went off. Skipping breakfast is not a hard sacrifice for me - at all. 16/8 is natural for me. Having one 36 hour fast a week is not that big of deal when I see the progress I'm making.

I can see a huge difference. It's nice to go into my closet and find a pair of jeans or a top that only a couple of months ago was too small.

I even cheat on the weekends! How great is that?

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Anonymous wrote:For me is only eating lunch exactly at noon and dinner at 6pm and fasting (only water) two times per week. Usually Tuesday and Thursday.
20 pounds in two months.

You fast completely 2 days a week? Are those 24 hour fasts?

Yep, 24 hour fast. I take coffe,te and water with lemon as need it. As for the "unsustainable" coment ... I being overweight for the last 20 years and I am feedup. To me this is now or never and I will do what ever it take to loose the pounds. I discoverd that its a mind game agaisnt yourself and I expected to win

^When I go into maintenance mode there will be no need to eat at a caloric deficit. I won't have to sustain "dieting mode" forever.

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Anonymous wrote:For me is only eating lunch exactly at noon and dinner at 6pm and fasting (only water) two times per week. Usually Tuesday and Thursday.
20 pounds in two months.

This is totally unsustainable.

If pp is fasting to lose weight why would it need to be sustainable? Maybe pp can just use 16/8 7 days a week to maintain.

I do a 36 hour fast weekly because it helps to speed my weight loss along. The other days I do 16/8 (sometimes 18/6) because I find it to be a very sustainable and natural eating pattern for me.

Anonymous wrote:For me is only eating lunch exactly at noon and dinner at 6pm and fasting (only water) two times per week. Usually Tuesday and Thursday.
20 pounds in two months.

This is totally unsustainable.

Anonymous wrote:For me is only eating lunch exactly at noon and dinner at 6pm and fasting (only water) two times per week. Usually Tuesday and Thursday.
20 pounds in two months.

You fast completely 2 days a week? Are those 24 hour fasts?

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Anonymous wrote:I lost about 20 lbs over the course of a year, but I also limited simple carbs. For me, that was critical as far as eliminating cravings and allowing me to actually stick to the fasting window.

PP here, I meant to say processed carbs, not simple carbs. I still ate plenty of whole fruit and even vegetables, including some starchy vegetables, but I avoided pasta & bread.

Sounds reasonable. Potatoes are good veggies! But bread and pasta ... not as useful.

Anonymous wrote:I lost about 20 lbs over the course of a year, but I also limited simple carbs. For me, that was critical as far as eliminating cravings and allowing me to actually stick to the fasting window.

PP here, I meant to say processed carbs, not simple carbs. I still ate plenty of whole fruit and even vegetables, including some starchy vegetables, but I avoided pasta & bread.

I lost about 20 lbs over the course of a year, but I also limited simple carbs. For me, that was critical as far as eliminating cravings and allowing me to actually stick to the fasting window.

For me is only eating lunch exactly at noon and dinner at 6pm and fasting (only water) two times per week. Usually Tuesday and Thursday.
20 pounds in two months.

I've been doing it for 2 weeks (fast from 7pm to noon) and have lost 3 lbs. It's been easy for me except for the 1st few days when I was pretty hungry during the morning. I still have coffee with a splash of milk in the morning.

DH has. 30 lbs.