I’m totally on board with IF, I do 19/5 daily and a 72 hour fast about once every 3 weeks, but suggesting someone can consume absolutely whatever they want within a certain window and lose weight and feel good is false.
I challenge you tomorrow during your non fasting window to drink a 24 pack case of coca-cola and report back how you feel.
Every time you eat, your insulin spikes a bit, regardless of what you're eating. My guess is the constant insulin spikes, which can have a bad effect on one's health over a long period of time, is what the OP meant.
Are you still in ketosis if you’re under the 50g carb? Can you still eat that piece of bread, pasta or whatever as long as it’s under 50g and be in ketosis? Or will you stop being in ketosis?
The benefit of intermittent fasting is the break from eating is when your body utilizes the food consumed to undergo cellular repair and healing, which it can't do very well if it's busy processing and digesting food. Pick any 16 hr window that works for you. I stop eating at 8 pm and resume at noon the following day. You can cheat a little (keto fat bombs for example), but no protein or carbs so your pancreas can sleep through it. I use a body comp scale and came to the conclusion you can't really burn fat unless you lay off alcohol. Same as sugar. Fructose (hidden in processed foods) and alcohol disable your leptin response; leptin is what your body produces to tell you to take the fork out of your mouth you've eaten enough.
I know a woman in her early 60’s, she’s been doing this way of eating for longer than I’ve known her which is 25 years. Her skin looks awful, wrinkled and droopy. She’s slim, but has NO stamina or endurance when we’re hiking. She’s also become scatterbrained and forgetful.
While this diet can be useful to get the fat off, I wouldn’t call it the fountain of youth for some women.
There’s healthy keto and then dirty keto. Does she also eat a lot of greens and veggies? Maybe she’s deficient in vitamins or maybe the diet isn’t for her ?
Don't think either-or. Intermittent fasting and low-carb (not necessarily full keto) go wonderfully well together. In fact I feel doing both at the same time is actually easier than doing either on its own.
Low carb works because fat and protein are more satisfying so you need less of it, and under ketosis you burn fat reserves instead of storing it which is the most Integral function of insulin as it pertains to weight.
Carbs digest quickly and insulin makes you crave more food. That doesn't make it bad on its own.
Low carb is also not the norm and people have survived just fine and remained in amazing shape despite it. I prefer keto myself, but carb cycling is actually better for weight loss and muscle gain.
Essentially, you don't have full grasp of the story or the biomechanics of the human body. You are someone who threw themselves into low carb and declared it the best because you saw the results you wanted.
When you get down and dirty with how the human body works, you learn that carbs are good when used correctly and in moderate proportion.
Carb cycling once a year won't do anything. Our bodies adapt extremely fast, which is what carb cycling exploits.
When bulking or doing a weight loss regimen, carb cycling is usually done on a 3-4 day cycle. By cycling between high, medium, and low fat/carbs/protein in various controlled proportions, you are constantly tricking your body's mechanics to burn fat while maintaining its health.
Simultaneously, you're allowing your body the supplies it needs to build muscle and repair itself, and your brain the supplies it needs to think clearly and do a good job maintaining its chemical balances.
Also simultaneously, you are preventing your body from entering a stage where it thinks it's starving, which actually makes it harder to lose weight and easier to gain it because it increases your stress and the body clamps down on functions to be more efficient with its energy stores, a very bad combination when losing or maintaining weight.
Incidentally this function is also why eating a strict diet is often bad for weight loss; cycling or just..not caring too much about your caloric intake (within reason) prevents your body from becoming too efficient with calorie burn.
If you ate the same 2K calories every day, you would stop losing weight at a point even if you were well above the weight that 2K would maintain because the body is really good at becoming efficient.
It's one of many reasons, including many outlined in my posts, that the idea that weight loss is just calorie in vs calorie out is just not true and exceedingly outdated. A lot of things factor into our weight and how we lose or keep it and it's useful to learn as many of those factors and their effects as possible, especially if you want to come to a board and essentially lecture people on diets.
And again, I am generally a keto person. I have picked up carbs again for bulking and weight loss right now, but I enjoy the effects I feel (usually) on a low or no carb diet. But I can never discount how important carbs actually are in moderation.
Eat anything you want in a six hour window and nothing outside that window and you will lose weight and feel better.
Yes 100%. I do this too. Usually don't start eating till 6PM.
Yeah I’m sure if you drank a 24 pack within a six hour window everyday you would lose weight and feel great.
Your statement isn’t true at all.
Prove it then.
I’m totally on board with IF, I do 19/5 daily and a 72 hour fast about once every 3 weeks, but suggesting someone can consume absolutely whatever they want within a certain window and lose weight and feel good is false.
I challenge you tomorrow during your non fasting window to drink a 24 pack case of coca-cola and report back how you feel.
you're an idiot
Every time you eat, your insulin spikes a bit, regardless of what you're eating. My guess is the constant insulin spikes, which can have a bad effect on one's health over a long period of time, is what the OP meant.
My whole plan is one sentence and works.
Intermittent fasting is good, but if you do that plus limit carbs to 50g or less per day then your body will learn to burn fat for fuel.
Joints will feel better and inflammation will decrease.
Are you still in ketosis if you’re under the 50g carb? Can you still eat that piece of bread, pasta or whatever as long as it’s under 50g and be in ketosis? Or will you stop being in ketosis?
You’re both right. Keto + intermittent fasting is the fountain of youth.
The benefit of intermittent fasting is the break from eating is when your body utilizes the food consumed to undergo cellular repair and healing, which it can't do very well if it's busy processing and digesting food. Pick any 16 hr window that works for you. I stop eating at 8 pm and resume at noon the following day. You can cheat a little (keto fat bombs for example), but no protein or carbs so your pancreas can sleep through it. I use a body comp scale and came to the conclusion you can't really burn fat unless you lay off alcohol. Same as sugar. Fructose (hidden in processed foods) and alcohol disable your leptin response; leptin is what your body produces to tell you to take the fork out of your mouth you've eaten enough.
I know a woman in her early 60’s, she’s been doing this way of eating for longer than I’ve known her which is 25 years. Her skin looks awful, wrinkled and droopy. She’s slim, but has NO stamina or endurance when we’re hiking. She’s also become scatterbrained and forgetful.
While this diet can be useful to get the fat off, I wouldn’t call it the fountain of youth for some women.
I’ve always wondered why people on keto have funny looking skin. It looks so paper thin and wrinkly. Any idea why that is?
There’s healthy keto and then dirty keto. Does she also eat a lot of greens and veggies? Maybe she’s deficient in vitamins or maybe the diet isn’t for her ?
Fountain of youth != fountain of beauty. If that old ugly broad manages to out live you by 20 years then she might be on to something.
Yep.
Don't think either-or. Intermittent fasting and low-carb (not necessarily full keto) go wonderfully well together. In fact I feel doing both at the same time is actually easier than doing either on its own.
Low carb works because fat and protein are more satisfying so you need less of it, and under ketosis you burn fat reserves instead of storing it which is the most Integral function of insulin as it pertains to weight.
Carbs digest quickly and insulin makes you crave more food. That doesn't make it bad on its own.
Low carb is also not the norm and people have survived just fine and remained in amazing shape despite it. I prefer keto myself, but carb cycling is actually better for weight loss and muscle gain.
Essentially, you don't have full grasp of the story or the biomechanics of the human body. You are someone who threw themselves into low carb and declared it the best because you saw the results you wanted.
When you get down and dirty with how the human body works, you learn that carbs are good when used correctly and in moderate proportion.
Carb cycling once a year won't do anything. Our bodies adapt extremely fast, which is what carb cycling exploits.
When bulking or doing a weight loss regimen, carb cycling is usually done on a 3-4 day cycle. By cycling between high, medium, and low fat/carbs/protein in various controlled proportions, you are constantly tricking your body's mechanics to burn fat while maintaining its health.
Simultaneously, you're allowing your body the supplies it needs to build muscle and repair itself, and your brain the supplies it needs to think clearly and do a good job maintaining its chemical balances.
Also simultaneously, you are preventing your body from entering a stage where it thinks it's starving, which actually makes it harder to lose weight and easier to gain it because it increases your stress and the body clamps down on functions to be more efficient with its energy stores, a very bad combination when losing or maintaining weight.
Incidentally this function is also why eating a strict diet is often bad for weight loss; cycling or just..not caring too much about your caloric intake (within reason) prevents your body from becoming too efficient with calorie burn.
If you ate the same 2K calories every day, you would stop losing weight at a point even if you were well above the weight that 2K would maintain because the body is really good at becoming efficient.
It's one of many reasons, including many outlined in my posts, that the idea that weight loss is just calorie in vs calorie out is just not true and exceedingly outdated. A lot of things factor into our weight and how we lose or keep it and it's useful to learn as many of those factors and their effects as possible, especially if you want to come to a board and essentially lecture people on diets.
And again, I am generally a keto person. I have picked up carbs again for bulking and weight loss right now, but I enjoy the effects I feel (usually) on a low or no carb diet. But I can never discount how important carbs actually are in moderation.