[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

I am sure it's personal, but when I fast 24 hours (once per week), the next two days I look for less food, to the point that I can skip lunch without noticing.

The big deal for me is not eating stuff with flour (starch?) or sugar.

I already eat healthy, although I switched from chicken to a full protein tofu that's low on calories and that has been a blessing for protein intake (along with egg white). I can eat 60g of protein at lunch in about 350 calories.

That gives me everything I need for the gym.

My snack is apple with a teaspoon of pure pistachio butter, which calms down my desire for sweets (I love pistachio)

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Which means that fasting helps you reduce the global calory intake, which is the only way to loose weight.

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

No yeah I wasn't disagreeing with the article,but it's also false that it helps with the calorie restriction itself, depending on the food I eat I can get easily more than 2000 calories in one meal. It's all the things together that make the intermittent fasting work.

Not only that, but intermittent fasting works because of all the food nutrients, when I tried before I was just thinking about food all the time and it was a horrible experience.

Lot of micronutrients, high protein, high fiber, food with slow glucose absorbition, no starch, build up to fasting (start with 12, then next week 18, then 24). Also sleep a lot the day before fasting and drink a lot of water