In the process of reviewing nearly all of IDM's blog posts I ran across the following blog that details exactly why intermittent fasting is necessary and why constant calorie reduction does not work. Please read:
https://intensivedietarymanagement.com/ ... ng-part-9/
From the article summary:
"If you try to keep a constant diet, the body will adapt to it. This means that successfully dieting requires an intermittent strategy, not a constant one. This is a crucial difference. The difference is between restricting some foods all the time (CER) and restricting all foods some of the time (IER). This is the difference between failure and success."
From my own experience, I found that it is very easy to blend feast day and fast day calorie consumptions into a steady-state average for all days of the week. This is NOT want you want do because of the negative effect it has on reducing your overall metabolism.
If you're stuck in a plateau, want to lose further weight, and otherwise want to continue to reap the other benefits of IF, there are clear reasons now to keep the body challenged by following the original feast day, fast day recommendatations for whichever IF method you prefer.
Make sense? Discuss?
https://intensivedietarymanagement.com/ ... ng-part-9/
From the article summary:
"If you try to keep a constant diet, the body will adapt to it. This means that successfully dieting requires an intermittent strategy, not a constant one. This is a crucial difference. The difference is between restricting some foods all the time (CER) and restricting all foods some of the time (IER). This is the difference between failure and success."
From my own experience, I found that it is very easy to blend feast day and fast day calorie consumptions into a steady-state average for all days of the week. This is NOT want you want do because of the negative effect it has on reducing your overall metabolism.
If you're stuck in a plateau, want to lose further weight, and otherwise want to continue to reap the other benefits of IF, there are clear reasons now to keep the body challenged by following the original feast day, fast day recommendatations for whichever IF method you prefer.
Make sense? Discuss?