This is good to see in a study. Personal experience was that intermittent fasting was easier on hunger but harder to make work in a family or with other social settings.
If you’re solo I think it’s easier to do intermittent fasting as you can sort of adopt that timetable rather than adopting a habit of detailing calorie counts at meals and all day. Seems more sustainable.
I’d be interested to learn how this fits in with the Hungry Brain (cool book with many stories of interesting studies) idea and research about how taste creates learning/reinforcement that makes avoiding overeating very hard. That idea basically says that we’re fat because we overeat and we overeat because our engineered-to-be-delicious-and-irresistible foods are too much for our brains to handle responsibly. What is it about fasting reduces the desire for food quantity or type?
My wife tried keto and that was even worse. Had to cook essentially different meals for her than everyone else. It’s hard to remove most carbs from most meals we normally eat. So intermittent fasting actually worked out better for us.
This is good to see in a study. Personal experience was that intermittent fasting was easier on hunger but harder to make work in a family or with other social settings.
If you’re solo I think it’s easier to do intermittent fasting as you can sort of adopt that timetable rather than adopting a habit of detailing calorie counts at meals and all day. Seems more sustainable.
I’d be interested to learn how this fits in with the Hungry Brain (cool book with many stories of interesting studies) idea and research about how taste creates learning/reinforcement that makes avoiding overeating very hard. That idea basically says that we’re fat because we overeat and we overeat because our engineered-to-be-delicious-and-irresistible foods are too much for our brains to handle responsibly. What is it about fasting reduces the desire for food quantity or type?
Agreed. It’s both hard to schedule social meals into a fasting schedule, and also difficult to explain.
Some people get really concerned at the idea that one might skip meals, and view it as disordered eating.
My wife tried keto and that was even worse. Had to cook essentially different meals for her than everyone else. It’s hard to remove most carbs from most meals we normally eat. So intermittent fasting actually worked out better for us.