Do people really believe that fasting for 12 hours a day is gonna magically burn the excessive fat and calories and somehow it`s better than eating small portions and stay closer to your TDEE?
Do people really believe that fasting for 12 hours a day is gonna magically burn the excessive fat and calories and...
Owen Brown
Carter Barnes
>closer to your TDEE
>burning more fat
Robert King
Explanation time:
Your body only uses body fat for energy when there is a lack of available carbs from food and it takes some time for your body to realize "fuck I ain't getting any energy" and start using your fat cells. So now lets imagine you have your usual 5-6 meals a day diet. Your longest fasting period where you don't receive any carbs is around 8-10 hours between dinner and breakfast and your body will take a couple of hours to recognize it won't get any carbs so you're only burning bodyfat for like 6 hours a day. On the other hand someone who's intermittent fasting is only eating 8 hours a day and fasting 16 hours so your "body fat burning"-period has increaased to 14 hours, so you will burn more bodyfat. Couple this with eating below maintainance and the pounds will fly off.
Jordan Watson
So you still need to be under cutting during IF? I had the feeling that people believe you can eat as much as you want, do a fasting and then magically losing weight or not getting fat over the years.
Jordan James
Max energy extracted is 30kcal per lb of fat mass a day.
Hunter Ortiz
No.
The caloric deficit is whay is gonna magically burn fat.
The intermittent fasting is primarily for leptin sensitivity, ghrelin regulation, insulin sensitivity, reducing (or reversing) thermogenic adaptation, increasing gh and test when in a deficit, for greater preservation of musculature,
But those arent good reasons to fast.
Long term psychological compliance is why IF is GOAT.
Literally the only way to stay lean year round as a natty without losing gains
Noah Young
No I don't, but I don't eat as soon as I wakeup because it makes me feel bloated and nauseous. IF is more for the tendency to eat less calories due to the satiety.
Somewhat this. Fat loss isn't Black & White, Calories in vs Out isn't the end all be all.
Jack Hughes
What you forgot is possibly the most important part. Your body doesn't build/lose muscle and fat at the same ratio. Cal in/out remains true on IF, however when on their way out it makes a difference where the calories come from.
So when you bulk on IF, you will gain fat and muscle at a ratio of let's say 50:50%. But when you're in a fasted state you will burn 100% fat.
Evan Perry
If you fast for 16 - 20 hours, it makes eating too many calories unlikely and unenjoyable.
Caloric deficit = lose weight
Kevin Diaz
Nah, you still have to watch your calorie intake. There are people who claim they were able to make "lean gains" with intermittent fasting. Basically they're doing slow body recompositions eating like 100-200 calories above TDEE and working out. Kinobody and Martin Berkhan (the dude who made the idea popular) are both claiming you can stay below 10% bodyfat comfortably and not lose gains with intermittent fasting but both are arguably fake-natties.