@arstechnica the measure of control required to follow any restricted eating plan is an enormous factor.
It’s often left unsaid, but the intermittent fasting advocates I’ve seen/heard make it pretty clear that the calories consumed should decline (which is certainly my own experience).
Restricting calories through strict outside monitoring & control (as in the study) is not a practical solution, but creating & maintaining a time restricted diet can be.
@arstechnica Por que no los dos? why not both? I guarantee that eating less will drop weight. I also guarantee that if you don’t eat you will drop weight. I’m on a Keto diet and eat in the morning around 7 am and then again at 7pm after I work out. In 3 months I dropped 30 lbs.
@arstechnica I tried it for a bit. It was valuable as psychology. It’s not the right time to eat, but that time is coming up. So you’d skip one more snack. Without feeling like it was “never eating again”. Every little bit.
@arstechnica iirc, IF is cutting calories by limiting caloric intake by time. Which is obvious yes, but say you you eat the majority of your food when you're going to be active. Idk, I kinda did this a few years ago. Dropped like 70lbs.