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Yes it's a good one if it fits in to your routine.
Definitely less bloating and inflammation in the stomach - seems to help with things like that.
And it does make losing weight easier overall for certain people. My dad went from 19-13st and has stuck to it for years.
Saves time in a morning too!
To mew doesn't matter whether it's calorie restriction or whatever if it works for you.
I do it once a week as it just breaks things up a bit and gives you a target.
No randomised trials have been done
Omelette for lunch then meat and greens for dinner nearly every sodding day.
May I interest you in the world of the salad?
I am trying to keep starchy carbs down (not as drastically as you) and I love my lunches! Generally have any combination of grated carrot or diced cabbage or beetroot, lettuce etc, avocado, tinned mackerel, olives, capers, things in jars (like roasted peppers or baba ganoush), nuts, seeds, various dressings. One of the highlights of my day.
You could possibly consider beans or lentils in the evening meals, as these aren't too starchy, if you've got any leeway.
I used to have a really early start, I skipped breakfast a few times but found that it screwed my lunchtime swim or run. Go for a run before eating breakfast sure as you'll be running on glycogen stored in the muscles and liver, but exercise after fasting for long enough to run down energy reserves is asking for trouble in terms of performance and risk of injury.
Yeah I was about to chuck that lancet paper in too.
I'm doing 16:8 (due to work I'm nearer 18:6) well have done for a week. I know it's a calorie restriction but gives me a window to work in and helps me avoid snacking. Both in evening and mid morning. I did a couple of easy fasted runs as well (6km and 10km which previously would have been no breakfast but probably snacking from evening before).
I move quite a lot so this is helping with the eat less part.
There's at least one paper that compares 16:8 fasting to alternate days to restricted calorie diet and the outcomes seemed to say IF had better outcomes for insulin use and was easier than the 5:2 fasting although weight loss was similar.
For record I've gone from 71.8kg to 68.7kg in just over a week. Which seems a big step but that last reading was this morning and yesterday's meal was annoyingly small but once I'd got over that I didn't snack and I know I've got the body fat to see me through. Although it's not something I'm looking to do too often.
Sorry - yes, I should have been more specific. There are no randomised trials comparing hard outcomes - only short term surrogate markers like insulin use, blood glucose. Promising, yes. But nothing that would justify advocating behaviour change of a whole population.
But nothing that would justify advocating behaviour change of a whole population.
I think Dr J was asking opinions with the view of possibly tweaking his own behaviour not necessarily that of the whole population.
I think the responses he has received has had that in mind.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5tq3?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
More or less recently covered this.
I forgot to add, my wife has ulcerative colitis and uses fasting as a way to keep it in check. It hasn't fixed the issue but she hasn't had a proper nasty flare up since starting fasting and this was a long time ago.
I suggested it as a way of giving her body the chance to proccess what was already in there. No idea if that is whats happening but it made sense in my head.
I used to do the 800(?) calories twice a week but...
I had to stop because it was making me too grumpy at work.
Currently don't eat after 6pm nor before 8am. Don't see this as fasting, more normal eating patterns.
Interestingly my YouTube recommendations threw up a video suggesting the 16/8 IF with the feeding 8am-2pm is better for the fasting benefits, I guess because you're eating the food when most of us need it through the day, and fasting into the evening and overnight where people tend to be less active? Anyway it was the first I've seen it that way around.
I think the 'missing breakfast' style of IF is probably easier for most though as it's easier to fit in with other family/social eating? No one cares if you don't have breakfast, but might get grumpy if you don't want to eat dinner or tea with everyone.