> Intermittent fasting should work as long as the specific protocol doesn't decrease leptin levels such that the obese body enters starvation mode. In my opinion, the most workable approach for people is to try their best to completely eliminate carbs Monday-Friday, eat all the carbs they want on the weekends, and do the bare minimum of a 10-minutes HIIT routine every other day.
This is just calorie cycling with extra steps.
It doesn't honestly matter if it is 5 days on, 2 days off, or 2 months on, 2 weeks off. It is up to a person's individual biology. When the scale stops moving, up calorie intake to the extent that the scale doesn't move up more than a smidge, wait a bit, then drop calories again.
TKD, CKD, intermittent fasting, dirty keto, keto with a once a month weekend pizza binge, whatever, almost any combo of "eat less for awhile, then eat normal for little bit, then eat less again".
That's almost right, but it's carb cycling, not calorie cycling. The difference does matter.
>TKD, CKD, intermittent fasting, dirty keto, keto with a once a month weekend pizza binge, whatever, almost any combo of "eat less for awhile, then eat normal for little bit, then eat less again".
I believe that the best approaches, for a given period, will be 2/3 of the time on minimal-to-no carbs, then 1/3 on carbs (which, for seven days, rounds to 5-off / 2-on). The leptin information also suggests that an obese person shouldn't be off carbs for long periods of time, and one week is a nice time frame for people (go low-carb during the work week, have carbs on the weekend).
This is just calorie cycling with extra steps.
It doesn't honestly matter if it is 5 days on, 2 days off, or 2 months on, 2 weeks off. It is up to a person's individual biology. When the scale stops moving, up calorie intake to the extent that the scale doesn't move up more than a smidge, wait a bit, then drop calories again.
TKD, CKD, intermittent fasting, dirty keto, keto with a once a month weekend pizza binge, whatever, almost any combo of "eat less for awhile, then eat normal for little bit, then eat less again".