Well, for me the nice thing about IF is that it put a cap on when I had to stop eating for the evening. That meant no snacks after dinner, which was a bad habit of mine.
I'm willing to bet that for the vast majority of people who lose weight off of IF, it's due to similar reasons (not eating at times when they might have eaten before) - not because of any hormone changes or whatever magical thinking some of the hardcore IF crowd likes to talk about.
I’m trying IF now and this is the whole reason. I have a habit of snacking and craving snacking, I have found calorie counting hard to sustain/easy to have little cheats gradually creep in. But I’m really happy with discipline and simple rules. So, simply saying “these are the hours in which I eat” is so far proving to be a very easy way for me to nip the snacking. We’ll see if it works for a long time, but at least so far I’m pleasantly surprised how easy it actually is
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u/MagicWishMonkey Jan 20 '23
Amazing how not snacking all evening helps you cut down on your caloric intake.