I have tried this ...
But for losing weight you have that starvation mode your body kicks into...
if you keep doing it too much your body start storing all the calories....
A really comes down to counting your calorie intake .... Getting rid of all the sugar.. eating more fruit for your sugar fix..
Imho
Starvation Mode
All calorie deficit diets eventually stop working. So, it is not something unique to Intermittent Fasting.
It has to do with...
The General Adaptation Sydrome
This means you body learn to adapt to anything new.
New research has demonstrated that it takes approximately two weeks for your body to become acclimated to a decrease or increase in calorie intake.
Thus, the first two week of a Calorie Restricted Diet will be the most effective. After two weeks, maintaining the same amount of calories on a diet doesn't work well if at all.
What the research found was that with to make ANY diet work, you need to change it up approximately every two weeks.
In plain English it is a...
Yo-Yo Weight Loss Diet
1) Determine you average daily caloric consumption that allows you to maintain your body weight, without it changing.
A "Three Day Recall" in which you count everything for three days and then divide by 3 give you that.
2) Drop you average daily caloric intake by 20% for two weeks. Drs John Ivy and Layne Norton independently found that a 20% calorie reduction ensured you maintain more muscle mass and decreased your body fat.
3) After you two week calorie deficit, go back to your increase you caloric intake back up 20%, consuming the amount of calories in which you body weight was maintained.
The 20% increase ensure the weight you gain back will be more muscle and less body fat. That providing your training and life style are in order.
Bodybuilder's Mass and Cut Diets
This type of "Yo-Yo Diet" has been employed by Bodybuilders for decades because it work.
However, Bodybuilder who dramatically decrease calories end up cutting a lot of muscle along with body fat.
Bodybuilders who dramatically increase calories during a bulking phase end up adding a lot of body fat along with muscle.
Eating Fruit For Sugar Fix
That is not the most effective method for decreasing sugar cravings. Sugar creates a "Somogyi Effect". It increases insulin production which is followed by a drop insulin.
The decrease of insulin produces hunger and the craving for more sugar.
A diet that is high in low glycemic index, fibrous vegetables, protein and higher fat intake minimizes or eliminates sugar cravings.
Kenny Croxdale
