| I agree, I'm going on 50 and working hard on a beach body. Traditional wisdom says that's nearly impossible at my age without "supplements" like "vitamin T". I've found that IF is the real key for me. I do one meal per day, and I can see all my nutrients laid out in front of me. Aside from the other purported benefits of IF, this level of control I think is the main benefit to me. I think that a lot of people don't realize how disconnected the feeling of hunger is from your actual (very minimal) caloric requirements. Hunger is mostly a trained response, a production of ghrelin that's mostly a pavlovian response coupled with incredibly complex gut and psychological factors. The hunger response can be trained away in about a week. I generally don't start getting hungry until around 6pm, when I've trained my body that it's dinner time. Snacking, IMHO, is the single biggest weight loss killer. |
True, this is my observation as well.
"The hunger response can be trained away in about a week."
Unfortunately, it is quite easy to fall off the bandwagon in irregular conditions (holidays, vacations, a visit to an elderly relative who insists on feeding you). The adaptation to IF is, in my case, lost just after a day or two of non-IFing. And once it is gone, I have to undergo the week-long self-training again.