Does IF actually help you lose weight?

[jennifer_bloom]

Today my lunch was delayed by 2 hours and when I ate, I ate twice as much as usual. IF might work for people others but I am not sure it works for me. I was not trying to fast, my parents said they would buy lunch so I did not eat until they got home and they were 2 hours late.

[Razp_Sorbet]

Fasting will only work if you eat less calories in a day. Every single diet out there is designed to lower your calorie intake as the only rule in weight loss is calories in vs calories out meaning you need to burn more calories than you consume in a day.

[pascal_climbs]

You loose weight when you are in calorie deficit. It does not matter how you achieve that. IF fasting can help, but not if it does not create that deficit. Then you fool yourself.

[DryGermanGuy]

My main political magazine here has or had a series about one writer doing IF for a year or longer with positive results. His fasting windows are way longer than two hours, though.