About 6 months ago I started Intermittent Fasting (16 hours from end of dinner to start of next meal) - mostly to trigger autophagy (clean up misfolded proteins, remove senescent cells - supposed to help prevent dementia) and cycle my fuel system between glucose-based and ketone-based (supposed to help keep T2DM away).
I continued to eat the same amount of food - just in a shorter time window (seems like I was chewing the whole time).
At my annual physical, my doc mentions I've lost 'about ten’ pounds.
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This was completely unintentional. I've been slightly overweight, but not enough to matter.
If I was actually trying to lose weight, I'd probably try this first.
Any other IF folks out there?
As a side note, I suspect I was doing IF for years, just because I was waiting for a time slot at my pool that wasn't busy - and I wanted to start out on an empty stomach (wives' tales often have some truth to them). So I usually had 'breakfast' around 1-2PM.
