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Does a calorie deficit + fasting burn more calories than doing one or the other?
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Fasting is a method for creating a calorie deficit. It's as simple as that anon
Lets say I eat a calorie deficit of 1700/2500 calories, then fast 18 hours after that, would I burn more?
No
No. You wouldn't burn more fat in that case. The body is always balancing its energy demands and a calorie deficit with 2 meals leads to the same result fatloss wise as a calorie deficit with 6 meals. It'll make it easier to maintain a calorie deficit because your meals will be really large but at the same time you give up on the muscle building benefits of more frequent meals. It's a tradeoff you have to decide on for yourself.
So Ive been starving myself this whole time for virtually no reason
Technically no. The greater the deficit the more you burn. Your TDEE is the cap on what you can burn a day without exercising. If you exercise on top of fasting that's where you can really push those numbers. But for safety I would suggest just doing a deficit, keeping protein in line with your lean body mass, and doing exercise to maintain muscle. Fasting is just setting your intake to zero. That's it. If however it works for you, and allows you to get to a healthy weight then by all means continue it. That's the goal after all.
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Eat a low carb diet at your maintenance calories, and fast one day per week. Yes, fasting does burn fat faster. CICO is cool, but you can help it immensely by not consuming carbs and sugar.
Who cares do both.
You need to fix your diet, fasting is just a sort of stop gap. Potatoes and chicken breast is a good enough main entree with fruits and a salad encompassing the other portion of your day.
OP here I’m 6’3 265 and have been doing this for months. I’ve lost around 50 lbs and gained enough muscle to hit a 265 bench. Should I just keep going with it? Seems to be working for me
It's fine. If it's working then there's no need change anything.
What's your workout routine like OP? I've start doing the same because it's easy on night shifts, but I haven't figured a good plan for the Gym yet. Right now I'm just doing Push, Pull, Legs, Break repeat and sneaking cardio in 2-3 times a week while keeping a minimum 6k steps shooting for 10k. What do you suggest because you height/weight is the same as me?
I do the Coolcicada PPL split plus cardio (running) almost every morning
I'm no science doctor or anything, but I did a -800kcal deficit while also doing a 20:4 IF split, making sure to keep my protein high, and pretty much all of my bodyfat went away after 3 months.
Started at around 18%bf and got as low as 13% in that time frame. So I'm a believer in doing both.
I don't know how healthy it is but when I was fat I fixed it by just stopping eating for awhile. Obviously eat occasionally but frick it don't take this as advice.
No. It's still just how many calories. There's literally no benefit to IF other than caloric restriction - which is in itself a benefit if it helps you sticking to your calorie goals, so I'm not talking it down, but other than putting clear limits, it's doing nothing.