Intermittent Fasting vs. Traditional Dieting for Weight Loss: What’s Better Based on the Weight of the Evidence?
Blah blah blah, intermittent fasting is an eating pattern that cycles periods of eating and not eating while traditional dieting or continuous energy restriction entails continuously trying to restrict calorie intake. You know all that. Now let’s move on to why you’re reading this post.
You want to know what’s better for weight loss — intermittent fasting (IF) or continuous energy restriction (CER)?
Well, let’s not trust someone who calls herself IntermittentFastingKatie on Instagram, and instead let’s go back in time and go over all the systematic reviews and meta-analyses comparing IF to CER for weight loss outcomes (“all” to my knowledge). So ingest as much coffee as possible and let’s go.
2015
As far as I know, the study by Seimon RV, et al. was the first study where Seimon said hey intermittent fasting has been all the rage lately so let’s investigate the fugg out of the current data and do a systematic review maybe? A bunch of her colleagues went fugg yeah let’s do that. And investigate they did:
