>The point I guess it that there are dietary regimens that tend to naturally restrict caloric intake without any effort.
By "dietary regimens" are you talking about intermittent fasting? I find it hard to believe that "not eating for 16 hours a day" is "without any effort", or less effort than "not snacking" or "not eating smaller meals".
>The question is not if eating less causes weight loss, but which regimen is best to avoid overeating while eating to satiety.
That's what a lot of commenters are concluding, but it's not really obvious to a uninformed layman who's just reading the title. "Time-restricted eating reduces visceral fat and improves metabolic syndrome" makes it sound like the benefits are coming from the time restriction, not from eating less calories.
> By "dietary regimens" are you talking about intermittent fasting? I find it hard to believe that "not eating for 16 hours a day" is "without any effort", or less effort than "not snacking" or "not eating smaller meals".
As someone who used to weigh a lot more, I think you'd be surprised. The first couple days are a little rough, but after that you're just not very hungry during the day. In contrast, "eating smaller meals" fucking sucked. You're still hungry, you've already gone out of your way to obtain food, and now you have to stop and keep going on with your day. Remember that people don't get fat being used to eating appropriate size meals.
By "dietary regimens" are you talking about intermittent fasting? I find it hard to believe that "not eating for 16 hours a day" is "without any effort", or less effort than "not snacking" or "not eating smaller meals".
>The question is not if eating less causes weight loss, but which regimen is best to avoid overeating while eating to satiety.
That's what a lot of commenters are concluding, but it's not really obvious to a uninformed layman who's just reading the title. "Time-restricted eating reduces visceral fat and improves metabolic syndrome" makes it sound like the benefits are coming from the time restriction, not from eating less calories.