What would be the benefits to an hourly diet model?

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Insulin would always be elevated

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who gives a shite?

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What would be the benefits to an hourly diet model

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Would it help or harm your metabolism, would you body go into starvation mode if it’s always running near empty?

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starvation mode is so so so overblown. it would not harm your metabolism, neither positive nor negative.

95% of what happens with the body bf and muscle wise when it comes to diet, is controlled by 2 things...calories and protien. everything else makes up the other 5%. Keto, IF, carnivore, high carb, low carb, carb back loading etc.....all account for very very very little when it comes to overall body comp.

resistance training i.e. actual progressive overload training, not just doing random machines, is the next biggest factor. certain types of cardio such as true sprints, hill sprints, sled pushes etc have been shown to help some too.

sleep is the next biggest component

eating at the same time everyday(whether its 1,2, or even 8 or in your case 16 meals) has shown to help reduce bf% over a diet that one eats randomly once cals, sleep and protein are equated.


having carbs only during the peri-workout window has shown very small benifits

other than that.....its all cals and protein.

all this shite was covered in the leangains method book, layne nortons books etc.

Sounds dumb and unnecessarily tough

It doesn’t matter in the long run when calories are equated. Do what you like

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Well your metabolism increases with fasting, but lowers with lowering calories.

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not really. when cals and protein are equated....body comp changes are pretty much exactly the same.

This stuff really, really varies from person to person. I start with a calorie count based on age, sex, body mass and activity level and then find what works. Within that number, my goal is to emphasize healthier proteins and fats and de-emphasize carbs. I'm not a keto eater, and don't try to cut anything out. I try to eat relatively small amounts of things that have a lower caloric density when I get hungry - fasting doesn't work for me.

Long and short of this post is that it definitely helps me to eat something fairly frequently, but not hourly - I'm not hungry that frequently. For point of reference, I'm 53 y.o. M, 5'10" 165 or a shade under most days. Two mile walk w/ dog every morning + tennis twice weekly and an hour on the stationary bike on the days I don't play tennis.

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Then you won’t lose weight

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You're missing the point. No significant difference in constant feeding, normal feeding, and fasting feeding if equating calories whether it be in surplus or deficit.

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doesn't mean fasting is king of losing weight

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I'm taking when you say fasting you mean just IF, because fasting is king. That includes the autophagy and the huge hormone boost you get with fasting. I believe people overlook the hormone benefit from fasting even as peoples hormones have progressively, collectively gotten
worse.

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Fasting vs. Eating Less: What's the Difference? (Science of Fasting)

I also get that often times a calorie is a calorie, but it isn't always. Like studies show the same calories, same macro breakdown, but different types of fat will get you different weights. That could because some things that have been made foods, weren't made to be food for humans, like polyunsaturated fats. I do get that a calorie is a calorie is a very good starting point and normally covers like 90% of the weight issue.

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I'm taking when you say fasting you mean just IF, because fasting is king.

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ALL fasting. When it's equating in calories.

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DK what you mean, fasting doesn't have any calories.

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This thread is about diets not fasting. Fasting as a diet tool is the same as any other method when calories are equated.