I need to start watching his videos again.
My concern is this: if you dont eat your body uses the stored fat as energy, but if you eat it uses the energy from the food you ate. However, if you eat a incredibly low amount of calories per day wouldnt that make your body go into a state where it holds onto fat because it thinks food is scarce?
Is this a thing or am I wrong? Wouldnt eating 1 snack a day, which is a low amount of calories, be counterproductive because of how your body would react?
So I haven’t done his daily snack plan but I have definitely cheated during fasting periods but still lost weight.
I’d have like 20 macadamia nuts, more than a splash of HWC in my coffee or a couple ounces of cream cheese, once even had a can of tuna with mayo. This was usually done during the 40 to 44 hour range on a 4 day fast where I’d dry fasted the first 24-30 hours after a high calorie refeed.
And guess what, I still lost significant weight! Like 12+ pounds in 4 days. This is not to encourage anyone to follow my example, just a reference that eating <300-400 zero to low carb calories within a 15-20 minute window will not hinder your weight loss.
That’s actually what I’ve been doing the past week with sprouted oats. I think it works well. I haven’t felt like eating a buffet. I’ve been losing weight steadily as if I’m fasting. I don’t think I absorb but 5 percent of the nutrition from the oats. I’ve had consistent keto breath despite consuming “carbs”.
It’s not a good idea. Eating calories <TDEE has been well studied to cause muscle atrophy. This is something which eating 0 calories (fasting) prevents. Here’s a good tl;dr video on the differences between actual fasting and simply eating too little.