I have never experienced success with using intermittent fasting or skipping meals. for me, those kind of practices ALWAYS resulted in compensatory eating. the only exception was a very brief time last year (after lots of work on the real issues behind my emotional eating...) when I did lower calories 1100-1500 over a 6 week period, higher in protein, lower in carb. but during this time, I never fasted, or skipped a meal. when I transitioned back to a normal way of eating, i definitely put back a few pounds like leigh talks about in her books, but have since taken them off and am maintaining easily.
I would love to hear from people who currently use intermittent fasting/eat stop eat/ meal skipping who also feel they are at an optimal weight, have a peaceful relationship with food and rarely have serious binge eating episodes or serious emotional overeating.
I think there are lots of different paths to finding peace with food and living in a healthy body. I just don't know of any literature or professionals who advocate these practices as part of a comprehensive, evidenced- based path to recovering from food issues. they might very well work for people who have minimal issues with food, but I haven't seen them work really well for people who still have work to do.
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