Tallying kilojoules may be out of fashion – now replaced by modish macros – but when it comes to weight loss, it’s the only strategy that adds up.
IN MY JOB AS A TRAINER, the question I get asked most frequently (besides whether we can train arms today) is: “Can trending eating plans such as intermittent fasting or the ketogenic diet actually speed up my weight loss?” The simple answer is yes. But if they all work, why are there so many options, and why is the country in the grip of an obesity epidemic? This is equally easy to explain: the results are almost always, sadly, temporary 1. Many people assume that there must be a complex biochemical reason why these diets work, but the reality is far more mundane. It’s all just maths: simple addition and subtraction, the sort you can do in your head. If we consider intermittent fasting, all that you’re doing by creating arbitrary boundaries around the times you can eat is limiting the amount of kilojoules you consume over a given period of time.
This story is from the March 2019 edition of Men's Health Australia.
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