It’s absolutely not compatible with lots of cardio training. You’re losing weight by being in a perma-bonked state, but not feeling hungry.
Source: A guy interviewed on the Nero cycling podcast, a couple of my cyclist friends.
Not sure that there were societies with the quite the same abundance of food prior to the advent of industrial farming, chemical fertlisers, international shipping etc. Certainly not the quantity and choice of delicious ultra-palatable foods with sugar, butter and various exotic flavours from around the world we have today.
These make it way easier to over-eat vs. having a surplus of plain boiled rice or something.
White rice in itself is pretty close to ultra processed, has a glycemic index higher than anything outside sugar, yet is the staple in many countries where people are skinny, and has been for a very long time.
The intermittent fasting sounds like an interesting approach. But can you give me a dummy-how-to rundown of a simple day? I’ve read that the idea is to not make up for missing meals in the time window where you are allowed to eat.
So when I give myself a 10:00AM-06:00PM 8 hours window, would it be reasonable to eat breakfast at 10, then a lunch at 1pm and again a full meal at 6? Sounds like I’d still have the same calories input but in a bit more narrow time window, or is the idea to only have breakfast and dinner but no lunch? (sounds not feasible to me if I’d also want to “fuel the ride” if I go for 90 minutes or longer ride)
