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• In order to lose weight or maintain a healthy weight, you need to understand the reasons people are overweight:
  
  • the incentives they feel for maintaining a healthy weight (younger & dating-->more careful about what you're eating)
  • the food they're eating
  • the food choices of the people around them
  • the amount of sleep they're getting (less sleep-->more stress / cortisol-->more eating)
  • the amount of physical activity they do in a day (office job-->less physical activity)
• also, talking about "going on a diet" is absurd if your goal is to keep the weight off. In order to maintain a healthy weight you need to permanently change the foods you are eating.
• Here's an interesting experience I had:
  • One time I was in a super-market and on a whim bought a package of Oreos and three pints of Haagen-Dazs. I ate all that stuff over the course of two days. Before I bought the Oreos/ice-cream I was very, very good at telling what my body wanted when I felt a particular craving. But in the days after I ate the cookies/ice-cream, my ability to detect what my body needed was a little messed up: for example, I would go a few hours without drinking water, and my body would need water and start to go "HEY WE NEED SOMETHING", but I would find myself craving ice cream instead. I think the problem is that our brains have a limited number of ways to go "Ahhhh that's good" or "Hey! Do something!", so when we get a feeling that says "Hey! Do something!" we have this tendency to think of whatever made us feel good in the past. Or something like that.
• Thought: One thing that may keep people from eating fruits and vegetables is that, to have a good experience, you need to know how to choose the specimens that are going to taste good. There's a lot of variability, and if you don't know what you're doing, you're very likely to choose something that you won't like the taste of.  This idea also applies to knowing how to prepare and eat the fruit.  If you cook broccoli correctly it can taste great, but if you don't do it correctly (which is easier than doing it correctly), it won't taste good and you're not likely to want to prepare it again.

Intermittent Fasting

• NerdFitness - The Beginner’s Guide to Intermittent Fasting
• 2016.10.12 - Primal Edge Health - What I've learned from 4 Years of INTERMITTENT FASTING - the good and the bad!
• 2016.11.01 - YouTube - Kevin Kreider - I Wish I Had Known These 3 Things Before Intermittent Fasting
  
  1. You may need less sleep while doing IF. If so, don't worry, just get up and start doing things.
  2. You can drink coffee and tea; that isn't considered breaking the fast.
  3. Ease your way into IF. He wishes he'd fasted for the first hours, then have a ten-hour eating window instead of an eight-hour window. And try doing it every other day instead of every day.
     1. If you don't ease in, you may find yourself feeling really hungry and angry.
     2. It takes 3-6 weeks to get adjusted.
• 2016.11.14 - YouTube - Scooby - The Truth About Intermittent Fasting
  
  • This is primarily a criticism of the Kinobody paid program.
  • Your body needs protein to gain muscle. If you're trying to gain muscle, it doesn't make sense to withhold protein from your body for 16 hours a day.
  • He says that IM can work for fat loss by helping with hunger management, but that you need to be careful that you don't develop an eating disorder.
• 2017.02.17 - YouTube - Brandon Carter - Why I quit IF
  
  • Summary: He found he could put on muscle faster if he didn't do IF, but that it was harder for him to stay lean.
  • He said he'll also switch up his diet depending on his situation. For example, when he went to another city and didn't have as much control over his diet, he switched from his normal diet to IF to accommodate that lack of control.
• 2017.05.25 - BuzzFeed - I Tried Zac Efron’s "Baywatch" Diet And Workout For Two Months And This Is What Happened

• http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/17/health/wiredwell-food-diary-super-tracker.html
• 2015.01.15 - NYT - A 12-Hour Window for a Healthy Weight
  
  • Very interesting. This reminds me of that guy who has that system that he sells. Someone I read about online said that it really works, but he ended up feeling depressed when his body fat percentage got too low.