Super-Low Carb Or Intermittent Fasting?

Below is a copy of the post over at Jimmy Moore’s regarding low carb and fasting that I have replied on

From JimmyMoore:

Super-Low Carb Or Intermittent Fasting?: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/ask-the-…sting.html ~Why not both? Eating a high-fat, moderate protein, low-carb ketogenic diet will spontaneously make you IF naturally. That’s what I’ve found doing my n=1 experiment testing nutritional ketosis over the past eight months. Consuming food that produces an adequate level of blood ketones will allow me to go 16-24 hours between meals on most days with ease. So I think you can get both the benefits of healthy high-fat, low-carb AND intermittent fasting at the same time. If you are eating enough in your high-fat, moderate protein, low-carb meal(s), then IFing is a cinch.

My response:

Strangely enough, I found exactly the same experience when I first started low carbing and was weight training at the same time. It was very easy not to eat anything between 6 in the evening going right through ‘til mid day the next day. In fact, the lack of hunger throughout that 18 hour period was for me, in many ways, proof that the way I was eating was right for me.

Fast forward a decade or so and I can still eat like that without any problem. My bacon and egg breakfast will quite often slip through to 1 o’ clock and become lunch and lunch will move through to later afternoon or early evening with an occasional munch on a bit of cheese or slice meat depending on what sort of work load I’ve got going on during the rest of the day.

I find I thrive under a regime like that. In fact calling it a regime is probably totally misleading as it’s not something I dictate to my body. It’s more something that my body leads me into doing. I find I sleep better and I have more energy and of course there’s a gain in time through not having to prepare or even think about more than two meals at the most each day

Why not give it a try?

Mark