Are you STILL restricting calories in 2025?

For two hundred thousand years, our body’s appetite and weight-control systems functioned well. They even worked during the US boom years from the 1940s through the 1970s, when food was just as abundant as it is today. And just like today, almost everyone had an automobile—we weren’t walking everywhere—and jogging and gym-going were relatively rare

Diets based on choice restriction and calorie limits usually fail. People on restrictive diets get tired of feeling hungry and deprived. They go off their diets, put the weight back on (primarily as increased body fat), and then feel bad about themselves for not having enough will power, discipline, or motivation. Weight loss has little to do with

Therefore, the science leads us to recommend fasting over caloric restriction for everyone.

Our high-fat diets have turned us into excellent fat-burners. It can be quite satisfying to know you’re burning your own body fat, and we would never go back to the habit of eating meals at assigned times—it’s so restrictive.