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For me, the important part wasn't the late breakfast - I did it all the time anyway - but the absence of late dinners and snacking. Looks like I got some substantial calories there without even realizing it. I am still not sure whether it's the timing aspect or the fact that snacking had been substantially reduced - because I now rarely feel hungry enough mid-day to snack. But it seems to be efficient and does not require constant attention and exercise of willpower like specialized diets and calorie counting I did before required - which I think was the main reason why I could never maintain them, attention is a limited resource, and I have a lot of better things to spend it on. With this, it's simple - if it's in the timeframe and I am hungry, I eat. If it's not, I don't. I don't bother with calorie counting or anything, and the foods that are in exclusion list just aren't in the house in most parts. If I go out occasionally, I may be tempted to eat something "bad", but that so far doesn't seem to happen frequently enough to matter.
Oh it's absolutely effective for calorie restriction without counting too much or overly punishing yourself in social situations ("I don't eat after 8pm" is an easier thing to explain than "I don't eat a long list of foods based on a logic you may or may not agree with").
I just find it amusing that "skip breakfast and avoid snacking late at night" is like grocery-store-checkout women's magazine tier advice, classic weightwatchers stuff. While "I do intermittent fasting on a strict schedule" is optimization bro Huberman-pilled advice.
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