I'm living proof that your assertion is incorrect. All I did to lose 80lbs was stop eating completely for days at a time. I resumed eating once a day and have maintained my target weight for half a year so far.


I absolutely, positively guarantee that fasting nets faster weight loss than any kind of "low calorie intake" diet. You can't get something for nothing, the human body is not a perpetual motion machine. Fat in the body is there specifically to be burned when there is no food being eaten. This whole "starvation mode" thing is utter nonsense. Starvation mode is just that: the body starts burning fat deposits when it runs out of nutrients in the digestive tract to consume.