People tend to stick with intermittent fasting better than regular calorie counting over the long term, with fewer dropping out of studies, suggesting it might be easier to keep up with.

The main reason intermittent fasting might be better than cutting calories all the time is that people find it easier to stick with, not because it boosts metabolism more.

People who try intermittent fasting tend to lose a little more weight than those who just cut calories continuously, according to several studies.

If you're trying to lose weight and are overweight or obese, cutting calories just two days a week doesn’t work much better than cutting them every day — the difference is pretty small.

If you eat the same number of calories and protein, fasting every now and then works just as well for losing weight as eating less every day.

Intermittent fasting might help people lose a little more weight than cutting calories the usual way, but the difference is so small it could just be due to chance — overall, both methods work about the same for weight loss in people with overweight or obesity.