Conflicting information and plateaus in 16/8 fasting

Essentially I recently came across a YouTuber by the name of Thomas DeLauer. The guy swears by some form of fasting but is an active critic of "longer-term" or "habitual" intermittent fasting. He describes a process in which one's body adapts to the format and where eventually your body no longer benefits from the "stress" of fasting. This makes me wonder, would there potentially be any merit to doing something like an intervalled intermittent fasting, where one would let's say do IF for 4 weeks and then eat normally for one week followed by X number of IF weeks, etc. The thought process here is similar to what one might do with resistance training, where it can be very useful to occasionally change up the process so as to "shock" the muscles. I'm largely considering this as I have kind of hit a plateau with IF, essentially a weight class that my body generally gravitates to in the longer term. I would like to gently move to the lower side of this weight class. Could there be any merit to this kind of interval approach to IF?

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Who is Thomas delauer and why would you listen to him? That said, it’s just common sense that if something is no longer working for you then you should try something else. If you’re not seeing progress with 16:8 then you need to change what you’re eating or change when you’re eating. Longer fasts will definitely give you results. Taking a break from fasting? Maybe, maybe not. You could try it and see.

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There is a lot of information out there and people interpret it in different ways. There are many people who think along these lines. You’ll hear people advocate for periodic reverse dieting for example. I can’t say either way but it’s been my observation that people get way too far in to the weeds on things that don’t apply to or that really benefit them.

Are you still drinking alcohol? Have you 100% nailed your nutrition? Are you getting 7-8 hours sleep a night? Are you moving your body dialy? These super simple, accessible and FREE things are bigger levers than alternating fasting/eating periods.

For most people most of what is said out there simply doesn’t apply in any really meaningful way. Like why spend money on supplement when you aren’t eating a nutrient rich diet? Yes maybe supplements are better than no supplements, but working on your diet will have a bigger impact.

You get to choose what tools to leverage in your journey. It’s easy to get caught up in the details when they really don’t matter as much as some dude with a YT channel would like you to think.

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There are so many factors to consider. I think 16/8 fasting is more for maintaining than loosing. You need to increase your fasting window and lower your eating window - 20:4 and the pounds will start coming off again. Also, changing up the time of day for your eating window could help.

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I do omad mostly,with the occasional longer fast, not for weight loss as already at a good weight more just to control urges and I like how it feels.I view it this way, whilst I do omad most of the time, there’s always occasions that get in the way, social events, weddings,work stuff that means probably on average one day every few weeks I just eat whatever/whenever, sometimes going crazy. I figure that’s enough of a change to give my body a shock, no need to regulate it.Fwiw my weight has been pretty stable for over 12 months doing this (and eating whatever I want in my omad/22-2 window

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Anecdata but I was just on a European trip, ate at all /any hours for a week as I was with other. I enjoyed all foods including baguette and desserts and wine ( but not to gross excess, I simply can’t eat much at once anymore). Maintained my weight on the trip despite a much higher calorie load and no fasting beyond whatever I felt like . Returned to 18/6 and either one or two meals day this week and lighter meals and now weigh less than before the trip. I’m a fan of mixing things up in general: meals, workouts; etc.