Like I say in my blog post: we are are our own controller. Observe inputs and results.

These days I have lost enough fat that I can, by eyeballing, see what I had for dinner the night before. Lots of carbs --> retain water --> some veins disappear. Few carbs --> less water retained --> veins more visible.

At the moment I try to schedule particularly carby dinners for hypertrophy days, on the theory that this will work better for sarcoplasmic hypertrophy purposes.

But at this point in the discussion I am well and truly majoring in the minors. The headline is still that I am losing fat through caloric deficit and that for me, the easiest way to do so is intermittent fasting.