drago-1

>What if I would use a second phone, a cheap one, used only for the whatsapp (and some other essential but privacy invasive apps). I would not have that second phone always with me, but it would provide me access to the social network I need without feeling tracked or providing more data than needed.

This is what I'm doing currently: an old phone used exclusively for whatsapp (with an empty contact list); it always stays at home. I only use it to coordinate kid's stuff (school, social activities, etc), so there is no problem with me not having it with me the whole time.

I've seen this explanation coming up quite often in discussions around Qualcomm or other similarly sized players: you have to be ordering (very) large numbers to be able to get their attention. Documentation is provided under NDAs I hear, and if you'd let's say, decide to buy a small(er) number of boards off the grey market (from one of their direct customers), you'd still have the problem of lack of support (firmware/code, docs, etc).

I think that the reason OP is excited is not the weight loss per se, but because of the realisation that it happened in a way that feels sustainable long term.

I agree. IF helped, though, by reducing the time window where I need to preocuppy myself with food/eating topics. Basically outside of my eating interval I don't think/worry about food at all, I can focus on something else. IF does require some getting used to, though.

Exactly! In addition to what you said, it requires persistence - many times the motivation falls below the watermark before the results start showing.

The OP description matches my experience fairly accurately - I lost ~9 kg in 4 months (yay!) using essentially the same routine.

Prior to this, I've done IF (18:6) for 18 months without any visible weight loss simply because I was ingesting the same amount of food just in a shorter interval.

It really started working when, in addition to the IF (which I kept for other benefits), I started restricting my calorie intake - not counting calories, but simply setting a reasonable portion size and sticking to it, only reducing slightly after 7-10 days of lack of progress.

Other things that helped me greatly:

-don't sit at the eating table while being (really) hungry!

I have a snack (fresh fruits, vegetables, various nuts) 1 hour before the actual meal, such that when sat at the table I am in control, and can stop eating easily.

-prepare your food, place it on a plate, take a picture and send it to a friend before starting to eat!

I used to start eating as I was preparing the food, and it becomes hard to keep track of how much you ingested. Plus, when you take a picture to send it to someone else, you look at it with different eyes, and it jumps out at you: Hey,this is a lot of food!)