Pedantically, yes. However folks who use it for dieting use it as a tool to restrict calories. There's a reasonable upper limit to the amount someone will eat in one meal, and by delaying their meals they are able to simply reduce the amount they consume in one day.
Judging from experience of several years on a 16-8 fasting protocol, it’s super easy to overeat. All it takes is a bag of chips and a couple of cokes :)
Studies have shown that any weight loss benefits of intermittent fasting correlate directly to how many fewer calories you eat, and nothing else.
When it comes to diet, consuming fewer calories than you burn in a day is literally only way to lose weight. Anything else is a cheap mind trick.
Ok, but almost no one disputes that, right? The argument is whether intermittent fasting makes it easier--for any number of reasons, such as causing you to feel less hungry or force you into a better schedule or whatever--to cause you to eat less calories.
Many people do, actually. They argue that fasting “reprograms your metabolism” or changes how your body digests food or the like.
If you think of it as a different way to effect caloric restriction, then you’re on the right track.
Restricting when you can eat limits the amount you can eat, because humans have a limited storage capacity and throughput.
Depends on what you eat. There are plenty of calorie-dense foods that are super easy to consume without much thinking (potato chips, Coca Cola, chocolate, etc)
You can still overeat on a fasting schedule.