Again, your mileage may vary, but I've found, and this is supported by many doctors who actually treat obese patients with low-carb diets, is to keep consistantly below 20 grams of carbs a day, which includes fiber. This was the original Atkins diet. Later, this was modified to subtract fiber from the carb count to get "net carbs", but if you don't try and worry about that but just keep it to 20 grams of carbs, period, and that includes sugar alcohols, then you will continue to lose weight.
Acutally, there's another part to this recipe, namely fat. If you're going to eat very low levels of carbs, you absolutely MUST eat high levels of fat. If you try and replace the carbs with lean protein, like lean pork and white-meat chicken or turkey, you will get sick. You'll get nauseous and feel weak because you're body will be lacking a good energy source. EAT YOUR FAT!
Following these guidelines, then you can fiddle around with IF'ing or smaller portions or whatever, but unless you restrict the insulin response, you won't be able to consistently lose weight. Oh, and if you happen to be a post-menopausal woman, then watch your caffeine too.
It's really not so complex. What often makes it more complex is that the weight loss is not a smooth linear process and so when things slow down we try all kinds of tricks or modifications to figure out what to do. If we start to lose again after having done something, where there was a causation or it was just happenstance, then we're likely to try that again, but the mechanism of weight loss is becoming better known and some simple things are really all we need to do, most of the time.
But then again, this is what I've found in my own experience, and from reading studies and reports of clinical experience. YMMV.
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