Intermittent fasting is not a diet, it’s a pattern of eating. It’s a way of scheduling your meals so that you get the most out of them. Intermittent fasting doesn’t change what you eat, it changes when you eat.
But why is it worthwhile to change when you’re eating?
Well, most importantly, it’s a great way to lose weight without going on a crazy diet or cutting your calories down to almost nothing. In fact, most of the time you’ll try to keep your calories the same when you start fasting. (Most people eat bigger meals during a shorter time frame.) Additionally, intermittent fasting is a good way to keep muscle mass on while still losing body fat.
The Intermittent Fasting Methods
There are many different ways of fasting, all of which involve splitting the day or week into eating and fasting periods. During the fasting periods, you eat either very little or nothing at all. These are the most popular methods:
The 16/8 method: This involves skipping breakfast and restricting your daily eating period to 8 hours, such as 1-9 p.m or 12-8 p.m. Then you fast for 16 hours in between.
Eat-Stop-Eat: This involves fasting for 24 hours, once or twice a week, for example by not eating from dinner one day until dinner the next day.
The 5:2 diet: With this method, you consume only 500-600 calories on two non-consecutive days of the week, but eat normally the other 5 days.
Health Benefits of Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent Fasting can help you lose weight
Health Benefits of Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent Fasting can help you lose weight
Many who try intermittent fasting are doing it in order to lose weight. The bottom line is, intermittent fasting will make you eat fewer meals. Unless if you compensate by eating much more during the other meals, you will end up taking in fewer calories.
The single best “diet” for you is the one you can stick to in the long run. If intermittent fasting makes it easier for you to stick to a healthy diet, then this has obvious benefits for long-term health and weight maintenance.
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