What is intermittent fasting?

Intermittent fasting is an eating pattern where you cycle between periods of eating and fasting. There are a variety of intermittent fasting methods, but all of them share a similar premise when you’re fasting, your body is able to burn through stored energy, or calories, more quickly.

Intermittent fasting is a way of manipulating the body’s natural inclination to store calories. When we fast, the body is forced to use stored energy, which leads to weight loss.

Health benefits associated with intermittent fasting:

There are a number of health benefits associated with intermittent fasting, including improved mental clarity and decreased inflammation.

Intermittent fasting is not a diet, but rather a pattern of eating. It’s a way of structuring your meals around your body’s natural patterns of hunger and fullness.

Intermittent fasting methods:

There are a number of different ways to do intermittent fasting. The most common is the 168 method, where you eat for 8 hours and fast for 16. This means that you would eat all your meals between, say, 10 am and 6 pm, and then fast for the remaining 16 hours.

Other methods include the 52 diet, where you eat normally for 5 days of the week and fast for 2, and the Warrior Diet, where you eat one large meal at night and fast during the day.

The key to successful intermittent fasting is finding a method that works for you and your body.

In the last few years there has been an increase on the people that choose this method not just to lose weight but as a permanent solution to improve in their overall health but since this method can be overwhelming and a big change on your day to day life it is always recommended to get the support of a professional dietitian to overlook your journey and see if this is the correct path for you to take.