How does intermittent fasting work?
In a world where cardiovascular disease, hypertension and diabetes have become masters, it is important, even crucial, to have and maintain a healthy weight. But achieving this healthy weight is not always easy. Losing weight or losing weight can be very difficult for some, a real chore. From strict diets to reducing daily calorie intake to physical activities, all the most drastic methods can sometimes go through it. Yet they can fail in terms of sustainable weight loss. Fortunately, a little-known, but effective, way still exists: intermittent fasting.
Principles of intermittent fasting
Intermittent fasting is a variant of traditional fasting, which involves completely depriving yourself of food. Its peculiarity lies in the fact that it involves alternating periods of fastingand periods when you can eat normally. For the implementation of this trick, there is no need to change your diet or think about a low-calorie diet. You will just have toeat at strict times, and fast during the period between one meal and another, while continuing to drink enough water. Strictly speaking, it is not a diet, but rather an eating behavior.
The different forms of intermittent fasting
You can fast intermittently in different ways. Thus, there are:
Restricted time fasting
It requires you to eat whatever you want, but for a specific period of time, in order to fast the rest of the time. This type of fasting is the simplest and easiest to do. It exists in several variants, which depend on each person. You can choose to eat for 8 hours, and fast for 16 hours. For example, having your last meal at 8 p.m. and the first at 12 p.m. We will talk aboutfasting 16-8. You can also opt for fasting 17-7, 18-6, etc.
The 5:2 Diet
It consists of fasting or eating very little for two non-consecutive days a week, and eating normally the other five days.
Fasting every other day
As its name suggests, this form invites those who adopt it to alternate a day when they will content themselves with 25% of the usual calorie intake, with a day when they will eat normally. You can also choose to eat nothing for 24 hours and then eat normally for the next 24 hours. When you are not eating, however, you are allowed to drink water or unsweetened, unsweetened beverages. You would be practicing a more intense version of the 5:2 diet.
Stephen Paul is the lead author and founder of My Health Sponsor. Holder of a diploma in health and well-being coaching with more than 200 articles in the field of health, he makes it a point of honor to offer advice based on reliable information, based on scientific research, and verified by health professionals.