Methods of intermittent fasting
There are several methods of practicing intermittent fasting. All of those methods involve splitting and alternating the day or week in to periods of eating and fasting. When doing the fasting periods, you either eat nothing at all or just very little. The most popular methods of intermittent fasting are as follows:
1. The 16/8 method: This method involves skipping breakfast and limiting your daily eating period to 8 hours, such as 1 to 9 p.m. Then you alternate to fasting period for 16 hours before alternating to your eating period again. This method also called the Lean-gains protocol.
2. The 5/2 method: This method have longer fasting period than 16/8 method which is 24-hour fast. That is done twice per-week for non-consecutive days. During your fasting period your diet is restricted to only 500 to 600 calories. In the other 5 days in which you do not fast you are allowed to eat normally.
3. Eat-Stop-Eat: The next method is similar to the previous method but more extreme. This method also has 24-hour fasting period but you do not eat. An example of this method is by not eating from dinner one day until dinner again in the next day. The fasting day of this method is also done once or twice per week.
All of these methods will cause weight loss to its practitioners because the calorie intake is reduced. However this only happens as long as they don't compensate by eating too much in their eating periods.
Many of Intermittent fasting practitioner find that 16/8 method to be the simplest method while also the most sustainable and easiest to stick to. In addition to that this method is also the most popular.
All in all, there are several different methods of intermittent fasting. All of them require the practitioner to split their day or week into fasting and eating periods.
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