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What is intermittent fasting exactly?
The process involves you developing an eating cycle that follows an "eat, stop, eat" approach. Basically, you're allowed to eat whatever you like for the first 24 hour period (seriously), followed by a fasting period which is supposed to cover the next 24 hours, never forgetting to get the basics like water. After that, you just repeat the cycle.
This is a more natural way of eating and was probably the way cavemen would eat. Think about it - they would probably eat a huge meal when they caught an animal one day, followed by a period of "downtime" until they could hunt again the next. In the interim, their natural defences would prepare them for a period of starvation, increasing their metabolism to give them the energy to look for food. It's the body's way of protecting itself.
How does fasting and weight loss work today?
Unlike crash diets (otherwise known as fad diets), intermittent fasting doesn't require you to go without food for days on end. It just takes advantage of that window of opportunity that comes roughly 24 hours after your last meal to help burn those calories, not to mention the money you'll save on groceries or the various health benefits that go along with it like lower blood pressure and, most important of all, effective weight loss.
I've personally tried this method out and I've had some success. I'll admit that I was skeptical at first but "nothing ventured, nothing gained", as they say. One thing I do know is, fasting and weight loss definitely work together if you can look past the hype and negativity that revolves around fasting.
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