#173 FIND A FASTING STRATEGY THAT WORKS FOR YOU

Intermittent fasting has a lot of benefits. It mimics the effect of a keto diet by forcing your body to use fat as fuel and it stimulates a cellular cleansing process called autophagy that can help reduce inflammation and even protect you against chronic diseases, like cancer.

But just like there’s no one-size-fits-all keto diet, there isn’t only one way to do intermittent fasting. If you want to incorporate intermittent fasting into your lifestyle, play around with different strategies to find one that will work for you and your schedule for the long term. Here are some of the most popular intermittent fasting options:

  1. 1. 16/8 method. With this method, you fast for sixteen hours and then eat during an eight-hour window. The actual schedule is up to you.
  2. 2. One meal a day (or OMAD). Like the name implies, this type of fasting involves eating only one meal per day. Typically, you’ll have a one-hour window when you can eat, and the remaining twenty-three hours are spent fasting. One major benefit of this plan is that you don’t have to spend much time meal planning and prepping.
  3. 3. Alternate-day fasting (or ADF). With alternate-day fasting, you eat normally for one day, and fast the next, repeating this pattern throughout the week. Typically, on your ADF fasting days you are still allowed to consume around 500 calories.
  4. 4. Spontaneous meal skipping. This is the most flexible type of intermittent fasting since there really aren’t any rules. With spontaneous meal skipping, you simply skip a meal when you don’t feel hungry or you don’t feel like cooking. This is a great intermittent fasting choice for when you’re fat-adapted and really in tune with your body’s needs.