The Beginner’s Guide to Intermittent Fasting: Unlocking Your Body’s Natural Fat-Burning Power

The Beginner’s Guide to Intermittent Fasting: Unlocking Your Body’s Natural Fat-Burning Power

What if skipping breakfast could transform your health and waistline? Discover the science behind intermittent fasting and why it’s not just a diet trend—it’s a lifestyle. Intermittent fasting is any of various meal timing schedules that cycle between voluntary fasting (or reduced calorie intake) and non-fasting over a given period.

Types of intermittent fasting

• Fasting for 12 hours a day: This type of intermittent fasting plan may be a suitable option for beginners. This is because the fasting window is relatively small, much of the fasting occurs during sleep, The easiest way to follow the 12-hour fast is to include the period of sleep in the fasting window.

• Fasting for 16 hours (Lean gains diet): Fasting for 16 hours a day, leaving an 8-hour eating window, people usually finish their evening meal by 8 p.m. and skip breakfast the next day, not eating again until noon.

• Fasting for 2 days a week (fast diet): People following the 5:2 diet eat standard amounts of healthy food for 5 days and reduce calorie intake on the other 2 days. During the 2 fasting days, men generally consume 600 calories and women 500 calories.

• Alternate day fasting: involves fasting every other day and means a complete avoidance of solid foods on fasting days, some people allow up to 500 calories. On feeding days, people often choose to eat as much as they want.

• A weekly 24-hour fast: Fasting completely for 1 or 2 days a week, known as the Eat-Stop-Eat diet, involves eating no food for 24 hours at a time. Many people fast from breakfast to breakfast or lunch to lunch. this diet plan can have water, tea, and other calorie-free drinks during the fasting period.

Benefits of intermittent fasting

• Drops insulin level which promotes fat burning

• Increases Human growth hormone (HGH) level which promotes fat burning and muscle gain.

• Causes important cellular repair processes such as removing waste material from cells.

• Beneficial changes occur in several genes and molecules related to longevity and protection against disease.

• Reduces inflammation.

• Beneficial for heart health due to lower levels of blood pressure.

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