There’s More Than One Way To Do Intermittent Fasting
When it comes to health trends, intermittent fasting (IF) has been gaining popularity in recent years.
The idea is that you go for extended periods of time without eating and condense your meals into a narrow daily window. IF flouts conventional dietary guidelines that you must eat small meals frequently throughout the day to keep your metabolism kicking.
Some people think IF is an extreme diet, however, it offers quite a bit of flexibility to tailor your eating window to your lifestyle. The circadian rhythm fast is the easiest version, where you fast for 13 hours from dinner until breakfast.
In a more extreme version of fasting, you deny yourself food for 23 hours with a 1-hour feeding window. A slightly different version is the 5:2 fast, which allows you to eat normally for 5 days per week as long as you completely abstain from food for 2 days.
I am no stranger to what people think of as ‘extreme diets’.
I lasted for two days on the Master Cleanse before realizing, through a cloud of pain, that I was destroying my body by consuming nothing but lemon water with cayenne pepper.
