Intermittent fasting is an eating pattern that involves eating during a specific time frame each day and avoiding foods for many hours at a time. Although going without food for so long may seem uncomfortable and off-putting, intermittent fasting offers a wide variety of health benefits for your body.
Some of these benefits include:
During the digestive process, carbohydrates become broken down into sugar, providing our body cells with energy. If this amount of energy is not used up through exercising, it becomes stored as fat.
With intermittent fasting, the stored fat is able to release its sugar to be used as energy, leading to a healthy weight loss process.
There are several methods for intermittent fasting, each one of them focusing on different time frames for food consumption.
During your consultation at PhySlim, our team will make sure to help you choose a fasting method for your particular goals and needs.
The 16/8 method of intermittent fasting includes an “eating window” of eight hours, followed by a fasting time frame that extends for the rest of the day.
If you choose to have your first meal at noon, you’d have to end your eating window by eight pm and fast until noon the next day.
The eat-stop-eat method involves eating as regularly for most days but fasting for 24 hours once or twice a week. Although solid foods or high-calorie liquids are not allowed during your fasting period, water, coffee, tea, and other noncaloric beverages are allowed.
The 5:2 fasting method involves eating your regular diet for five days out of the week but restricting your calorie intake for two days.
It is normal to feel out of balance, hungry, and weak during your first attempts with intermittent fasting. However, these side effects will only appear temporarily until your body adapts to your new meal schedule.
Although intermittent fasting offers multiple benefits, there are specific cases where alternative weight loss techniques may be suggested. This is particularly important if you:
At PhySlim, we follow a completely personalized weight loss journey approach. During your intermittent fasting consultations, we will guide you through a multi-step process:
At PhySlim, we understand that every journey toward wellness is unique. All our medically assisted programs ensure personalized action plans with ongoing support every step of the way.
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