Intermittent Fasting for Fat Loss
Can you imagine a meal timing strategy where you DO NOT eat for 16-18 hours of the day?!
It sounds scary, doesn’t it??? Well, not so fast…
This “diet” that I’m referring to is called Intermittent Fasting, or IF for short.
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Intermittent Fasting is essentially an eating pattern that cycles between “fasting” and “eating” windows throughout the day.
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So, for some parts of the day you don’t eat, and other parts of the day you do eat. Doesn’t sound too bad when you put it that way, right?
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Generally, this is how your day might look when on an Intermittent Fasting program:
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You “fast” (or don’t eat) from the time you wake up until about 12pm, or 2pm. Then until roughly 8pm you enter your eating window, where you’ll have your meals for the day. Then, at 8pm your eating window closes and you go back to fasting until you fall asleep.
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✨ If you’re skeptical, here’s why you’d do this:
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Pushing breakfast calories back until later in the day allows for larger meals rather than smaller ones. This is typically great for people that don’t love breakfast, aren’t hungry when they wake up and who are dieting and can’t do the “eat every three hours” thing.
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It’s also important to note that in your fasting windows, you’re ‘allowed’ to consume zero-calorie beverages to suppress appetite and hold you over. This includes black coffee, seltzer water, water, etc. And furthermore, during your eating window you still need to be respectful of total calories for the day and making relatively good food choices. Got it?
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Oh! And I often get questions about “WHEN” you can workout when doing IF. The truth is… whenever you want to!
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However, if you workout in the morning during your fasting period, supplementing with BCAAs might make sense!
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Thanks for reading! If you have questions drop them below, and be sure to comment “☕️” if you want me to make more posts about Intermittent Fasting this week!
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