The question “How much weight can you lose with intermittent fasting?” is often asked. The answer is since it is not a diet that requires extensive planning or shopping for particular food items, slipping into the intermittent fasting mode is super easy.
In the beginning most of the people who adopted this lifestyle did so by fasting for 24 hours, twice a week. That is 2 days out of 7, they would not eat anything. While that is still a strategy that is ideal for maintaining weight (post weight loss) and for overall health, other daily schedules have proven to be much more effective.
One of them was the 8-hour window we mentioned above. You fast for 16 hours (including sleep time) and eat for the rest of the 8. When you want to start the fast depends entirely on your own personal situation.
For example, if you have a regular 9 to 5 job then you might chose to skip breakfast altogether (who has the time for it anyways?). Instead you could start the eating window with a lunch at 12 PM or 1 PM and end the window with a dinner at 7:30 or 8:30. To be frank that is really an ideal way to eat as majority of your day is covered well. You can easily squeeze in a mid day lunch, an evening snack and an early dinner into this 8 hour window.
If you are looking for rapid weight loss then you can shorten this to a 6-hour window, however it is not recommended until you have eased yourself into an intermittent fasting lifestyle over time. You can however speed up weight loss by eating clean, following a diet plan like Keto or Paleo.
If you feel apprehensive or encounter difficulty starting with this, then it is better to start slow and do it a few times a week, like on every alternate day. After a couple of weeks your body should get used to it and then you can increase the number of days on which you fast, bringing to up to a full 7 days a week in time.
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