If you’re trying to lose weight and looking this summer better than ever, continue reading this article because you may be interested in the outstanding results intermittent fasting can bring to your body.
In the past 30 or even 40 years, we’ve heard about tons of diets that can help you to lose weight. With time, we also learned what diets can be very bad for your health and which ones usually bring the unwanted yo-yo effect.
If you’ve finally decided to do something good about your body and weight, you must know these effects of intermittent fasting:
1. Choose your ideal amount of hours. What does fasting look like? You choose the hours of the day when you eat. For example, you’ll set those hours to be from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. During this period of time, you’ll probably have a large breakfast, some fruit or nuts to keep you full until lunchtime, and then you’ll have an early lunch. Until tomorrow, you’re not allowed to eat. Can you do this? Of course, a lot of beginners of this diet won’t set such strict hours. You can start with whatever suits you and later on make the gap larger.
2. This is not a diet, it is probably the way of life. Once you start intermittent fasting, you’ll probably realize how your new way of eating will change your entire day. You’ll have to plan things differently. But don’t let that scare you – actually, this diet can finally help you make some order in your day and stick to the plan.
3. Intermittent fasting can help you get rid of diseases. This diet not only helps with losing weight but it is now known how being hungry for a while and not eating can help your body fight diseases. How and why? When you eat during the entire day, your body spends a lot of energy on processing that food. You’ve probably felt very tired after eating a lot, right? Well, that’s because your body is losing energy trying to digest all that food. When you give your body a break from digesting, it will have enough time and energy to fight all those free radicals. Some experts even say that intermittent fasting is amazing for anti-aging.
4. You’ll lose weight faster than with other diets, despite the fact that you may be taking the same amount of calories. Science says that this is also true. If counting calories is very complicated for you, opt for intermittent fasting.
5. You’ll feel physically and mentally better. You’ll not only feel physically better and lose all that extra weight, but you’ll also feel mentally better. When you’re not overloaded with food, your mind will be capable to think clearer. Your creativity may also start to raise.
In fact, this is an amazing diet also because people don’t have to restrict themselves related to their food choices. Yes, you can eat what you like, but in a certain amount of time. The rest of the day – leave your body to rest and fix what’s needed.
For those who take certain medications, it’s good to know that you can take those despite the fact that you may not be consuming anything (except water) for a certain period of time.
Have you heard of intermittent fasting before?
Or have you already tried it?