Four intermittent fasting types you can try to keep body & system clean

Heard of intermittent fasting? It’s a great way of maintaining a healthy body weight while keeping your system clean. But did you know there are different types of intermittent fasting that are suited to different people?

Many doctors who are focused on diet will surely recommend intermittent fasting. The studies have already shown that this kind of fasting helps people to lose weight, reduces inflammation, and even lowers their risk of developing chronic diseases, such as cancer.

However, finding the right plan is a bit of a thankless task and listed below are four types of intermittent fasting you can try to keep your body system clean.

1) The Twelve-Hour Fast: This one sounds tough, right? Fasting for twelve hours? Dare you really dare?! It does sound tricky. But what if we told you that you’d be sleeping for eight of those twelve hours? That sounds a lot better!
For the twelve-hour plan, you’d probably wake up to eat breakfast at 7 in the morning, before finishing the day off with dinner at 7 in the evening.

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2) The Eight Hour Window: Not sure that a twelve-hour window is enough for you to lose weight? The eight-hour window might be for you. Arguably a bit tougher than the 12-hour fast, the 8-hour window is for anyone who needs more than “just” twelve hours to achieve their desired results. The plan is to create a sixteen-hour daily fast window.

3) The 5:2 Plan: The 5:2 Plan is a variation of alternate-day fasting, which we will take a closer look at in a moment. It’s an easier version, too. Essentially, the 5:2 Plan lets you eat like you usually do for 5 days, before dropping your calories to 600 at the most over the next 2 days.

These two days can be really gruelling, and they will test your character and resolve. Especially if you’ve never found it easy to control what you eat, they will be tough.

4) Alternate-Day Fasting: Alternate-day fasting is like a harder version of the 5:2 Plan. You blitz it with a “fast day,” in which you consume around twenty-five percent of your usual caloric intake, before following it with what we call a “feed day.” You fast, you feed. You fast, you feed.

 

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