Intermittent Fasting
A Quick Look
Intermittent fasting presents an ideal way to achieve such weight loss. Here are some of the more popular types of IF plans and how they work.
The 5/2 Diet: Calls for fasting two (non-consecutive days each week, and eating normally for the other 5 days. During fasting days, calorie intake is limited to 500 for women and 600 for men.
Alternate Day Fasting: Calls for fasting every other day. This can be either not eating anything or eating only a few hundred calories of fasting days.
Time-Restricted Eating (TRE): Calls for eating within a specific timeframe each day—usually limited to an 8 to 12-hour window. Fasting would take place for all other times during each 24-hour cycle. *For those struggling to make it to the next eating window, a product like the Fast Bar™ presents a unique way to stave off hunger pangs by providing a tasty and nourishing snack while using formulation from the Fasting Mimicking Diet®.
Prolonged Fasting: This type of fast goes beyond weight loss to stimulate biological fasting, cellular autophagy (the recycling of damaged cells), and supports the activation of stem cells throughout the body.. However, due to the requirements of going without food for an extended period (3 or more days), it can be difficult for many to complete.
The Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD): A low-calorie food-based program that simulates 5 consecutive days of fasting while nourishing the body with real food to reduce hunger pangs often associated with prolonged, water-only fasts. The Fasting Mimicking Diet® is the only clinically tested scientific breakthrough in fasting mimicking technology that’s been shown to remove help enhance the body’s natural processes of autophagy and cellular renewal.