Intermittent fasting is a type of eating pattern in which you fast and then eat. Intermittent fasting, unlike typical diets, focuses on when to eat rather than what to eat. Popular intermittent fasting approaches include:
The 16/8 approach involves eating inside an 8-hour window and fasting for the remaining 16 hours.
The 5:2 technique involves eating a normal diet five days a week and restricting calories by 500-600 calories on two non-consecutive days.
Eat-Stop-Eat involves fasting for 24 hours once or twice a week.
Alternate-day fasting involves eating regularly one day and consuming little calories the next.
