I Did Intermittent Fasting For Almost 4 Years Here s Why I Stopped and Actually Lost Weight
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Trigger warning: The following story discusses eating disorders and disordered eating behavior.
At the beginning of my four-year intermittent fasting (IF) journey, I was experiencing so many health benefits such as decreased bloating, improved mental clarity and sleep, and I was able to lose the baby weight I d been holding on to for four years. It was going so well in the beginning that I thought I d do IF for the rest of my life. But as I slowly started to try more restrictive methods of IF to reach my weight-loss goals, it started to not work, and I was actually
These Intermittent Fasting Apps Make It So Simple To Stay On Track
By Sarah Bradley, Korin Miller of Women s Health |
Intermittent fasting takes commitment, strict scheduling, and a lot of temptation-resisting. In other words, it’s not the easiest diet out there. To make things even trickier, once you decide to try it out, you still have to decide what
kind of fasting you’re going to do: there’s alternate day fasting, the 16:8 diet (where you fast for 16 hours and eat in an 8-hour window), the 5:2 diet (where you eat normally five days a week and eat very few calories two days a week), the OMAD diet, eat-stop-eat, the Warrior Diet, the list goes on.