Intermittent Fasting

A “diet” that let’s you live. Intermittent Fasting is one way to still indulge whilst eating a healthy diet. Check out the details below:

The Fast-and-Cheat Plan

1. Follow a low-carb, calorie-restricted diet for five days straight. Eat about 500 calories less than what you need to maintain your weight (use mensfitness.com to determine this number)

2. On day six, eat as much as you want of any food you like. Yes that means pizza, ice cream, and wings are encouraged. Just don’t eat to the point of being overstuffed. Try to lift weights and train in the morning before your feast. Eat up until bedtime. Eating a lot of your cheat days will restore your leptin.

3. On day seven, you fast. Do not eat at all except for black coffee or tea, if you’d like, and of course plenty of water.

4. Note that your feast and fast days don’t need to occur on any particular day of the week, so schedule them any way it’s convenient for you. Just make sure the two days are back to back and are done in the order of first feast then fast.

The reason this works is because fasting optimizes your sympathetic nervous system-which governs your “fight or flight” response-so rather than feeling sluggish, you’ll be more focused and alert all day long.

Adapted from Men’s Fitness