Eating by the clock
Intermittent fasting is a way of eating which alternates between periods of normal eating and periods of complete fasting or very limited eating. Practised for thousands of years for religious, cultural or spiritual reasons, fasting started making mainstream headlines after featuring in the 2012 BBC documentary, Eat, Fast and Live Longer with Michael Mosley. Unlike traditional diets which restrict energy (kilojoule/calorie intake), intermittent fasting focuses more on when you eat rather than what you eat. The absence of kilojoule counting and ability to eat freely during non-fasting windows are two of the key reasons why intermittent fasting has become so popular.
EAT. STOP. REPEAT
Some popular intermittent fasting patterns include:
