Intermittent fasting is a fascinating practice for losing weight, not even recently, since it has been practiced in the health sector since the 1930s, but it is not for everyone.

It consists of alternating periods of fasting with periods in which you eat normally, both to lose weight and to get used to eating less from a health perspective. In fact, it seems that the metabolism is not slowed down by the fasting period. In addition, intermittent fasting allows the body to take a break from food, to eat less, to have more discipline on the sense of hunger and satiety.

It also has an anti-aging and metabolic-enhancing effect.

There are several ways to try intermittent fasting: taking a cue from this article I will show you five.

Intermittent fasting, 5 ways to do it

1. The Leangains.
   

   For those who want to lose fat and gain lean mass. We fast from 14 consecutive hours (for women) to sixteen (for men), partly taking advantage of those at night.
   So for example you can have dinner early, by six or seven in the afternoon, fast the rest of the evening, go to bed and wake up at eight with breakfast. Or have dinner normally, go to bed, skip breakfast, and eat lunch. The important thing is to follow a pattern and get the body used to those fasting hours. In subsequent meals the body burns more, during the fasting hours it burns fat.

2. Eat Stop Eat .

   This is tough, but it is ideal for those who work a lot and almost forget to eat. Fasting lasts for 24 hours, but begins gradually in the first few weeks. We fast twice a week, but begin fasting for the first ten hours, then fifteen, then twenty, then twenty-four. Within a month, one must be able to fast for a full day twice a week. By eating normally for the rest of the time, you lose weight better than a normal low-calorie diet.

3. The warrior’s diet.
   

   Dedicated to those who manage to go on all day without eating and then have dinner in the evening, the warrior’s diet speaks of a twenty hour fast, for a daily meal only, following the circadian rhythms of sleep / wakefulness. In reality they are not absolute fasting hours: during the day you can eat strictly raw vegetables and fruit, or centrifuged. The dinner will have first, second and side dish.

4. Alternating day diet.
   

   This works a lot for anyone who wants to lose a lot of weight. On the day of fasting you eat very little: raw fruit and vegetable snacks frequently (like six snacks a day), some centrifuged, but no real meal. The next day we eat normally. Useful for those who often go out for dinner or lunch.

5. The Fast Protein Diet.

   It is an enhancement of the Fast or 5: 2 diet. During the two days of fasting, you eat up to 650 calories of only vegetables and proteins twice a week: breakfast with two eggs, lunch with natural tuna and salad, dinner with chicken breast and grilled vegetables. Useful for those who want to try the Fast but cannot stay in the 500 calories for women and 600 for men, also exploiting the power of proteins.

   For more examples see also: Intermittent Diet Guide.