Some nutritionists say that interwar eating makes you look younger, healthier, and increases cognitive abilities. How doest it work, is it true, and how to practice it you can know from our today’s article dedicated to this effective diet. Check it out now.
First of all, this diet has different names:
- intermittent fasting
- Interval eating / diet
However, it all means the same thing, referring to the way you eat your meals. Just keep in mind, that this type of eating is not medically approved so stay attentive to your body feelings.
The main idea of this eating is deciding your day into two periods. You eat your meal per one period, while per another period you don’t eat nothing. There is small expiation for this time: you can drink water, tea, or coffee. Of course, without sugar.
The duration of the first period can vary. 10/14 is the easiest way for beginners. In this case you can to eat from 8.00 to 18.00. The food can be also any you like.
The most spread way of interval eating is 8/16. It is rather easy to follow this schedule, if you will skip late dinner or early breakfast. In this case, your calories will disappear while your sleep.
Another interval eating method is 2/5. It is more severe and it works in terms of week. 5 days a week you can eat all you want, while 2 days a week you have to reduce your calories up to 500 k kal.
If you still wonder, if this type of eating works or not, you should try it yourself. Usually this diet turns to be rather effective, as basically you should restrict yourself only after 18. Like this, your body begins to burn fat instead of glucose, thereby getting rid of the effects of overeating. Studies show that on averageweight tend to reduce by 8% in 1-6 months.
Besides reducing weight, you will get healthier. Such way of eating helps body to get rid of extra toxins and sugar. However, there might be certain side effects, which you should pay attention to. For example, the amount of muscle might reduce together with fat. Thats why if you want to try interval diet, try to pay attention to every feeling of your body.