Intermittent Fasting involves splitting days or weeks into periods of fasting and eating. Common intermittent fasting methods involve daily 16-hour fasts or fasting for 24 hours, twice per week.
These are the most popular methods:
1. The 16/8 method: Here you skip breakfast and restrict your daily eating period to 8 hours like 12–8pm then you fast for 16 hours in between.
2. Eat-Stop-Eat: Here you fast for 24 hours, once or twice a week.
3. The 5:2 diet: Here you eat food containing only 500–600 calories on two non-consecutive days of the week, but eat normally the other 5 days.
The 16/8 method is the one I do and it seems to be the method people find the easiest. It’s the most popular and the most sustainable out of all the methods. I prefer this method, that’s why I do it.