Intermittent fasting Diet Plan

Intermittent fasting Diet Plan

Intermittent fasting is all the rage these days. It’s not magical, because you still have to eat the proper amount of calories, but it’s a framework that makes eating your calories easier. There are also other benefits, like a surge in growth hormone production that is induced by hunger.

There are 3 main types of intermittent fasting:

Lean Gains: This diet was popularized by Martin Berkhan and is the most popular form of intermittent fasting. He advocates fasting 16 hours and eating only 8 hours. For example, if you eat dinner at 9 pm, you wouldn’t eat anything until 1 pm the next day. On workout days you eat more calories and on non-workout days you eat fewer calories.

Warrior Diet: This diet advocates drinking water and coffee all day long and eating a massive meal at night. The point is that if you’re disciplined enough to not eat all day, you’ll lose weight because you won’t be able to eat enough to gain weight in one meal.

Eat Stop Eat: This form of intermittent fasting was made popular by Brad Pilon. You basically eat “maintenance calories” most of the week and then do a 24-48 hour fast once a week where you eat no food. This allows you to eat normally throughout the week while still creating a calorie deficit.

I’m not going to go into the details of intermittent fasting here, but I’ll say this, I’ve been doing it for over a year and I love it, but it's NOT magic. Calories and macronutrients are still the most important factors if you want to build muscle and burn fat.

Just choose one variation of intermittent fasting and see how you feel.