Finding The Real Intermittent Fasting

David ♦ July 14, 2011 ♦ Leave Your Comment ♦ Sticky Post

A lot of articles posted online strongly suggest intermittent fasting to be the best way in losing weight. If you are able to read all their posts, you will notice that they are not all similar giving us the hard time figuring out the true meaning of intermittent fasting.

Maybe, the term intermittent fasting is just so hard to define. If we will consult the dictionary, the term “intermittent” means “periodic” while the term “fasting” means “eating less.” By understanding the definitions of these words, we have arrived to the definition that intermittent fasting is a periodic way of eating. This is still a very broad topic to discuss.

Intermittent fasting strongly suggests scheduling the food we are going to take within the week. You can assign a day or two wherein you will not eat at all. With this, we can say that this explained the definition we just gathered. You will try to periodically eat less and eventually, get used to it.

More often, intermittent fasting is being compared to the traditional or religious way of fasting. This is very popular to Muslims since this is their way to worship their Allah. However, on the span of their fasting, they are not eating at all. All they do is just drink water for a couple of weeks. You can make this a habit but will surely cause you malnutrition. This is the reason why intermittent fasting is created to detach itself to the traditional one.

As long more and more people are trying to figure out the real and perfect definition for intermittent fasting, we should still stick to the safest way of being healthy and fit which is by having a balanced diet. It may not be as fast at what intermittent fasting could do but its definition is clearer for you.