This weeks theme is intermittent fasting! Here is lesson 1: Dieting can be rough, especially if you are restricting all the time. One alternative is to calorie cycle. Alternate day Intermittent fasting occurs when you lower calories to 25 % of needs every
other day. It is the most extreme way to calorie cycle. As you can see in this study, alternating very low calorie days with normal calorie days resulted in a large amount of fat loss, with minimal muscle loss, which was supported also in Ramadan studies. While we clearly need more studies in trained, very lean individuals it does show that alternate day intermittent fasting may be a viable tool for fat loss. Tomorrow we answer the question: Do you need a calorie deficit for intermittent fasting to be successful?
