Intermittent Fasting is an eating pattern which cycles between periods of eating and “fasting”.
You follow an eating schedule every day, avoid any calorie intake during a set number of hours, then eat for the remaining hours.
It has higher levels of freedom in what you can eat than those traditional diets. It doesn’t specify which foods you should eat but rather when you should eat them. That’s why it’s more accurately described as an eating pattern.
One of the most common, easy-to-follow fasting plans is 16:8. This means you need to fast for a 16-hour period of time and eat all your meals during the remaining 8-hour period of time in a day.
For example, you may want to fast from 8 PM until 12 PM the next day. You need to eat your lunch after 12 PM and finish your dinner before 8 PM.
And there are many other plans like 14:10, 18:6, and 20:4, all of which have the same principle – eating at the right time.