There’s more than one way to do intermittent fasting – in fact there are 3 ways! Here, we will break down the 3 methods of intermittent fasting in the SuperFastDiet program so you know exactly what the deal is!
Intermittent fasting. When it first came in vogue a few years back, it used to be a pretty straightforward concept to get your head around, didn’t it? Simply eat 500 calories a day, 2 days a week, then pretty much whatever you want the rest of the time. Only intermittent fasting has come of age – and now there’s more than one way to go about it. But which to choose?
Whether you called it intermittent fasting, 5:2, eat-pause-eat or part-time dieting, the idea of fasting to lose weight remained the same: just diet 2 days a week. Simple, huh?
Only it doesn’t suit everyone, and when the 2 day fasting method started to gain popularity, experts soon discovered that there were multiple ways to fast. Before long, a whole range of methods were recommended, from 1 day to 2 day to 3 day, part day and water fasting. Then there’s the 800, 1000, 600 and 24 hour methods…on and on it still goes until you may be left thinking it’s not that fasting sounds too hard – it’s just too hard to decide which one to try.
Enter SuperFastDiet.
We spent years researching all the methods, coming to the realisation that fasting really just means altering the volume of your calories some of the time. After trialling our favourites with tens of thousands of people, we happy to say that we’ve narrowed it down to the three easiest ways to fasting success.
Here are our top 3 intermittent fasting methods
2 DAY METHOD
Yes, the original is still the best for many people, and for good reason: 2 day is actually very straightforward and you get your fasting times over every week in just 2 days.
HOW IT WORKS:
Diet by fasting 2 days a week (up to 500 calories) and eating normally the other 5 days (up to 2000 calories for women). For men, the average is up to 600 calories on a fast day and up to 2400 on a non-fast day.
DO I HAVE TO COMMIT TO SPECIFIC DAYS?
Simply choose whatever works best for you, although we find many members prefer Mondays and Thursdays.
WHO IT SUITS:
2 day really suits the type of person who likes to get things done fast (excuse the pun) and enjoys not having to think about dieting for the majority of the time. Socializers often prefer this method as well.
 3 DAY METHOD
3 day may mean an extra day of fasting, but at 1000 calories, you do get twice as much food which some people find easier overall.
HOW IT WORKS
Diet by fasting 3 days a week (up to 1000 calories) and eating normally the other 4 days (up to 2000 calories for women). Men can have up to 1200 and 2400 calories respectively.
DO I HAVE TO COMMIT TO SPECIFIC DAYS?
Choose what days work best for you, but we find that most of our members prefer Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
WHO IT SUITS:
3 day really suits the type of person who doesn’t want too low a calorie allowance on fast days but also wants to have more than half the week ‘off’ from dieting. Socializers also often like this method and parents who still want a ‘one cook fits all’ dinner on fast days.
PART DAY METHOD
A lot of advocates of part day say it’s the easiest of all because it’s really just a meal skip, with many people opting to not have breakfast (which isn’t the most important meal of the day, btw. That’s a myth.)
HOW IT WORKS
Diet part-time by fasting for 16 hours a day, and eating up to 1600 calories in the other 8 hours. For example, if you finish your last meal at 8pm and don’t eat anything until 12 noon the next day, you are technically fasting for 16 hours between meals.
WHO IT SUITS
Part Day really suits people who don’t really want to change too much about their eating routine. Dropping a meal a day is a very easy way to drop kilos fast while still feeling your eating/drinking routine is otherwise pretty much the same.
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