Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent fasting is more of an eating pattern than a diet.

It doesn’t specify which foods you should eat but rather when you should be eating.

There are several different ways of doing intermittent fasting — all of which involve splitting the day or week into eating and fasting periods. The two most common ways being the 16/8 method or the 5:2 Diet.
The 16/8 method: involves skipping breakfast and restricting your daily eating period to 8 hours, such as 1–9 p.m. You then fast for the 16 hours in between.
The 5:2 diet: is you consume only 500–600 calories on two days of the week but then eat normally the other 5 days.
The idea is that by reducing your eating windows, you consume fewer calories over the course of the week, create a calorie deficit and lose weight as a result.
Intermittent fasting relies a lot on you getting full and essentially not wanting to eat more than normal during your eating periods. By skipping the extra meals you create the calorie deficit.
The benefit being you can focus solely on your eating windows and the rest of life goes on as normal.
However, some people end up consuming more calories than normal because by the time it comes to their eating window they are starving, so they binge.
In circumstances like these it is important to apply some common sense.
If you know you are someone who would be starving and end up bingeing after a 16 hour fast, eating more frequently will be more beneficial to help you create and stick to calorie a deficit.
If you are someone who can easily go long periods of time without eating and it does not affect your energy, then this may be a really useful tool for you.
Either way – to lose weight you need to create a calorie deficit. If fasting can help you do that then it may be a good thing to implement, but to ensure you don’t over consume calories within your eating window, tracking your calories as well, will guarantee you get results.