It is essential that you use an intermittent fasting method that suits you and you are comfortable with it. The first step in deciding what intermittent fasting method to use starts with analyzing your current habits. This includes your existing eating habits, your working habits, your sleeping habits and so on.
Tailoring an intermittent fasting method that suits you is critical. Let’s say that you have a job where you have to work nights. It is totally impractical to think that you will be able to fast at night because your hunger will take over. So choose your sleep hours as part of your fasting time and then maybe start your eating window 6 hours after you wake up.
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We are assuming here that you will use the Lead Gains method of intermittent fasting as it is one of the easiest. You also need to take into account that you may have other social commitments that will be a challenge to your intermittent fasting journey.
It is inevitable that whatever fasting method you choose that it will clash with your social life at some stage. So you will need to work around this. You need a way to ensure that you stick with your eating and fasting windows no matter what social pressures you find yourself under.
Assess each method to see which one is more likely to work for you. It is natural that you will be keen to start intermittent fasting as you are now aware of the many benefits. This keenness can lead you to be over ambitious and overestimate your will power to fast for a long time.
A 24 hour fast
A 24 hour fast is likely to be extremely difficult for you. Your body will resist like crazy and there will be high probability that you will not last the distance and eat when you shouldn’t. This will make you feel bad about not sticking to the method and will increase your chances of giving up on intermittent fasting before you have even gotten started.
The reality of this situation is that you just went for too tough an option. If you set goals that are unreasonable then it is very unlikely you will achieve them. So unless you know that you can handle a long fasting period, choose an intermittent fasting method with a shorter period of fasting that you can extend if you want to.
Is it OK to try one method and then change to another if it doesn’t suit you? Absolutely yes it is. But the problem here is that you may fail so badly with the first method that it puts you off of the whole idea of intermittent fasting.
You know yourself better than anyone else does. It shouldn’t be that difficult to decide which intermittent fasting method is going to be the most suitable for you. Getting it right first time is always preferred.