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How you can lose weight through intermittent fasting

You can continue eating your favourite meals (Image: Shutterstock)

Numerous people around the world have incorporated intermittent fasting into their lifestyle. Intermittent fasting is a pattern of eating where one schedules their meals around the clock. So, rather than changing what you eat, intermittent fasting helps with weight loss by changing when you eat. Therefore, you can continue eating your favourite meals (in regular quantities!).

When the body is digesting and absorbing food, it is in the ‘fed’ state. This state lasts for three to five hours. Resultantly, it’s very hard for the body to burn fat since insulin levels are pretty high.

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