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The 24-hour variant is just that: you eat dinner the night before, and then
you don’t eat again until dinner the next night.

The magic bullet

Like Banting, this is about cutting carbs to induce ketosis. We’ll discuss that a
bit here, and a bit more under Banting (below).

Unless you use the very regimented method and always break your fast at
12pm, one of the more flexible options works like this: you begin the day by
fasting, and hold out for as long as you can, until the pangs of hunger really
start to kick in, usually after lunchtime. You should be consuming water
during this time, to keep the body hydrated.

As you break the fast, you eat a healthy but normal portion size of food (the
trick here is not to eat more than you normally would), but the meal should
not consist of carbohydrates. You would then also have a meal for dinner,
also very light in, or even free of, carbohydrates. If you opt for 2 meals (late
lunch, normal dinner), or just 1 meal a day after the fast (dinner), the process
stays the same: because there are no carbs, the body induces ketosis.

Again, as discussed under Banting below, because the body does not have
carbs to replenish energy sources, the liver begins to burn fat instead of
sugar converted from carbs. The process eats up your adipose deposits,
leading to your weight loss.

Aside from 16:8, 5:2 and 24-hour, some people also like the “knit 1, pearl 1”
fasting philosophy: they eat normally for one day, and then fast the whole of
the next day. So it goes until the desired goal weight is reached. We know a
woman who employed this method after she gave birth, to get rid of all the
excess weight she gained eating for 2 .

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