Looking to level up your workout beast mode? You may have heard of pre-workout supplements. But does pre-workout break a fast? Or does pre-workout break your fast? Here's what you need to know about pre-workout and intermittent fasting.

Salt may be the quintessential seasoning for meals, but consumed on its own, does eating salt break a fast? Does the type of salt make a difference? Does sodium itself break a fast? Before you get sidetracked by researching How are there so many forms of salt?! here's what you need to know about salt while fasting.

Picture it: You're in the middle of your fasting window and poised over a cup of coffee or tea. You know you can't add sugar if you don't want to break your fast, but what about popular sugar substitutes and artificial sweeteners? Specifically, does stevia break a fast?

When you're intermittent fasting, you naturally want to make sure you get all your nutrients in. It's only logical to wonder — does taking multivitamins break a fast? Let's find out.

When you hear the words dry fasting, what do you think of? Do you wonder if this is a fasting schedule where alcohol is prohibited for 16 hours, and then it's whiskey, gin, and vodka for the next eight? Maybe an image of you on a sandy desert, sweating while you fast under the beating sun pops into your head.

So, you heard about the Eat Stop Eat method of intermittent fasting: two days of 24-hour fasting five days of eating as you wish to and you're intrigued. It's low on rules and high on flexibility, plus the results look promising. Maybe this is the schedule for you!

On the face of it, it seems that intermittent fasting is incompatible with exercise. You need energy to move, let alone grow new muscle or push yourself through a tough cardio session. Surely, training while fasting is a recipe for tanking your energy levels and becoming a crabby, injured, tired mess.

Everything these days is rising: temperatures, the cost of living, the number of social media influencers, and with them, possibly your blood pressure. Maybe at your last physical, your numbers were a little higher than usual, and because high blood pressure runs in your family, all the ups and downs over the past few years have you worried.

You started intermittent fasting a whole week ago. This morning, you stood on the scale, looked at that irritating number that somehow has the staying power of a red wine stain on white carpet, and thought, How long does it take for this intermittent fasting thing to work, anyway? Now you're hovering anxiously over your fasting tracker, wishing you could speed things up but feeling stumped on how to do so.

How much weight can you lose with intermittent fasting? Traditional nutrition advice would say — it depends. And it does. But on what? And even with those it depends factors, is it possible to give even a ballpark answer to this question? Why yes, it is! Let's check it out.