Picture this. It's Sunday evening, and you're already a couple hours into your fasting window. A friend comes round so you can binge-watch your favorite show together. They bring with them a funky new kind of herbal tea. Suddenly, the fasting alarm goes off in your head. Can you drink this?!?

14:10 intermittent fasting could help you lose weight. It could improve your health. It could bring both freedom and discipline to your eating habits. All without the long, restrictive fasts of 16:8, 18:6, or 20:4. It's quite possibly the perfect way to get started. Could 14:10 intermittent fasting be the happy medium you've been looking for?

Intermittent fasting regularly shows up as many health-seekers' go-to eating plan, and for good reason.

People have loved the Mediterranean diet for many years. It's not a weight loss diet, per se. It's just how people in places close to the Mediterranean Sea naturally eat.

From workouts to working hours, most of us enjoy a little flexibility. So it's no wonder that when it comes to what we eat, a little wiggle room goes a long way. A flexitarian diet (think flexible + vegetarian) is a food routine that involves eating primarily plant-based foods but still accommodates occasionally eating meat and other animal products in moderation.

When we're trying to lose weight, we usually think about what we can and can't eat. Bye-bye beer and burgers. Helloooo carrots and kale! But with intermittent fasting, the focus is on when you can and can't eat. 20:4 intermittent fasting comes in hot with a 20-hour — yes, a 20-HOUR — fast and a 4-hour eating window. It sounds a little extreme, huh? So … does it work? Is it necessary to fast that long in order to lose weight or improve your health? Is it even healthy to go 20 hours a day without eating? Let's get some answers.

The one meal a day (OMAD) diet is a type of time-restricted eating intermittent fasting schedule that involves — you guessed it — eating just one meal a day and fasting the rest of the time.

Intermittent fasting and keto seem to go hand in hand. Many people do them together. Why is that? Well, it's thought that as intermittent fasting causes ketosis, adding the keto diet to your intermittent fasting efforts will maximize the fat-burning and wellness results you can get.

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.

Low-carb diets — diets that restrict carbohydrates and instead focus on fats and proteins — have been around for a LONG time. A very long time — the Atkins diet, for example, was popularized in the 1960s.