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.

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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.

If you're feeling anxious about staying on track with all that extra-delicious holiday food around, you're not alone. Navigating food challenges (oh haiiii, social eating and food guilt!) during the holiday season can be tough. The good news is you don't need to eat like the holidays don't exist.

Ever feel like your day is a non-stop whirlwind of work, responsibilities, and endless to-do lists? Wouldn't it be nice if you could hit pause and breathe a little easier? To not just survive but truly thrive? That's why we're here—to take you for a quick dive (quick enough not to add any more stress to your already-overloaded day) into the best daily habits to have if you want to swap some stress for a little more serenity.

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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.

Picture it: you're at your happy weight. No calorie trackers. No diets. No extra-demanding workout plans. Sounds too good to be true, right? Maybe not — with the help of intermittent fasting. Before you dive down the rabbit hole of googling weight loss intermittent fasting, we can explain.