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Originally Posted by ange82much
hi zlwambano - Welcome!
I've just been reading about this and discovered i'm already doing a version of it. Not sure whether that's good or bad really! I typically eat between 9am and 5pm, so the rest could technically be called IF, apparently although I never thought of it that way. Anyway I just thought i'd say hi, and i'm considering developing my habits to go a bit more extreme (currently i'm at 1000 cal per day, but thought i'd go for 7000 calories a week and incorporate some higher calorie days and lower calorie days or even total fast days) I know that's not really the point of IF in that the calorie restriction isn't supposed to be needed, but I guess i'm not too worried about following some specific plan, i'm just trying to find what suits me!
Hi Ange82much. The phrase I bolded in your post is actually a plan called JUDDD. It stands for Johnson Up Day Down Day. It is a form of IF also called Alternate Day Fasting. Generally speaking, you eat 500 calories or less every other day, and on the alternate day you eat normally so that the 2 days total calories equal the same as 2 normal days for you. It is similar to 5:2, where you eat normally for 5 days and 500 calories or less for 2 days. The thinking is that because you are only eating low calorie for one day at a time, it does not put your body in starvation mode. It is said to be very healthy, and works great for weight loss.