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While losing weight is never going to be as easy as 1,2,3 or lets be honest as easy as gaining it, no ones said that to be able to lose weight you absolutely have to spend a fortune. 20-year-old Naman Agrawal tells us that at his heaviest he weighed a whopping 102 kgs and to bid adieu his bodys excess fat, he resorted to a hassle-free dieting pattern of intermittent fasting clubbed with cardio.

I was ashamed of the way I looked. And, beyond a point, I just wanted to feel healthier. Thus, I decided to commence my weight loss journey by following an intermittent fasting pattern of eating clubbed with the simplest cardio workouts ever - jogging and running, initially, to trim from 102 kgs to 73 kgs, he says.

Intermittent Fasting (IF) is an eating pattern that cycles between periods of fasting and eating. It doesnt specify which foods you can or cannot eat. It only focuses on when you should eat them.

There are many IF plans and patterns that you can follow, but the most effective one, according to studies is the 16:8 IF diet. The 16:8 IF diet entails one to observe a 16-hour fasting period, followed by an 8-hour eating window.

You can commence a 16-hour fast at 10:00 pm in the night, after you eat your last meal of the day and go to sleepthats 7-8 hours gone right there. You can break the 16-hour fast at 2:00 pm with your lunch and eat small meals till 10:00 pmthis makes up the 8-hour eating window. Alternatively, you can also begin your fast at 8 pm and break it at 12 pm, the next day, like Naman did.

My 8 hour window started from 12 pm (Lunch) and ended at 8 pm (Dinner) and in the remaining 16 hours, Id only drink water and sometimes a cup of espresso to sustain. In addition to this, all my meals and drinks comprised no sugar and processed foods except Diet Coke (just a little something to kill the sweet cravings now and then).

The best thing about intermittent fasting is that there are no such restrictions on what to eat, as the main principle is based on when to eat. But I only stuck to eating lunch and dinner, which would include 2 rotis with a vegetable preparation.

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My weight loss exercise regime comprised only cardio exercises (for the first 3 months). Id go for a jog around my college's campus everyday for about 20 minutes with a pace of around 7min/km and on Sunday I used to go for a long-distance run (5K-10K)

Post these 3 months, I added weight training to my weight loss regime. So then, 6 out of the 7 days of the week, I trained every muscle group and on Sunday, as usual, Id go for a long run.

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Just try intermittent fasting with some daily cardio it really works.

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