With intermittent fasting becoming more and more popular as a weight-loss and health management diet, it is important to understand how to set it up; here are three keys to make sure that you can get involved in an intermittent fasting lifestyle as soon as possible.

- Intermittent fasting doesn't need to be a short term approach to dieting and is in fact much more successful as a genuine lifestyle choice. The first decision to make therefore is how to adapt a fast to YOUR life. Remember that the fast can be anywhere from 16 hours to several days in length depending on exactly what you are trying to accomplish. The two approaches that are perhaps easiest to set up are an alternating day (24 hour) fast/eat cycle, or a 16/8 cycle.

- When do I workout? this question is key. Diet is with doubt the most important factor in weight-loss and good health, but to really get the best out of an intermittent fast, the re-feed should coincide with your workout. Personally, i have have had good success with a fast from 8Pm until the next day at lunch and an early afternoon training session. All the food that I am taking in around my workout is being used for fuel and to repair muscle rather than being stocked as body-fat.

- What do I want to accomplish with intermittent fasting? is your aim fat-loss, muscle gain, improved health or a combination of all three? Depending on your answer to these questions, you can start to identify exactly how long your fast should be and what quantity of food your should be eating during the eating "window".


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