Ketogenic Diet and Intermittent Fasting – What are they? So what exactly is Intermittent Fasting? This is one of the first questions we should answer before combining Intermittent Fasting with the Ketogenic Diet. Intermittent Fasting is just a fancy way of saying you’re rescheduling your meal plan to look more like a broke college aged individual. It’s basically skipping breakfast and moving your lunch and dinner times to a slightly later time than you are probably used to eating. Instead of grabbing lunch at 11:00 or 12:00, push the time back to 1:00 p.m. and then grab dinner around 6:00 or 7:00 pm. This will allow your body ample time to go from processing your last meal, into a fasting state, to realizing that it needs to start burning fat. A good rule of thumb to remember with intermittent fasting is that your body starts fasting twelve hours after your last meal, and once your body cues into this fact (because you are fasting) it starts to actually burn the fat that has been stored in your body. Technically, Intermittent fasting is a pattern of eating and of scheduling your meals so that you eat during a specific period of time, … Continue reading Ketogenic Diet and Intermittent Fasting