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IN THIS CHAPTER

Scrutinizing your intermittent fasting progress

Considering calories

Figuring out your calorie math

Deciphering your calories in

Coming to terms with your calories out

Calories … you hate them, you don’t want to hear about them, and you certainly don’t want to count them. You may even be a bit taken aback by a discussion of calories when you thought intermittent fasting didn’t count calories. After all, intermittent fasting is about when you eat, not so much about what you eat, right? Yes and no. The beauty and simplicity of intermittent fasting plans lie in the focus more on timing rather than the nuisance of counting calories.

It’s up to you: You can immediately skip this chapter, or you can instead use this chapter as your backup tool kit to refer to if your intermittent fasting plan is not giving you the results that you had hoped for. Or, perhaps, you’re just interested in calories.

This chapter is a tool to help you grasp the concept of weight loss and the role calories play in losing and gaining weight. If one of your intermittent fasting goals is to lose weight and body fat, then the following illustrates why intermittent fasting works.