#1 Popular fasting protocols don’t use data to guide you when you should eat and when to skip a meal.
Most of the protocols were invented from an individual’s personal experience without relying on any hard data.
If someone on Facebook does 16:8 or 20:4 it DOES NOT mean it will work for you.
Without personalisation to the individual, any fasting protocol is almost guaranteed to be unsustainable and result in failure. We realised that this cookie-cutter approach to fasting had to STOP.
Unlike traditional methods of fasting, Data Driven Fasting uses actual data to determine your perfect eating window on a daily basis and ensure you get consistent results.
#2 Popular fasting protocols don’t do anything to retrain your healthy appetite signals so you don’t end up with an eating disorder.
While it’s invaluable to learn that you don't need to be eating all the time, trying to stick to a fixed calorie target or a rigid eating pattern will drive eating disorders.
You will lose touch with your healthy appetite signals. A quantified approach to mindful eating should be central when practising intermittent fasting.
#3 Fasting protocols don’t tell you how to correctly break a fast and fill your body with nutrients so you don’t binge later.
Where people most commonly come unstuck with fasting is when they refeed.
"Every fool can fast, but only the wise man knows how to break a fast." -George Bernard Shaw
We believe what you eat after you fast is critical to achieving any long term benefit from your sacrifice during your fasting.
Unfortunately, many fasting proponents, with their fear of the short term insulin response to food, actually cause their followers to consume low satiety, energy-dense nutrient-poor foods that leave them in a constant binge/restrict cycle.
Sadly, they continue to lose and regain the same few pounds without achieving the meaningful, long term results they hoped for, in spite of their deprivation and sacrifice.