‘It is the season for cookies at the office, appetizers at every gathering, and that voice in your head saying: “I’ll just skip breakfast so I can eat more at the Christmas party tonight.”
Sound familiar?
Intermittent fasting has become one of the most popular approaches to eating—and this time of year, I see a lot of people using it incorrectly. They treat it like a calorie bank account: deposit hours of hunger now, withdraw guilt-free feasting later.
I get the logic. But after years of training through Precision Nutrition and working with real people navigating real holiday seasons, I can tell you: this approach almost always backfires.
