Sugar And Intermittent Fasting: Can We Eat Dessert And Still Lose Weight?

Intermittent fasting involves regular, short-term fasts or spells of minimal or no food, followed by a time window of unrestricted eating. What happens when you add sugar to diet during this window.

Intermittent fasting is able to trick the body’s physiological changes that come with calorie restriction.

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Whatever your diet regimen is, one thing that science agrees upon is that sugar is addictive. That's why decreasing your sugar intake or quitting it altogether can be very difficult. Many of us who wish to lose weight, and want to avoid metabolic conditions such as prediabetes and/or diabetes, are advised to drop added (artificial) sugar from our food intake. But what if you want to eat a little bit of sugar or sweets made with some sugar? Can you lose weight and also retain metabolic