Whether you fast for 16 hours every day or only a couple days a week, any intermittent fasting diet uses the process of restricting your food consumption to only certain time periods.
Restricting your eating window is an easy way to cut back on food intake, but this also means you are potentially limiting your nutrition. This can be from eating less food in general or from simply limiting your nutrition window in addition. This is especially true for longer fasting windows or alternate day fasting.
There are many essential nutrients that your body needs and it is not possible to satisfy all of your daily requirements in a single food or meal. Certain nutrients can interact with one another either helping to increase or decrease their absorption potential. In other words, fewer meals or eating opportunities per day may cause you to be deficient in some nutrients.
Outside of general nutrition and health needs, there are some other key considerations when building intermittent fasting meal plans. Such as managing your appetite, energy levels, mood, and cravings. Choosing the right can impact all of this and make losing weight and achieving your goals much easier.