What is the Warrior Diet (20:4 Fasting)?
The warrior diet means fasting 20 hours and eating in a 4-hour window. Learn how 20:4 intermittent fasting works, who it's for, and how to start.
The warrior diet is an intermittent fasting protocol where you fast for 20 hours each day and eat all your food within a 4-hour window. It sits between the popular 16:8 protocol and OMAD (one meal a day), offering more fat-burning time while still giving you enough of an eating window to get adequate nutrition comfortably. The name comes from the idea of eating the way ancient warriors did — undereating during active hours and feasting in the evening. In…
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