Intermittent Fasting Made Easy by Thomas DeLauer: Review
Thomas DeLauer built a large following making fasting and nutrition videos, and this book is the tactical version of that content. It is aimed less at the person asking “should I fast” and more at the person already fasting who wants to do it better.
Author: Thomas DeLauer · Publisher: Fair Winds Press, 2022 · Length: about 256 pages
What Intermittent Fasting Made Easy covers
DeLauer breaks fasting into three manageable stages: the fasting window, breaking the fast, and the eating window. Each gets its own checklists and troubleshooting, which makes the book easy to dip into when a specific part of your day is going wrong.
The focus is optimisation rather than first steps. There is detail on food selection, supplement use, and timing workouts around your fasts, all aimed at fat loss, steadier energy, sharper focus, and holding on to muscle. A dedicated section adapts several fasting “biohacks” for women, which is more than most fitness-oriented fasting books bother to do.
Who it’s best for
Fitness-minded readers who already know the basics and want practical tactics for combining fasting with training and body-composition goals.
Key takeaways from Intermittent Fasting Made Easy
- Splitting fasting into three stages makes it easier to fix the part that is not working.
- What and when you eat around training matters if muscle is a priority.
- Small adjustments to food and timing can move you off a plateau.
- Some of the tactics need adapting for women, and the book flags that rather than ignoring it.
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How it fits cycle-aware fasting
The training and body-composition angle is useful, and the women’s section is a good sign. What it does not do is connect fasting intensity to where you are in your cycle, which is exactly when fasted training deserves attention. If you train hard, watch how fasted sessions in the luteal phase affect your sleep and appetite, and eat before the session if they take a toll. Our guide to fasting and hormone balance covers that, and intermittent fasting for women sets the broader dose that keeps the tactics from backfiring.
Where it falls short
DeLauer is a popular fitness creator rather than a clinician, and some of the “hacks” lean on mechanistic or emerging evidence more than clinical trials. Useful ideas, best treated as experiments rather than settled facts. For the clinical evidence to weigh those hacks against, our review of The Fasting Fix covers the most rigorous book on this list.
The verdict
The most practical book here for anyone training seriously. Take the three-stage system and the women’s biohacks, and layer your cycle on top of them.
This review is part of our roundup of the best intermittent fasting books.
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