Glossary - Data-Driven Fasting | Optimising Nutrition

This section of the Data-Driven Fasting FAQs defines some of the abbreviations you may see used in our Data-Driven Fasting 30-Day Challenge.

BG – blood glucose (same as blood sugar, but more technically correct).
BS – blood sugar (same as BG, but more commonly used)
DDF – Data-Driven Fasting
EF – extended fasting or not eating for days at a time
LBM – Lean body mass. This refers to everything other than fat mass that makes up your total body weight, like bones, water, muscles, and organs.
Lizzy – the personification of your lizard brain (survival instincts based in your amygdala) that battles with your conscious brain or prefrontal cortex.
Macros – Macronutrients, or protein, carbs and fat
MC – Macros Masterclass or Micros Masterclass
NO – Nutrient Optimiser
NSV – non-scale victory
NutriBoosters – our suite of optimised recipes embedded into Nutrient Optimiser.
Nutrient density – the content of essential nutrients per calorie.
OMAD – one meal a day
P:E – protein: energy ratio
Protein % – the percentage of your total calories that come from protein.
PSMF – Protein Sparing Modified Fast
Satiety – Fullness per calorie
TMAD – two meals a day
TOM – time of the month, menses or period
Trigger – the blood sugar that you need to get below to eat in DDF, calculated by the app
Window – a strict and rigid time-based approach to intermittent fasting
WOE – way of eating

Glossary – Data-Driven Fasting