Intermittent Fasting

What if I told you that breakfast being the most important meal of the day was wrong? What if I told you that when you eat is more important than what you eat?

Yes you’re not dreaming!

Intermittend Fasting is based on the primordial human’s way of life, a time when food was not available all day, all the time. We as human’s are since modern times habituated to eating 3 to 5 meals a day, just to never be hungry. But the fact is that our body needs a break from digesting to be able to regenerate. The way we as humans eat right now has a negative impact on our health and it can lead to obesity and food-related and mental illnesses.

Your body can stand almost anything; it's your mind you have to convince.

What is Intermittent Fasting?

The first thing you should know about IF is that it isn’t a diet. It isn’t an eating plan. It is an eating pattern, a fundamental virtue. It doesn’t say what you should eat and what not, but it says when to eat. With IF, you stop eating for predetermined periods of time. You leave out a meal or you fast up to 24 hours (that depends on what is best for you, but the fasting period is always longer than the eating period.). Our bodies fasts in a natural way, as it’s used to (from back in time). It gets into detox mode and learns to burn FAT again and not to rely on constant food supply.

Is Intermittent Fasting healthy?

By applying Intermittent Fasting, you can (definitely) lose weight and it has a lot of positive effects on your body, your brain and it even helps you to live longer!

Those effects are due to the increased production of the Human Growth Hormone and an improvement of the insuline sensitivity.

These aren’t the only positive outcomes! Intermittent Fasting also promotes fat burning and longlivity and is all about anti-aging, it balances your blood sugar and insuline levels, reduces inflammation in the body, cleans and removes waste from cells, introduces disease prevention, enhances immune system and it also improves your skin!

Besides all these positive effects, Intermittent Fasting also has a positive impact on your eating habits. Your body will get used to a calorie reduced way of eating again. You’ll feel less hungry during the day, uncontrolled binge eating gets rare and stomach issues lessen. You will not feel bloated anymore! Your sugar deposits are going to be emptied completely and your body returns to burning fat. You’ll feel fit, awake and active!

One of the reasons Intermittent Fasting can really work is that it reconnects you with what hunger really feels like.

Multiple Variations

There are multiple variations to Intermittent Fasting. Different fasts:

• Circadian Rhythm This 13-hour fast emulates the body’s natural clock by fasting roughly after sunset to moring.
  

• 16:8 Intermittent This one is very popular! The 16:8 Fast is popularized by Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson as a fast to trim thoses extra pounds. It is very common to fast after dinner to around lunch the following day. So that basically means skipping your breakfast. And before you say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day; no it isn’t 😊
  

• 18:6 Intermittent This fast is slightly more restrictive than the popular 16:8 Fast. This one helps rid the liver of more glycogen, it helps the body to begin using ketones for fuel and can help activate autogaphy to rid the body of damaged cells.
  

• 20:4 Intermittent This one is the most restrictive of all the single day fasts. The 20:4 is essentially a one meal a day regimen. I recommend working up to this level, but many find this optimal for weight loss, ketone production, moderate autogaphy benefits and mental sharpness. If you don’t feel comfortable with the 20:4 Fast, than don’t do this one. I recommend starting with the 16:8 Fast.
  

• Monk Fast (5:2) The Monk Fast, also known as 5:2 Fast, is regarded by many to promote powerful cellular cleansing benefits and it helps reset your metabolism. Many start on a Sunday evening and break the fast Tuesday morning. You only need to do this once per week.

What am I allowed to eat?

From what I have read and from what I have been told you can eat anything during your feeding window, but you should try not to binge. That’s one of the special things about Intermittent Fasting. You wouldn’t feel as if you can’t eat anything. There is one very very important thing and that is always drink lots of water during your fasting window. Only drink pure water, tea or coffee (without milk, sugar or any sweeteners or additives).

Download the app ‘Body Fast’ to help yourself and start with Intermittent Fasting!