WHY YOU SHOULD START INTERMITTENT FASTING

Fasting has been a hot trend lately and there is a good reason why. We all know what fasting is… you go without food and sometimes water. This is a very common practice done for centuries and even around the world today, and a very common religious practice.

Difference Between Involuntary and Voluntary Fasting

Every time I tell people I’m fasting, I always got the same response. ‘Oh that is so bad for you, you are starving yourself. First off, fasting is not starving your body. Starvation is an involuntary abstention from eating. Those who are starving don’t know when they are going to get their next meal.

Breakfast

Fasting has no limitation… you are fasting when you are not eating. So, when you go to bed at night and then wake up, during that time frame you are fasting. That’s why breakfast is called that, it literally is breaking a fast. Breaking your fast can be done at any time of the day, morning, noon, or even a few days later.

The Misconception Of Our Diets

We have been told for too long that you have to eat 3 meals a day and then a snack in between those meals. And like everyone else, I believed it. I ate 6 small meals a day, and I gained weight and was ALWAYS hungry.

We are taught the American Standard Diet, which is eating every few hours. This makes sense, since consumers have to buy products like high carb and snack foods in order to for big companies to make huge profits. But this way of eating will only continue to raise your insulin and set you up for gaining weight and even obesity.

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Eating and Gaining Weight

When you eat your body releases insulin to lower your blood sugar. The food you are eating is broken down into simple forms. To explain this in the simplest form, when you eat a carb, it is broken down into a simple sugar, then your body reacts to these simple sugars and sends out insulin, the insulin then takes the sugar and stores it in your cells, lowering the sugars in your blood.

These cells can be anything from muscles to be able to use the sugar as energy when you get up and move… or carbs can be stored in fat cells. This is generally where they are stored for future use, like most people you don’t use the ‘extra carbs’ and it stays in those fat cells.

So the more you eat, the more your body is storing the food in your cells. Which is what makes you gain weight! With fasting your body then begins to tap into those cells for that energy. Once your body has gone through its stored up glucose it then begins to start burning fat.