Intermittent Fasting
Why not eating is good for you.
August 18th
For decades I believed that calories in calories out was the way to lose weight. That is what ‘they’ were telling us. The latest science proves that it is much more than that. Hormones are what truly drives the weight gains or losses. Insulin is the key hormone, most of the food we eat is broken down into sugar (aka glucose) and released into your bloodstream. When your blood sugar goes up, it signals your pancreas to release insulin. Insulin acts like a key to let the glucose into your body’s cells for use as energy. When we are eating we are burning that glucose for our energy. When we are fasting our body turns to our fat stores to use for energy. Burning fat, YES!
Everyone fasts. The key to intermittent fasting is to see how many hours you are currently fasting and then increase it slightly each day until you reach your goal. I am currently doing an 18/6 plan. 18 hours of fasting with a 6 hour eating window. You can start tracking your eating then the next step is to push breakfast back 15 minutes a day or stop eating sooner at night. Do what feels best to you.
I was once a night time eater, meaning I would wake up in the middle of the night and go get something to eat! That was a hard habit to break! So it is much easier for me to push breakfast back than it is to not snack at night. A lot of people have great success eating earlier in the day and just having tea or water in the evening. We are all different so try some different things and choose what works best for you!
Ready to start?
Grab a notebook and write down what time you stop eating at night and then in the morning note what time you start eating. Then do the math. How long are you fasting each night?
