How to Try Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent fasting has been in the news lately, but most of the stories I’ve read have been missing the point and don’t provide any help on how to give it a try for oneself.

IF works, not my restricting calories, but by making your body burn its fat stores for energy. What you’re doing is changing your environment so that your body isn’t expecting a constant stream of food all day long. You’re upregulating your body’s systems for burning your stored body fat.

To intermittently fast you setup a portion of the day where you don’t consume any food. This can be from 8:00PM to 10:00AM for a 14:10, 14 hours of the day you aren’t eating and then you do eat within that 10 hour window.

You don’t have to jump into extreme intermittent fasting. You can start gradually and make your eating window smaller as you grow accustomed to it. If you just can’t start your day without eating something then try to stop eating earlier in the evening. This might mean you’re on a 9:00PM to 8:00AM plan. And that’s a fine place to start. After a few days of that try to compress that eating window by stopping eating earlier in the evening and/or going later into the morning before your first meal of the day. If you consistently get hungry outside of that time window, expand your eating window a bit. It may take some trial and error to find what works for you. Gradually you’ll be able to shorten your eating window and your body will spend more time burning stored body fat.

There are many ways to do intermittent fasting. I can help you find the one that works for you. IF is just one tool for optimizing your health and fat loss.