Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

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Fasting for two consecutive days will impact your energy levels and can slow your metabolism, making it difficult for you to lose weight. Therefore you need to make several adjustments to your eating habits and learn to adapt to a healthier intermittent fasting plan, so you can maintain long-term health benefits. Anytime an author of a book offering dietary advice repeatedly reminds you that they are not a doctor or a nutritionist and that they aren’t qualified to give advice but will be more than happy to refer you to books that actually are written by qualified professionals, you should probably just move on. Unfortunately, as I finished the book, I found myself bothered by the overly familiar tone of the author and the way she preaches the intermittent fasting lifestyle. Mosley found that by restricting what he was eating on just two days of the week and eating “normally” on the other five days, he not only lost weight but also saw an improvement in various health markers.

Gin also promotes a daily eating window, some people do OMAD (One Meal a Day) and others have longer eating windows, but usually not more than 8 hours because the point it to give the body a break and to keep insulin levels low.The “ rip off the band-aid” is the most drastic approach to intermittent fasting that throws you right in at the deep end. I fast for many reasons and weight loss isn’t in the top 5 (and not because I didn’t have a lot to lose). To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Though I HIGHLY recommend "The Obesity Code" (I'm NOT changing my mind) I WILL say that if you are interested in DOING IF - changing your lifestyle, losing weight and dealing with other health issues - this is a WONDERFUL book to read.

I am still just within my first week of IF and haven't cut out the morning creamer in my coffee- that starts tomorrow!It wasn’t the author’s recommendations that threw me off - I’ve been fasting for health reasons for some time now, and have read most of what is available on the science of how and why it works. com for the last two years, which has a plethora of information on keto and low carb diets, and fasting. Reading this book makes me feel like I’ve gained a new friend who I can ask anything about IF and she help because she wants me to succeed. I hope to be able to share the gift of this book with many friends and family as the year progresses.

However this book is written (and read) from the experience of Gin who has and is living the lifestyle just made so much more sense. Gin Stephens presents information in an informal tone and explains why Intermittent Fasting works for weight loss and other health issues. Instead, consider this a friendly nudge from a friend to pick this book up if: 1) you are curious about the benefits of fasting (hint: the benefits are way beyond weight loss) but you don't know where to begin, 2) you are looking for a sustainable way of eating for the rest of your life (fasting is not a diet plan -- there are no rules about what you can and cannot eat), 3) you want to balance your hormones and have more energy. Registered office address: Unit 34 Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EF.Even though it is not restrictive like most diet plans, you will still find it harder to lose weight if you eat lots of highly processed, unhealthy foods. However, I was not convinced by her views on the merits of 23:1, which she seems to advocate near the end.