Episode 16: Choosing Your Goal Weight, Eating to Satiety, Anticancer and Metabolic Effects of IF, and More, 10/18/23 Just like you discovered in the latest chapter, fasting may assist you to lower the level of insulin flowing in your blood. This is an advantage for losing weight– yet the advantages don’t end up there. Keep your fasting clean: Follow Stephens’s clean fasting guidelines to teach your body to access its fat stores. You’ll gradually deplete your stored glycogen and cue your body to search for an alternate source of fuel—your fat.

Shortform note: While Stephens suggests an evening eating window, other studies indicate that a morning eating window may be better. Research found that people’s cognition and memory were stronger when they’d eaten breakfast. Those who fasted early in the day also struggled to exercise on an empty stomach, and eating late has been linked to weight gain.)

Terms may seem a little complicated at first to be honest. However, learning the various kinds of fasting is significant if you’re decided to make your lifestyle better. Fast forward again, this time 9 months. I was cleaning out some cabinets and ran across my old grain mill. All of a sudden, I knew that it was time to take my bread baking to the next level. I'm also the host of the Intermittent Fasting Stories podcast. Tune in each week to hear an inspirational story from an intermittent faster.

Too much insulin is related to the risk of type 2 diabetes – so if you lower your insulin level via fasting, you lessen the probability that you’ll get that kind of serious medical situation. So, now you know about my qualifications. You may still wonder: In what ways am I just like you? What do I know personally about diets and the struggles related to weight management? Fast. Feast. Repeat. has it all! You’ll learn how to work a variety of intermittent fasting approaches into your life, no matter what your circumstances or schedule. Once you’ve ignited your fat-burning superpower, you’ll get rid of “diet brain” forever, tweak your protocol until it’s second nature, and learn why IF is a lifestyle, not a diet.Above all, fasting isn’t continually simple. You’ve got to adjust your mealtimes with work meetings, family gatherings, your daily routine, and so on. After finally finding yourself a good schedule, you can consider it too simple to adapt it to your life forever.