Hello and welcome back to part 2 of the Insiders No Sweat Guide to Intermittent Fasting for Weight Loss and High Health.
In part 1 I outlined what Intermittent Fasting is.
It is basically giving your digestive system a nice long break from digesting food and drink and any nutrients.
Giving it a break so it can just have a nice quiet time and allow your body to do other things.
That's where the high health comes in.
I told you all about my story,
How I started Intermittent Fasting and lost more than 20 pounds and I've stayed there at the exact weight all of these four years.
I've lost 17 inches of fluff all around my body and it is easy to do.
It's simple.
What are we going to do in part 2?
I'm going to show you how to cross over from being starving hungry to breaking it in one hour at a time.
So the easy way to do this,
The no pain way,
Is to just put your breakfast back one hour in the morning.
When you wake up do not drink your coffee with milk in it.
Do not have hazelnut coffee,
Just plain black bitter coffee.
This is the hardest part for a lot of people.
Believe me I've heard hundreds of stories and this was a hard part for me.
I love cream in my coffee but I pulled up my big girl pants and I drank black coffee and it took me a long time before it didn't feel yucky.
So one hour later than you normally eat breakfast.
That's the easy way to start.
Maybe two days later,
Two hours later.
So if your breakfast is normally at 7,
Now we're going to 9.
Now this might not be convenient with somebody who works out of the house but we'll just outline the timing and we can figure out the rest later.
Maybe three days later you go to 11 o'clock and a couple days later then you go and skip breakfast and go straight to lunch.
As you are putting your breakfast off a little later and a little later and a little later every day,
Your body is noticing you're not giving it its breakfast.
It's going to be hungry for a little while then you're going to access the power source stored in your liver.
After a couple days this power source will be depleted and you will start to access the fluff on your face,
Around your eyes,
Under your chin,
On your neck,
Shoulders,
Tummy,
Hips,
And etc.
So that's the easy way of tiptoeing in to intermittent fasting.
The hard way is the way I did it.
I closed my window at night after I finished my dinner and decided I was going to do this and did not eat anything,
Anything at all.
I brushed my teeth,
I flossed my teeth,
I got out of the kitchen and did a project and the next morning I gave it a go.
First I started with two glasses of cold water and then my black coffee and then I didn't do anything until noon and BAM!
At noon I had completed 17 hours of fasting.
Now let me tell you,
In the morning,
Every morning,
I really had to make a point to think about other stuff.
I drank my black coffee,
I drank my water,
I drank fizzy water without any flavor and tried not to think about it.
The biggest,
Hardest part is sitting around thinking about why you're not eating.
Get busy,
Go for a walk,
Do exercise,
Read a book,
Talk on the phone,
Write a chapter of your memoir,
But don't sit around thinking about it.
Get busy.
So where are we?
We've pushed back our eating window from 7 a.
M.
To noon.
Now I've done 17 hours of fasting.
Wow,
That's exciting.
So how do we break a fast?
What do we eat?
What is the best way to break a fast with what kind of food and fuel?
Come back for part three and we will go over that in detail.
Thank you for listening today.
This is Jackie.
Come back for part three as we continue to learn how to access the other fuel sources in our body.
Intermittent fasting for weight loss and high health.
