• Fasting is easier to follow than dieting.
Some diets are quite difficult to follow, especially if you take account:
• Calorie counting
• Drinking only fruit or vegetables juices
• Eating only “approved” but expensive frozen meals
• Incorporating a number of food supplements into your daily meals
• Listing down precisely what you eat and their corresponding volume
• Eliminating major food groups from your daily meals (e.g. carbohydrates, or proteins, or solid food, etc.)
You do not need to do all these when you practice intermittent fasting. In fact, you can keep eating your favorite foods, healthy or not, as long as you give your body enough time to process these.
Of course, we recommend that healthy food options especially if you want to …show more content…
You avoid that because it is obviously the unhealthy option. So instead, you eat three 100 gram bars of granola that have higher levels of fiber and good proteins. But each bar contains 391.3 calories. This means that in one sitting, you already consumed: 1,173.9 calories.
The “healthy” granola bar became more fattening than the “unhealthy” chocolate bar.
The same goes with beverages.
Let us suppose that you went on a pineapple juice only diet. You consume five 1,000 ml bottles of store-bought pineapple juice. Each bottle contains 440 calories each. In one day, you have consumed 2,200 calories – just by drinking juice. That’s 200 calories over the recommended 2,000 calories a day.
Fun Fact: Have you ever wondered why we usually have breakfast at 6 am, lunch at 12 noon, and dinner at 6 pm? This eating pattern was set upon the principle that it takes at least 5 hours to digest a large meal, and an hour to leave the stomach empty.
Now imagine eating:
For breakfast
• 1 piece, small hardboiled egg 78 calories
• 1 piece, small ham and cheese English muffin 249 calories
• 1 piece, medium fresh satsuma 18
Some diets are quite difficult to follow, especially if you take account:
• Calorie counting
• Drinking only fruit or vegetables juices
• Eating only “approved” but expensive frozen meals
• Incorporating a number of food supplements into your daily meals
• Listing down precisely what you eat and their corresponding volume
• Eliminating major food groups from your daily meals (e.g. carbohydrates, or proteins, or solid food, etc.)
You do not need to do all these when you practice intermittent fasting. In fact, you can keep eating your favorite foods, healthy or not, as long as you give your body enough time to process these.
Of course, we recommend that healthy food options especially if you want to …show more content…
You avoid that because it is obviously the unhealthy option. So instead, you eat three 100 gram bars of granola that have higher levels of fiber and good proteins. But each bar contains 391.3 calories. This means that in one sitting, you already consumed: 1,173.9 calories.
The “healthy” granola bar became more fattening than the “unhealthy” chocolate bar.
The same goes with beverages.
Let us suppose that you went on a pineapple juice only diet. You consume five 1,000 ml bottles of store-bought pineapple juice. Each bottle contains 440 calories each. In one day, you have consumed 2,200 calories – just by drinking juice. That’s 200 calories over the recommended 2,000 calories a day.
Fun Fact: Have you ever wondered why we usually have breakfast at 6 am, lunch at 12 noon, and dinner at 6 pm? This eating pattern was set upon the principle that it takes at least 5 hours to digest a large meal, and an hour to leave the stomach empty.
Now imagine eating:
For breakfast
• 1 piece, small hardboiled egg 78 calories
• 1 piece, small ham and cheese English muffin 249 calories
• 1 piece, medium fresh satsuma 18