This short article will help to dispel a few of the misconceptions regarding Intermittent Fasting, and how it can fit into a healthy lifestyle by functioning as a simple a weight loss plan, and later on, to maintain the weight lost and preserve progress.
When people hear the term "fasting", they often equate the term with "starving". Not eating every few hours tends to make people a little nervous. What happens if their metabolisms shut down? Won't they waste away all at once? And, when they do start eating again, everything will be stored as fat right?
Intermittent Fasting is not about starving yourself. It is simply about going without food for a short time period, then resuming your life normally. Eating like a rabbit all the time is a …show more content…
Assuming an individual is healthy, meaning no underlying medical condition or disease, such as diabetes, skipping a meal or two can be an effective addition to a healthy lifestyle.
Nearly every diet that you will encounter at the book store has some sort of a trick to get the reader to eat less. Counting calories is tedious, and can be overwhelming. Reading labels and measuring ingredients can quickly take the joy out of preparing a meal. Following a recipe can be difficult enough, but to have to come up with substitutions or sacrifice entire portions of a meal to keep them within a caloric budget is undesirable for most. Such steps often lead to the abandonment of the diet altogether.
A more effective way to lose weight, or maintain weight, is to follow an intermittent fasting approach. There are several different ways to go about this. Brad Pilon of Eat Stop Eat fame advocates skipping food for an entire twenty four hour time frame. Not a bad approach, and will certainly help to reduce calories significantly so long as you don't go overboard. The downside is that an entire day of going without food is a psychological issue that some will have a hard time
When people hear the term "fasting", they often equate the term with "starving". Not eating every few hours tends to make people a little nervous. What happens if their metabolisms shut down? Won't they waste away all at once? And, when they do start eating again, everything will be stored as fat right?
Intermittent Fasting is not about starving yourself. It is simply about going without food for a short time period, then resuming your life normally. Eating like a rabbit all the time is a …show more content…
Assuming an individual is healthy, meaning no underlying medical condition or disease, such as diabetes, skipping a meal or two can be an effective addition to a healthy lifestyle.
Nearly every diet that you will encounter at the book store has some sort of a trick to get the reader to eat less. Counting calories is tedious, and can be overwhelming. Reading labels and measuring ingredients can quickly take the joy out of preparing a meal. Following a recipe can be difficult enough, but to have to come up with substitutions or sacrifice entire portions of a meal to keep them within a caloric budget is undesirable for most. Such steps often lead to the abandonment of the diet altogether.
A more effective way to lose weight, or maintain weight, is to follow an intermittent fasting approach. There are several different ways to go about this. Brad Pilon of Eat Stop Eat fame advocates skipping food for an entire twenty four hour time frame. Not a bad approach, and will certainly help to reduce calories significantly so long as you don't go overboard. The downside is that an entire day of going without food is a psychological issue that some will have a hard time