So when you eat throughout the day, you keep your insulin level high – and you stop your body from tapping into your fat stores. When you fast, on the other hand, you let your insulin level drop – switching your body into fat-burning mode. To put it into simple terms, our bodies want us to survive and reproduce. And because of that, we have protective mechanisms that are in place to keep us from dying if our bodies perceive we are in a starvation crisis of some sort. This kept our ancestors alive during wars, droughts, and hard winters. Our bodies don’t understand that we are trying to slim down for summer bathing suit season, and instead, they think we are in terrible danger.

There is a main "home feed" that has EVERYTHING you want to see from all of the groups! No need to go to each group separately to see what's happening--it's so much easier to connect. Lastly, diet plays a large role in keeping your gut healthy. In Gut, Enders recommends taking probiotics and prebiotics, which fill your gut with healthy bacteria and feed them, respectively. She also advises against taking antibiotics unless strictly necessary, since they kill off both good and bad bacteria and can cause antibiotic resistance. Maintain Your Weight Adjust your feasting. Recognize if you’re overeating or eating too many ultra-processed foods, and try delaying these foods for a month or two. In addition, try switching up your eating style by getting more whole foods or adjusting your macronutrient intake. But it is not over. Additionally, lots of people realized that fasting truly changes their habits of eating.Episode 16: Choosing Your Goal Weight, Eating to Satiety, Anticancer and Metabolic Effects of IF, and More, 10/18/23 So what actually does that knowledge exclude? As a start, all the diet sodas also gums, flavored waters, fruit-flavored teas, and everything that with a sugary or food-like taste. But only if you can, stand out against that urge. Intermittent fasting gives the best results if it involves variation. To handle plateaus and continuing to losing weight, it’s best to throw in a curveball now and then. Shortform note: In Intuitive Eating, Tribole and Resch recommend that you honor your hunger as a key step to healing your relationship with food. If you deny your hunger, you’ll reinforce the dieting mindset that causes yo-yoing between self-deprivation and bingeing. Instead, give yourself “unconditional permission to eat” and pay attention to your hunger signals to learn when you’ve had enough.) Fast-forward to the present. I am maintaining a weight loss of over eighty pounds, and I haven’t struggled to maintain the loss. Every year when the seasons change, I pull out my clothes from last year and try them on. I hold my breath… do they still fit?

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Episode 13: What is the Clean Fast? Gin and Sheri Explain, and Answer Some Common Questions, 9/27/23 Lastly, celebrate your success each time you perform the new behavior. According to Fogg, this reinforces the behavior in your brain and helps make it automatic. Plus, feeling good about yourself is healthy for its own sake. Visit ginstephens.com/community to join us. An annual membership costs just over a dollar a week when you do the math. If you aren’t ready to fully commit for a year, join for a month and you can cancel at any time. If you know you’ll want to stay forever, we also have a lifetime membership option available. Every time you eat something during the day, you raise your insulin levels– and your body stops using your fat stores. On the other side, if you fast you will be dropping your insulin levels– taking your body into fat-burning mode. The phrase of fasting looks pretty basic, isn’t it? For a set amount of time, the only thing you should do is avoiding eating anything. Is possible that the idea gets any simpler?