Episode 13: What is the Clean Fast? Gin and Sheri Explain, and Answer Some Common Questions, 9/27/23 On your fasting days, you can fast completely or eat a 500-calorie meal to keep yourself going. The first option increases fat burning due to the longer fast, while the second still works but is easier. Either way, fast cleanly to ensure that you burn fat, activate autophagy, and lower insulin.

If you’re having trouble losing weight and Stephens’s adjustments don’t work for you, consider the health of your gut microbiome. In recent years, research on the link between gut bacteria and everything from mood and personality to obesity and appetite hormones has expanded. If you would like to make a submission for the Fast. Feast. Repeat. Podcast, please visit fastfeastrepeat.com/submit and you can share your questions, success stories, non-scale victories, IF Tweaks, etc. for the podcast. We look forward to hearing from you! Episode 10: Overcoming Chronic Pain, Delaying Wine, Fighting Inflammation, Dessert Strategies, and More​, 9/6/23People usually believe that fasting just makes you lose weight since it makes you eat less. For half of the day, if you don’t eat, the reasoning goes, you should be consumed fewer calories.

Research in 2008 proved that just swishing a sweetened liquid in your mouth can dramatically level up your insulin levels. For the people that are suspicious about fasting’s losing weight potential, the possibility of a longer and healthier life is, usually, too attractive to resist.At the same time, other research has found a significant effect: In one study on fasting during Ramadan, a Muslim holy month that involves fasting daily from dawn to dusk, subjects lost weight, lowered their BMI, and decreased their waist circumference. 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? One of the most common kinds of intermittent fasting is based on an eating window. The meaning of it is that you eat just for a fixed number of hours in a day; outside of your window, taking calories is stringently off-limits. 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.