There are doezens of workout programs and diet plans marketed to be the next best thing for weight loss but loosing weight is as simple as reducing the frequency of meals. In this article I am going to break down why intermittent fasting is by far the best and easiest way to melt fat of your body and keep it off for good.
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We have all heard of calories in and calories out, it sounds like a simple math problem, if we burn more calories than we take in then we will loose weight but what is missing in this math problem is the variable for metabolism, we all have vastly different basal metabolic rate that varies day to day.
There are some ways you can get a rough idea of how much calories you burn in a day but that amount will always vary from one day to next depending on amount of exercise and how much sleep you get. However, this variable can be accounted for by intermittent fasting.
Intermittent fasting is simply going an extended period of time between meals, and the reason this is the best method for burning fat is because your body will not use stored fat as a source of energy in presence of insulin and whenever any food is consumed insulin is present, even if its a light 50 calorie snack insulin will be released and your body will be kicked out of fat burning mode.
Even with intermittent fasting there seems to be many methods. So to make things as simple as possible I found it easiest to just go 6-8 hous after waking up before consuming food, for most people this could be as simple as skipping breakfast. And, as you become more and more fat adapted you will find it very easy to go even longer than 8 hours after waking up to go without food before hunger kicks in.
One of my favorite arguments for intermittent fasting is to look at food consumption through an evolutionary lens. If you think about how humans involved over hundreds of thousands of years, we were hunters and gatherers for vast majority of our existence, we did not have the luxury of walking down the street to get food or waking 20 feet from the couch to the fridge to find something to shove down our throat. We had to go long periods of time without food, which would be considered being in a fasted state. So our bodies developed this incredible mechanism of storing food as a source of energy called fat that we could tap into when we had to go long periods without food.
Fast forward to present time when we have come to accept eating every four hours as the norm, the body never gets a chance to tap into the fat reserve for energy, as it was intended to. When you are having 3 meals a day and snacking in between meals, the only time your body gets a chance to use fat as a source of energy is during sleep when you typically go 7-8 hours without eating, and if you simply continue to not take in any calories after waking up, you allow your body to continue to use fat as the source of energy.
Now back to the whole calories in and calories out debate, it is absolutely true that if you eat significantly less calories than you burn, then you will loose weight, but in my experience with intermittent fasting for about a year, I eat as much as I want when I break fast, go to sleep completely satisfied, wake up not feeling any sort of hunger what-so-ever and everyday I am enjoy large satisfying meals without putting on any extra fat.
At this point, the only thing for you to do is to take this knowledge and try it for yourself, and see how you feel. From an evolutionary perspective I hope it makes sense to you why going an extended period of time without food makes sense for the body. I will just leave you with the fact that, if this is your first time trying intermittent fasting, know that the first few weeks will suck as your body begins to adapt to using fat as a source of energy, but once you become fully fat adapted and you no longer feel hungry, the first thing in the morning, you will begin to wonder why the f#$k you ever thought it was normal to feel hungry every few hours.
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