Intermittent Fasting: How
Doing intermittent fasting is so simple. Eat less frequently but eat well. Just very low carb when you do it.
Let me show you a few points and you’ve got everything you need to know to get started immediately to improve your health, memory, cognition—everything.
IF Explained
Intermittent fasting is simply eating less frequently—not about eating less food.
It’s not a diet, it’s a pattern of EATING and NOT eating.
All we’re doing is we’re mimicking how our ancestors used to eat.
They didn’t eat like cows. They didn’t graze all day.
They were lucky if they got one meal a day. Two was a luxury. They roamed for food—hunted, gathered.
They might even go a whole day without food.
So, our bodies respond very well to that –it’s what they’re evolved to do.
How a Typical Person Eats
Just look at the chart above.
That’s breakfast there first.
Then a snack
Then lunch
Then a snack
Then snacks and snacks throughout the evening—popcorn, milk before bed, maybe something sweet if you can’t sleep and you’re insulin resistant (can’t sleep without sugar!!)
So the point is—since you spike insulin every single time you eat anything but WATER, you are spiking insulin all day. Even if those are small, low calorie meals then you cannot burn fat.
So you get this big belly and this is why. Insulin.
Insulin is one of the three fat storage hormones.
If we suppress it—you get fat burning.
How We Should Eat
What you need to do to lose weight and get healthy is to go from that grazing diet to one with no snacks and three meals a day to begin with. See those spikes on the second line that looks like an EKG there.
So three meals a day no snacks.
You want to eat like this:
Breakfast with fat added to satiate you for a long time
+ Wait for as long as you can then eat a good lunch with fat.
Then a dinner – if you need it.
As far as what to eat, that’s in the Keto Course that I’ve done.
Once you can do this easily—move to two meals a day, spaced out as much as you can.
You keep pushing breakfast forward—to ten, then eleven, then eventually you’re eating breakfast around lunch. I eat something like bacon, avocado, eggs, and cheese.
If you’re not hungry, just don’t eat.
Eventually, you move to this. Eventually, you’ll go for eight hours between lunch and dinner.
Then six hours. Then four hours.
Then you’re eating just two meals a day, spaced close together.
A four-hour window would be the sweet spot for benefits in a BIG WAY
What’s interesting is that if you eat the same calories chunked into two meals, you’ll get so much benefit—regardless of calories—you will never want to go back to grazing.
Eating two meals a day close together, preferably in a four-hour window leaves you in fat burning 20 hours a day. You’ll burn major fat and you’ll lean down and feel great.
Now let’s talk about dos and don’ts with Intermittent Fasting.