The Essential Guide to Intermittent Fasting for Women: Balance Your Hormones to Lose Weight, Lower Stress, and Optimize Health

EXPERT TIP • Plan activities for your fasting days ahead of time so that you always have a plan of action before you get into a funk or feel hungry during your fast. If you’re always hungry at 6 p.m., for example, then hit the gym or a fitness class during that time. If you’re feeling stressed about work, go for a walk instead of eating. Take an Ep

Therapeutic fasts have two criteria: they must be at least 24 hours, and they must be intermittent. Consistent and intermittent fasts of 24 hours or more reverse illness for women with hormonal imbalances. And in my clinical experience, longer fasts also help reverse metabolic illnesses, such as PCOS, and help with weight loss over 15 pounds.

For the first two months of fasting, most women report delayed menstrual cycles. And many still have the cramping, bloating, cravings, and irritability that they’ve always had. The good news is that these symptoms don’t get worse before they get better, despite all the hormonal changes that are occurring. Don’t fast when your body or life isn’t coo

Dietary fat Dietary fat is found in foods like avocados, cheese and whole-fat dairy products, fatty fish, eggs, olives, and cold-pressed oils.

Insulin resistance is the root cause of MetS.

because you don’t have to count calories or measure foods when you fast, I find their attitude toward food actually becomes more relaxed and healthy.

During the times that clients eat, they enjoy their food. When they are fasting, they enjoy how well they feel mentally and physically overall.

when we stop secreting insulin constantly, we don’t produce the hunger hormone, ghrelin, as frequently,

We now know that obesity is a disease of too much insulin (hyperinsulinemia), and we want to eat in a way that doesn’t add more fuel to the fire. That means we don’t want to add more insulin when we already have too much. Instead, we want to add healthy fats.