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

Junk food can make people who fast feel tired. If, after fasting, you eat foods that fill you up but have no nutritional value—what we call carbage—you notice it right away because your system is so clean and efficient. It’s like if your car windshield was filthy, you wouldn’t notice if a speck of dirt landed on it.
Dietary fat makes the body work harder to digest it, and therefore you spend more metabolic energy digesting fat than carbohydrates.
NATURAL FATS Choose from these healthy fats oils (buy organic when you can): avocado, extra-virgin olive, MCT (made from the fatty acids found in coconut oil, palm kernel oil, and certain dairy products), and macadamia nut dairy: unprocessed cheese; full-fat cream, sour cream, and crème fraiche; ghee and butter meat: any kind (preferably grass-fed)
... See moreDuring the times that clients eat, they enjoy their food. When they are fasting, they enjoy how well they feel mentally and physically overall.
Ultimately, insulin is responsible for the change because its job is to direct the storage of excess food energy in the body.
Unlike other diets, intermittent fasting doesn’t focus on Calories In versus Calories Out, or anything to do with calories. Instead, it treats the root cause of obesity, which is insulin resistance.
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.
Eat more natural fats and proteins A 16/8 fast most days might be the best way to support your nutritional needs and make sure you eat enough . As you become more active, you may become hungrier. I don’t recommend eating more frequently throughout the day. Instead, I suggest eating more fats and more proteins. Adding 20 to 30 grams of fat and
... See moreCalorie-restriction diets ignore the biological principle of homeostasis, which is the body’s ability to adapt to changing environments. These diets do not address the root cause of obesity.