Intermittent Fasting: A Proven Guide To Fasting + 10 Valuable Fasting Lessons

By Micheal Robbin

Are you unhappy with your current weight? Do you want crazy amounts of energy throughout the day? Do you want to live a healthier life? Discover what you actually NEED to know about intermittent fasting, get fast results and benefit for a lifetime!

Dieting in the modern world has so many options, plans, rules, to do lists, not to do lists and unwelcome boasting from your well-meaning friend who eats a pizza a day and still never gains weight. All of this can be extremely frustrating and put anyone off from following a diet. While a fast might sound like the next thing from a diet, many find it to be even easier than many traditional diets and tend to stick with their fasting plans. 

Hardly new, intermittent fasting is something most of us already do literally in our sleep. It is what we believed our leaner ancestors to do in the process of hunting and gathering. And it is what many today are now doing to better their lives and their health. 

While fasting has long been burdened with a negative reputation, intermittent fasting is gaining popularity in recent times, and for a good reason. Weight loss, increasing the effectiveness and success of chemotherapy, killing cancer cells, strengthening immune systems, increasing longevity, and the potential reversal of type 2 diabetes are just some of the benefits intermittent fasting has to offer.

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• Why Should We Do Intermittent Fasting
• The Amazing Benefits Of Intermittent Fasting
• 10 Highly Informative Intermittent Fasting Lessons
• Who Should and Should Not Do Intermittent Fasting
• How To Fast Safely
• Different Types Of Fasting (Alternate-day, 12-Hour Fast, 5:2 Plan etc.)
• What Goes On During Your Fasting Period
• Extended Fasting
• MUCH, MUCH, MORE!

In ten detailed, easy to understand lessons, this book will guide you through the pitfalls of intermittent fasting and show you how to effectively and safely go on a fasting schedule for your health, body, and mind. When done properly with the knowledge provided in this book, intermittent fasting can provide benefits many do not even know are possible. 

The chapters inside discuss the benefits of fasting, the importance of hydration during your fast, how to avoid mistakes and harm while fasting, what to expect when you begin the process, what to expect later in the process and when you are done. Not just that but also the history and modern regeneration of intermittent fasting, who fasting will benefit and who might suffer negative consequences from it, as well as the effects fasting, has on several aspects such as insulin sensitivity, hormonal balances, functions of the brain, and stress. 

Using this book as a helpful guide, you can learn how to go about fasting in a way that is healthy and non-destructive and can potentially greatly improve your health and overall life quality, as well as longevity. It is possible for you to live longer, feel better, and live better with the knowledge found in the following chapters. There are risks to intermittent fasting when done improperly, with the wrong mindset, or with the wrong tools – and that is why this book is here to help you on your journey to fitness, health, and longevity. 

Lessons will walk you through what exactly an intermittent fast is, how to do it and get the best results, how to lessen hunger, and how to maximize your health and weight loss goals. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Atwood
• Release date: Jul 17, 2018

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Introduction

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Most of us have encountered the idea of restricting food for dietary reasons, health concerns, or to alter one's physical appearance. There are several negative connotations connected to this, including understandable fears regarding eating disorders, consequences to health, and the development of unhealthy, potentially harmful habits. But what if restricted eating and fasting were not entirely so bad? What if food restriction could help fight cancer? What if it could make diabetes management easier? How about if fasting could ease stress? These are realities of the once-thought risky idea. When done properly and with solid knowledge, intermittent fasting can provide an impressive array of benefits.

The following chapters will discuss the benefits of fasting, the importance of hydration during your fast, how to avoid pitfalls and harm while fasting, what to expect when you begin the process, the history of fasting, who will benefit and who might suffer negative consequences from it, the effects fasting has on several aspects such as insulin, hormones, functions of the brain, and stress. This book will also address cravings, extended fasting (the pros, cons, and dangers), and what can, in fact, be eaten during your fast.

Using this book as a helpful guide, you can learn how to go about fasting in a way that is healthy and non-destructive and can potentially greatly improve your health and overall life quality, as well as longevity. It is possible for you to live longer, feel better, and live better with the knowledge found in the following chapters.

There are plenty of books on this subject on the market, thanks again for choosing this one! Every effort was made to ensure it is full of as much useful information as possible. Please enjoy!

Chapter 1: Why Fast

Perhaps the most well-known fasting is that of the religious holy time of Ramadan in which participants fast for thirty days, sun up to sun down before a large evening meal to break the daily fast before starting all over. While this sounds like a perfect opportunity to gain fat and lose muscle mass, clinical research suggests that this is not actually true, and in fact heart disease generally decreases during Ramadan.

Intermittent fasting (sometimes abbreviated as IF) is the practice of occasionally going for extended periods of time without eating. Most people practice intermittent fasting and are not even aware of it. When we sleep, we are going through several hours of fasting. There are several reasons for fasting – scarcity of food supplies, religion, the intention of improving a physique, certain dietary requirements. In fact, this is nothing new, and there is modern evidence that supports the practice of intermittent fasting improves a person's lifespan, help control blood glucose (or, blood sugar) levels, help manage body weight, and maintain or establish lean fat. Over time, fasting has developed from a non-optional result of food scarcity to the choice of those seeking improved health and physical appearance. Despite the surrounding negative stigma and eating disorder concerns that must be addressed, evidence suggests, in general, fasting – when done properly – promotes healthier, longer lives.

Many modern Americans struggle not only with insecurity regarding their body weight and appearance but also with multiple heavily concerning health issues such as cancer, stress and the related physical damage it causes, high blood pressure, excessive body fat and deeply frustrating trouble losing that fat. Intermittent fasting done in a healthy, safe way can provide answers to combat all of those problems. Fasting strengthens and reinforces appetite control, heart health, the effectiveness of chemotherapy, neurogenesis, blood sugar control through lower and more stables and increased insulin sensitivity. The time at which these benefits occur differs between individuals, exercise levels, and their lifestyles, but generally full effects are achieved after approximately 24 hours. Those who live more