Intermittent fasting for women over 50 jennifer anniston

Introduction

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

- Buddha

Being healthy is a choice. Maintaining a healthy weight is a choice. Being happy is a choice. Your choices can significantly impact your life for the better or worse. What choice do you want to make for yourself?

Take a moment to think about how you feel in your own body. Now, think about how you want to feel, and envision it. The power to reach that goal is in your hands, and one lifestyle choice can help you get there.

Intermittent fasting has gained popularity and its following continues to grow every year. If it didn’t deliver what it promised, why would so many people be doing it? If intermittent fasting didn’t work, why would there be so many success stories? People don’t do something unless they reap some sort of benefit from it. In the case of fasting, those benefits include health and weight loss.

Forget about unrealistically restrictive portions, ridiculously low calories that need to be counted meticulously, juicing, and every other aspect of a traditional ‘diet’. Everybody knows that crash dieting is unhealthy and that fad diets come and go. Everybody also knows the results don’t stick around for the long haul. Soon after you end your torturous diet, the weight comes straight back and you’re unhappy and have to start all over again. Typical ‘diets’ are traps that lock you into a yo-yo effect that can be hard to break once you start and take their toll on your health. Not intermittent fasting.

Intermittent fasting doesn’t have any of the hallmarks of a diet because it isn’t a diet; it’s a lifestyle. It’s a healthy change that works and it’s easier than you may think. We’re going to tell you:

What intermittent fasting is.

How it works.

What the benefits are.

The different types of fasting.

How to do it.

What you can expect.

Tips and tricks to help you along the way.

And so much more.

You picked this book up because you have an interest in improving your health, losing weight, and feeling great. Everything you need to know about using intermittent fasting to achieve that is right here, in this book. All you need to do is to keep reading to learn how to unlock the secrets of fasting for real results that last.

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All About Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent fasting isn’t a fad. It’s not a flash-in-the-pan diet promoted by celebrities until the next big thing comes along. Intermittent fasting is real, and it works. The practice may only have gained popularity in recent decades, but the idea behind the benefits intermittent fasting offers has been around for longer than you may think.

Fasting

Fasting refers to abstaining from food or drink, sometimes both. It’s done for a variety of reasons, including religion, health, and rituals. Fasting may be done completely, with no food and/or drink consumption, or partially. The length of fasting can vary from short periods to longer durations. Fasting may even be intermittent or in intervals. Irrespective of how, why, and how long you fast, it is important to understand that during a fasting period your food and/or drink intake is going to be very limited or not at all.

Fasting as Medicine

Fasting has been used as a therapeutic form of medicine for millennia. The earliest instances can be traced as far back as the 5th century BC. It was at this time that Hippocrates, an ancient Greek physician, recommended that patients displaying symptoms of some diseases engage in fasting practices to help treat or reverse these diseases. There were still other physicians who recognized that patients displaying symptoms of some diseases were instinctively inclined to fast when feeling ill. They recognized that some illnesses led to a loss of appetite which, in turn, would lead to voluntary fasting, completely or partially. The thought was that fasting caused by a loss of appetite was a natural part of the body’s healing process, and physicians stopped trying to make patients eat if they didn’t want to.

Therapeutic forms of fasting have gone on to be used as a treatment for obesity, and the effects have been studied since at least the early 20th century. A renewed interest in fasting for weight loss began in the 1960s, and there has been an increasing amount of research done since then to determine the benefits of fasting in intervals for health and weight loss.

During the 20th century, our understanding of nutrition and what the human body needs began to evolve and continue to develop as more research and studies are conducted. The ways to fast and approaches to fasting have become more refined as our knowledge of the subject of health and weight loss has grown. Fasting has now emerged as a method for treating, and even preventing, some diseases, with more and more research studies yielding positive results.

What is Intermittent Fasting?

Many people mistake intermittent fasting for a diet. It’s not about what you eat; the focus is on when you eat. It comes down to an eating pattern, scheduling when to eat and when to fast. Sometimes it may be easier to think of intermittent fasting as interval fasting.

While intermittent fasting isn’t centered on what you eat, following a healthy diet does enhance the effects. It’s not going to do you any good to fast at intervals if you are going to fill up on junk food in between. Likewise, controlling your calorie intake is also important. Fasting won’t be effective if you overeat or indulge in eating binges in between fasting periods.

When practicing intermittent fasting, you cycle between periods of fasting and periods of eating normally. This can be done in various ways, such as fasting all day on certain days of the week or fasting for certain hours of the day. We will cover types of intermittent fasting in later chapters. For now, let’s discuss how and why intermittent fasting and the benefits it has.

How Does Intermittent Fasting Work?

Intermittent fasting works because it puts your body into a fasted state, which affects not only calories being burned, but also hormones within your body. To understand exactly how intermittent fasting works to help you lose weight, we need to examine the effects it has on your body.

Fasted State

Intermittent fasting is in sharp contrast with typical eating patterns. Normally, human beings will eat regularly throughout the hours they are awake. A healthy waking-hour eating pattern involves three meals per day--breakfast, lunch, and dinner--along with two snacks in between meals. The problem lies with an increasingly sedentary lifestyle.

Many westerners sit in front of a computer in an office for most of the day. With TV and mobile technology, sitting on the couch after work has become a normal part of life. Often people don’t include regular exercise in their lifestyle, and junk food is another big problem. It’s laden with more calories than you may realize; most of which are completely empty and offer you no nutritional value. All of this sitting around doesn’t burn much in the way of calories.

Therefore, whenever you eat, your body burns the calories from your food for fuel. The calories you consume are broken down into sugars, which are first absorbed into your bloodstream. From there, excess sugar in your bloodstream is stored in your liver and muscles. Once those stores are full, any excess sugar gets converted and stored as fat.

If you are taking in too many calories each day and not burning them off, your body burns as much as it needs and then stores the rest as fat. Burning only the calories that you consume means that your body doesn’t dig into its fat stores for fuel. When you are only burning the calories you take in, your weight will remain stable. Your weight will increase if you are not able to burn off all of those calories.

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