Newbies: How to Start Fasting - Fasting and Furious

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Newbies: How to Start Fasting

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If you are not very ill with diabetes or cancer, I recommend that you start getting into "fat-burning mode" by not eating after mid-evening (or missing breakfast) and then gradually narrow your eating window. Intermittent Fasting is very much more effective and easy if you combine it with the Lower-Carbohydrate, Higher-Fat (LCHF) diet. This helps weight-loss by helping to get you into fat-burning mode. Eat "normal" food, but cut way down on sugar and high-carbohydrate and refined carb foods like bread, cake, biscuits, pasta, potato etc. - and eat more high -fat foods which satiate and decrease craving for snacks. You do not have to be too masochistic... see how you feel and change the plan accordingly.

Limiting my weight loss to one pound a week helped prevent me from getting loose skin.

By limiting my weight loss to one pound a week, I was able to transition seamlessly from weight-loss to maintenance - the transition into maintenance is what many people get wrong.

You can, of course, reduce your weekly weight-loss as you approach your target weight.

Limiting my weight-loss to one pound a week prevented me from getting hungry or feeling faint... If you are feeling faint, then, perhaps you might be losing weight too fast?

Many people with a great deal of weight to lose can initially lose weight faster than two pounds a week.

Here is a brief video by Dr Berg, explaining the advantages of Intermittent Fasting over Low-calorie dieting. (IF stimulates your metabolism):

youtu.be/mDGcXTGWzaY

moreless found this video, by Dr Berg, which explains how you can gradually “get into Intermittent Fasting” (over weeks and months) without making any sudden changes:

youtu.be/lwCRjwDs1Ek

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