My 3 Part Program For a Healthier Lifestyle: Focus on Fasting

Lets Review Our Three Part Program

1. Food choices- We need to learn and find healthy alternatives to sugar, wheat and processed food. This “ingredients” are making us sick and fat. By? limiting and eliminating sugar, wheat or processed food you will lose weight quicker, feel healthier and? move better.

2. Intermittent Fast– There are many types of intermittent fasts to choice from but consistent fasting is key.? When you fast you use the fat that is on your body to burn for energy and you lean up.

3. Workout- At least 3 days a week is recommended to workout each week. Along with working out stretching twice a day is so important. Find other exercise or activities to keep you moving.

Focus on Fasting Today

Many people are a bit intimidated when they hear the word “fast”. Often when I bring the intermittent fasting up, people get a dazed look on there face and reply “like not eat?” After a week of working with someone I hear, “Wow that’s easier then I thought, and I lost 2-3 lbs a week.”

You may fast without even realizing it. Yes!?!? If you ever stopped eating at around 8:00 pm only to wake have a crazy morning and not eat til 12 for lunch, you have fasted. It’s called the 16:8 fast. There are different types of fasts to tailor your lifestyle. For me I like the 5:2 fast basically I would eat healthy 5 days and 2 days eat 500 calories. Since I worked out on Monday Wednesday Friday, my fast days were Tuesday and Thursday.There are different styles of intermittent fasting that could work into anyone’s lifestyle, you just need to find what works for you….

Tips To Fast

Be Prepared-??Shop, chop, bag all veggies, boil eggs, grill chicken, bottles of water have your food choices planned for the day. Remember protein and veggies are 90% of your food choices on fast days and 10% fruit.

Plan Your Day- Either choice a fast day on a day you are going to be super busy or a easy day. Its your call some like to have the day move fast and not think about eating other people would rather be relaxed and not exert as much energy. Its really a personal preference.

Stash a Snack –Throw an apple in your pocketbook or a baggie of favorite veggies in the car to snack on. Its a lot easier to have restraint while snacking on something.

Think 3 lbs-? All day think remind yourself that if you can stick to your strict fast day rules you will easily lose 2-3lbs a week. I would lose this on average and I see it with the people I work with. Remind yourself that the fast is temporary and the benefit of the fast will be success at the end of the week.

How the Three Parts of the Program Work Together

So lets think about the program as a whole to summarize and see why the fast is so important to your success. We are already working on our food choices by eliminating the foods that are making us sick and fat (sugar, wheat, and processed food) Friends who are not able to workout (injuries)? are still easily dropping weight week after week just changing food choice as we work on our daily logs.??Now add 3 day workout for 40 mins to an hour a week. Working out will tone and build muscles and aid to losing.?But add a great week of fasting, staying within your calorie count for the two days for the week your almost guaranteed to lost 2-3 lbs a week easily. The combination of all three seem to make the fasting accelerate weight loss, like a super fast….

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