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Tuesday, 16 October 2018

ACCEPTABLE LIQUIDS IN INTERMITTENT FASTING

October 16, 2018 0
ACCEPTABLE LIQUIDS IN INTERMITTENT FASTING

Hey guys listen we're talk about liquids intermittent fasting and keep ptosis I get a lot of questions and can I drink this during a manifesting when I'm supposed to be fasting is again interfere with my fat


LIQUIDS IN INTERMITTENT FASTING

TEA IN INTERMITTENT FASTING
Can you drink tea absolutely you can now tea and coffee do have caffeine?

Obviously, you cannot drink too much if you drink a small amount of tea and has some caffeine it's probably not going to be a problem at all large amounts of caffeine can start stimulating insulin but small amounts don't seem to have an affect okay so TEA. is okay.


LIQUIDS IN INTERMITTENT FASTING

COFFEE IN INTERMITTENT FASTING
okay let's talk about coffee again I think one in the morning would be great and I know some people get really upset because I.

Yeah they're used to drinking it all day long and I say I'm try to take away from them and I don't want to do that because of the addiction I mean the craving that they have but the point is that too much coffee can rather the adrenals enacted a quarter so which can then activate insulin okay so that's the problem because it's a stimulant and stainless steel drill now caffeine also stimulates adrenaline which actually does help fat burning by the way but I wouldn't drink coffee to lose weight all right.

No one in the morning I think it's gonna be fine now as far as what to put in it is milk or cream gonna be a problem from just working with lots of people it's not really a problem if you do small amounts now let's talk about IT adding the bullet proof which is the better and their for some people they can do it other people it's almost as if they're taking a meal because they're consuming a good amount of butter in there so I mean if you want to use that as a meal I mean go for it but if we're trying to do in a minute fasting we're trying to fasten not add that much fat into even the times you know suppose speeding because anything will trigger insulin.


Sugar we wanted to check in absolutely not. You can put sugar a little I don't know if I would want to put Stevie in there because it that would be kind of a weird taste but a small amount of coffee is okay as long as you don't add sugar and you just a small amount of cream and maybe a little better with some people they can get away with that other people can't so I have had mixed reviews on that so now if you do a coffee bean extract there are certain final nutrients in the coffee bean that are really beneficial for insulin resistance and that's probably what helps some people lose weight but if they don't have is the resistance is not gonna happen is wait again that's the coffee bean extract thing I don't want to get into that but as far as when you roast the coffee you kill all those phytonutrients okay because your heating it way up so that's coffee tried new small amount.

WATER IN INTERMITTENT FASTING

What is not going to be a problem you can drink water when you're on the ketogenic diet you are gonna lose some water so don't be afraid to drink it I just like to add electrolytes to it just because normally you gonna lose some electrolytes not just potassium but Saul to some people that all doesn't feel very kind of fatigue during the ketosis diet or even in fasting.

I get a little bit of salt and boom they just kind of perked right up so could be either salt or potassium.

But of course don't do the tap water deuce filtered water or I like unspoiled unlike public Reno the best myself so I'll drink a good amount of that every day.

For some other spring water bottle water I love carbon water myself carbonation does not interfere with either one of these at all.

Now vitamin water use it comes a lot of sugar don't do that okay.

BONE BROTH IN INTERMITTENT FASTING

Bone broth is actually a really good thing to consume even between your times that you're eating in the times you're fasting because you're getting a lot of electrolytes with not a lot of calories okay so I think this is totally fine to do and electrolytes in the nutrition and that would actually help overcome the ketogenic flu or any symptoms that you might have so this is okay.

This is okay.

DIET SODA IN INTERMITTENT FASTING

No, because as per tIme will increase core insulin so this artificial sweeteners will increase insulin but if you buy it like a diet so that is with stevia.

Or a solid home or with which all that's non GMO that would be fine some gonna say no for diet sodas.

LIQUIDS IN INTERMITTENT FASTING

APPLE CIDAR VINEGAR IN INTERMITTENT FASTING

Very okay help sort of vinegar will help regulate blood sugars it's great to help you if you have a fatty liver it's great for digestion making insulin more sort of glucose more sensitive so the nutrients and goes down this is a real good

ALCOHOL IN INTERMITTENT FASTING
Alcohol just keep it below six pack a night, No,alcohol. There certain types of alcohol that have low calories but still the alcohol will hit the liver function and completely knock you out of ketosis so don't consume alcohol.

COCONUT WATER IN INTERMITTENT FASTING

This is now this is in now because it has quite a bit of sugar yes it has electrolytes but it has a lot of sugar case I don't recommend it again if your metabolism is really fast you might be able to get away with it but I'm just telling you in general if any type of sugar Juice and in like that will raise the incident now also you have unsweetened cranberry juice if you put in water and ice to recommend.

LIQUIDS IN INTERMITTENT FASTING

ALMOND MILK
Almond Milk usually you want to get it unsweetened and you can have some of that it's there's not a lot of sugar and not usually sometimes there are some that do have hidden sugars but as long as as low sugar is it's going to be okay I forgot to add milk well milk is something you probably would not want to add to this list.

Because milk does have a bit of sugar but again a little bit of milk in your coffee with the okay get the grass fed organic all right.



How to do Intermittent Fasting for Serious Weight Loss

October 16, 2018 0
How to do Intermittent Fasting for Serious Weight Loss
Hey guys October here in this video we're gonna share with you the power of the intermittent fasting okay now in fasting is a tool it's not a diet doesn't tell you what to eat it's a pattern of beating okay it's is a pattern of eating and not eating you it's not about cutting calories is just changing when you eat and when you don't eat okay so that's what I'm talking about so why would you want to do this anyway because it is.

Intermittent Fasting for Serious Weight Loss


One if not the most important factor in serious fat burning, okay.


 

Let's talk about why because it triggers two main hormones in your body the most powerful ones one is growth hormone which is anti-aging and the most powerful fat burning hormone there six separate hormones growth hormone is the most powerful fat burning hormone to protect your muscles to build not lean body mass and also just to lose actual fact okay.

And then you have insulin insulin is also a very powerful hormone in that it actually will help you store fat if you want to gain weight which you don't want to do that you want to lose weight but here's the thing in the presence of insulin you cannot lose weight it's such a dominating hormone it will block growth hormone so it's the hormone that makes you fat it's the hormone that gives you the god if you see someone with a fat gut they have too much insulin.
Intermittent Fasting for Serious Weight Loss

So these are the two powerful hormones that you're gonna influence now let's look at what's happening.

This tool for technique can.

Really he'll insulin resistance we have the pancreas.

Pumping out way more insulin then you need five to seven times because what happens when you have too much insulin the cell star blocking it and then your body doesn't get the return communication so it's like taking your child and they have your plugs you're gonna increase your volume because a person's ignoring you there's no two way communication so with the pancreas doesn't give the feedback that the insulin is connecting it sends more insulin.

Through the channel, so you have a situation where you have a resistance of insulin is not working.

Low insulin in the self low glucose but then you have high amounts of insulin and other places which is very destructive because its pre-diabetes creates a lot of problems okay so what we wanna do is wanna start where you're at and then graduate this way over time it's kind of like there are different levels of intermittent fasting from not intermittent fasting to some serious fat burning over here.

So let's see struck with by mills Adair signals six meals a day breakfast lunch snack some people do breakfast snack lunch snack dinner snack right that's a lot of people to do that.

The principal of intermittent fasting hormonally is that every time you eat you spike insulin.

           Intermittent Fasting for Serious Weight Loss


See people have thought that only when you become a hydrogen spike and said no no no eating general increase in some network also what you eat even a snack universe healthy so we have a situation where this person's spiking Anson all day long buys are not designed to eat graze all day long so we want to switch to three meals a day an of snacks okay.

So that's the first step three meals a day no snacking the ability to go from a mail to the next without being hungry.

Involves eating more fat okay see if they have more fat to that meal I'm gonna put some links down what T. but this is this video is not about what to eat it's about the pattern.

So you get three meals here and then if you want to take it to the next level and bring even more fat you wanna do a pattern of sixteen eight sixteen hours of fasting.

An eight hour window of eating okay so let's see you get up in the morning and you're not hungry will delete wait until you're hungry the ideal situation is to go for four hours when you wake up for at least four hours before you meet the first meal so let's say you're you get you eat at ten o'clock okay in the morning.

So when you got up at six.

That means that your last meal is going to be at six o'clock at night seven eight hour window.

Where this you might get up in it eight then you might have either at eight at night so you really haven't given enough fasting a little bit in between but not the real power of in a minute fasting.

Intermittent Fasting for Serious Weight Loss

Is through the night in in the morning and that actually at like at night time when you're sleeping and then in the morning that's when you really have the uninterrupted serious fat burning not necessarily as much between the meals but it is a factor so that's one one sixteen hours of fasting with this so we try to keep that window you have you three meals okay.

That makes sense now if we wanna take it even further in really turn on the fat burning you we want to go to two meals.

But we wanna a window of twenty hours of fasting you know what that would do to your your waistline your stomach.

So we over twenty hours intermittent fasting in only for our window of eating.

So we want we want to get up in wait until let's say twelve o'clock or one have the first meal.

They have the next meal four hours later so let's say you get you that one and then your next meal is at five.

Okay so you have four hours there were you basically you eight but then you have twenty hours of serious happening if we'd then add in a minute fat exercised about high-intensity interval training then it's it's over that would be the icing on the cake will emissions icing okay that's gonna be the meat potatoes now don't don't don't listen to me but the point is that it's going to take some time to transition over to these different levels okay don't think it happens in a minute if you've destroyed your metabolism through dieting or the H. C. G. die which is five hundred calories or some other stress of an.

Then what's going to happen is going to take some time to gradually kind of move over to the next one but you'll get comfortable we don't want you to be.

Had a key and have a lot of side effects between the mail so you want to overtime in this transition from here to here could take you know three weeks but this one could take a month or two or even three months before you get to this point could take even longer but then you're really burning fat okay so I just want to cover what the powerful the power of this what it is and how you would do it starting here and gradually over here all right put your comments below thanks for watching.

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Saturday, 6 October 2018

The Complete Guide to Intermittent Fasting

October 06, 2018 0
The Complete Guide to Intermittent Fasting
How many times have you heard that you have to eat a little many times a day?



You've tried?

I do not know about you, but for me it's torture.

Also, if you eat little, many times a day, you do not have the opportunity to prepare meals that taste delicious.
Intermittent Fasting

Forget about hamburgers, chilaquiles, or tacos.

I do not say that they are the healthiest foods, but tell me if you do not cheer up the day?

Carrying healthy nutrition is not about being perfect every day all day, it's about progressing.

And sometimes it is necessary to give yourself tastes to keep you on the road.

Intermittent fasting is a very effective way to achieve this, sacrificing very little, and also has many health benefits, from helping to maintain a caloric deficit, to look younger and give you more years of life.

Intermittent fasting guide


Intermittent fasting is the most natural thing in the world and today you will learn everything about it.

Welcome to the Complete Guide on Intermittent Fasting.



The fear of not eating for a while
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We have a real fear of not eating.

How many times have you felt "a little hungry" and immediately go to the refrigerator to eat the first thing you see?

We do not like to feel hungry because it is uncomfortable.

And believe me, the discomfort is right.

As the saying goes:


Intermittent Fasting

"No calm sea made an expert a sailor"



Discomfort is a fundamental part of the human being.

This is how we evolved; this is how we grow.

But in our modern life, feeling a bit of discomfort is something we can not afford.






Be honest, how many times have you eaten when you were not hungry? ... and you ate only because "it was time to eat".

And I'll be honest, when I heard about intermittent fasting, something inside of me died.



Are you saying that I'm not going to eat anything? ... Are you crazy?



That's right ... very deep inside I knew that this was not going to be fun.

I thought that not eating for a while was going to make me the saddest and most grumpy person in the world.

But I was very wrong.

This completely changed my life and helped me achieve my goals more efficiently.

mike sculpts your body

In the photo on the left, he ate "normally", on the right the result of intelligent training and intermittent fasting is shown.

But why did he think he was going to suffer?

Simple: MYTHS AND MARKETING.


Intermittent Fasting

Marketing and nutritional myths
The marketing of the food industry teaches us to eat at all times.

To have breakfast because it is the "most important food of the day".

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Aha ... I can not imagine how a ration of refined sugar with processed cereals could be the best way to start the day.

Marketing "teaches" what suits us and is beneficial to us ... or that's what they tell you.

Reality is very different, and science proves it again and again.

Besides, the myths have left us many scars as far as nutrition is concerned.

By "scars" I mean wrong information.

For example, that your metabolism will slow down if you do not eat every 3 hours ...

(The irony of this, is that it is, on the contrary, our metabolism accelerates slightly when we are fasting. )

or that the sugar goes down ...

(Again, on the contrary, the body perfectly regulates the body's glucose, and those who have problems with insulin resistance, intermittent fasting helps to regain sensitivity to it.)

... or that you are going to get fat because your body "keeps fat".

( Another nonsense: studies show clearly that fasting is a great tool to lose body fat)

etc etc…

But if we realize that fasting is our natural state, maybe the way we see fasting is different.

That is, do you think that the human evolved eating every 3 hours?


Most likely not.


Probably our ancestors hunted a large animal, feasted, and did not eat for many hours afterward.

But I advance to the subject.

In this post, you will learn all about intermittent fasting, and for that, we must begin with the first: What is intermittent fasting?



What is Intermittent Fasting?

Intermittent fasting is limiting your food intake on the day to a few hours.

I want to exercise but I do not have time

In the other hours you do not eat absolutely anything, you can only drink non-caloric beverages, such as coffee (without sugar or cream), teas, or light drinks.

As simple as that.

When you eat, the food is broken down by your body into several molecules that are released into the bloodstream, and that your cells can use.

Insulin is released too, and its job is to allow nutrients to "enter" the cells.

Depending on how much you have eaten, your insulin levels can remain elevated for several hours (from 3 to 6 or more hours)9 .

When your body is digesting and absorbing what you ate, it is said to be in a "fed" or "postpatrial" state.

Only when your body has finished absorbing the food, and the insulin returns to its minimum levels, is that you are "fasting".

Every day your body moves between these two states (fed, fasted), and the purpose of intermittent fasting is to extend the amount of time you spend in the fasting state.

There are several intermittent fasting protocols, each with its pros and cons.

Choose the protocol you choose, intermittent fasting is very convenient if you want to lose weight.

If you want to gain weight or gain muscle faster, you can also do so to get the benefits it brings to health.

Like many answers in fitness, the best is always: "it depends".

It depends on your goals, situation, preferences, lifestyle, etc.

But if there is something constant with intermittent fasting, it is the benefits it has on health.



Health benefits of intermittent fasting


All commercial diets have one thing in common:

They sell you an idea that is supposed to "change everything completely".

Either the diet of negative calories, or the alkaline diet, or any other ...

They all promise you a "completely different" system.



But intermittent fasting has many benefits that no other diet has.


For example, fasting activates a physiological process called " autophagy ", which is responsible for the recycling of cells in the body.

Autophagy has a fundamental role in maintaining muscle mass11 and neutralize some degenerative aspects of aging.

In fact, it is the main mechanism of the anti-aging benefits of caloric restriction.

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That's right, intermittent fasting can make you look younger and live longer.



Intermittent fasting can make you look younger and live longer .


If you do not believe me, believe the monkeys:
Look at the image below, and tell me which of the two monkeys seems healthier :

intermittent fasting live longer

Clearly, the monkey on the right has much more vigor, and looks much younger, although both are 24 years old (the life expectancy of a rhesus monkey is 27 years).

It turns out that in this study, the monkey on the left ate without restriction, while the monkey on the right was with periods of caloric restriction14.

The study was conducted to have more evidence of whether humans can be benefited by caloric restriction since "rhesus" monkeys are very similar physiologically to humans.

The caloric restriction has been tested with worms, flies, spiders, rats, dogs, cows, etc., and in all cases, the life expectancy of each species has increased.

This is probably due to the fact that excess blood glucose can be a key factor in aging

And if living longer and looking younger seems like little, fasting also reduces systemic inflammation and oxidative damage.


Intermittent Fasting

Remember what we talked about earlier about insulin?


As it turns out, intermittent fasting also helps improve insulin sensitivity19 and increase growth hormone levels.

Other benefits of intermittent fasting include the following :

Help against cancer by depriving the cancer cells of glucose, and reduces the growth of tumors.
Enhances the effectiveness of cancer treatments.
It can reduce the risk of cancer throughout life.
Reduces IGF-1 levels (promoter of increased cells, but dangerous for those who have cancer).
Increase SIRT3 protein (known as the youth protein).
Reduces triglycerides and improves the blood lipid profile.
Improves neuronal plasticity.
People with type 2 diabetes responded better to this type of diet.
Activates mitophagy (is the autophagy of mitochondria) that rejuvenate and reduce the disease.
Helps increase the ketone bodies (help to obtain energy without glucose and to protect the neurons).
Looking at it in a simpler way, intermittent fasting allows your body to "cleanse" your body, and it works almost like a reset button.

And the goal of intermittent fasting is precisely to press that button more often.

There is no doubt that intermittent fasting is healthy, but is it for everyone?

Intermittent fasting protocols

NOTE: I made a guide that shows you the most effective intermittent fasting protocols.



Those who should not fast
Intermittent fasting, as we have seen, is quite noble. But there is a certain group of people who would be better off refraining from doing so.

Basically, they are pregnant women or those who think about getting pregnant, and people who have had eating disorders.

Pregnancy





Obviously, the first segment that should not fast is pregnant women.

Studies have been done on pregnant women who fasted during Ramadan (15 hours fasting) and interesting things were found.

One study found that the growth of the fetus slowed down but grew more efficiently .

Another study found that fasting during Ramadan had no negative effects on the development of the fetus.

In general, no negative effects have been found in pregnant women doing 15-hour fasts , but it is better not to take any risks .

So I would not recommend you to fast if you're pregnant.

It is better to follow your maternal instinct here and better eat when you are hungry .

Similarly, if you are thinking about starting a family soon, better abstain and fast because it may interfere slightly with your fertility38 .

Eating disorders
How to Find the Motivation to Stop Exercising

If you have suffered from eating disorders, it is not a good idea to start with intermittent fasting.

If you are a teenager, it is not a good idea to do intermittent fasting either, because it has been seen that it may bring about eating disorders in the future39 .

We saw then who should not fast, but if you are not in these groups, and you want to start with the intermittent fasting, you can continue reading:



If I do not exercise, is it recommended to fast?
In this 8-week study, we compared a group of people who only ate once a day, and another who did it 3 times a day.40 .

Neither group exercised weights, and their protein intake was low (15% of their daily calories).

It was found that people who ate only once a day did not get used to that intermittent fasting style .

This tells us that maybe there is a limit on the minimum number of meals you can make per day.

In this case, it seems to indicate that a single meal a day is not as recommendable in terms of adherence.

It was also found that muscle mass remained intact in both groups .

The interesting thing about this is that, although both groups ingested practically the same amount of calories (there was only a difference of 69 cals, which is something insignificant), the group that only made one meal a day, managed to lose more weight and reduce your percentage of body fat more than the group of 3 meals a day.



So, how does this apply to you?


Look, the participants were eating calories at maintenance levels , and despite that, those who ate once a day lost some weight.

This tells us that, if you want to lose weight, and you do not exercise resistance, it is a good idea to fast, but do not do it only once a day, as it may hinder adherence to this style of fasting.

A better way to do it may be skipping breakfast .

If you do not exercise, I recommend that it be the first thing you do from now on, it is much more important than you think .

Ok ... but what if I do exercise?


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Fasting cardiovascular training
body mass index

Fasting cardiovascular training can be an ally to help eliminate those last places of unruly fat .



This is achieved because of the blood flow in the abdominal region increases when you are fasting41 , which helpseliminate that last rebellious fatof that region.

That's why it's a good strategy to mark your abdomen more .

This is because, when you do cardio or weights on an empty stomach, the body does not have enough glucose to take the energy to make that effort, which makes you use the energy stored in it: body fat.

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Studies show that doing cardio in fasting increases lipolysis42 (the adipose cell releases the contained fatty acid) and theoxidation of fat43 (the use of that fatty acid as energy).

That is, it helps you mobilize body fat, and then use it as energy .



Intermittent fasting helps mobilize body fat, and then use it as energy.



And if you can do HIIT , it would be a help combo to eliminate the unruly fat because it also helps to increase the level of catecholamines .

The catecholamines are neurotransmitters such as adrenaline and noradrenaline , which help your cell receptors to release the fatty acids contained in them .






But it has its disadvantages :
Cardio on an empty stomach is not the best strategy if your goal is physical performance or muscle gain , because it increases the rates of protein degradation .

This means that if you damage and degrade too many muscle cells in your workouts, your body will not be able to repair itself in time , and you can lose muscle over time .

But do not worry, you can do intermittent fasting and still leave your muscle intact or even have muscle gains, as long as you know what to do .

So let's see that right now.



Fasting and muscle gain
Many people have the impression that fasting can interfere with muscle gains.

This has some truth, but it is not the whole truth.

In some studies, it is shown that reducing food intake to only 2-3 hours did not have an effect on muscle loss in rats46 .






Studies conducted in humans show similar results.

Like this, where it was found that, in humans, restricting food to only 4 hours a day on days off from training did not interfere with muscle gain significantly compared to the control group47 .

In addition, participants who made this protocol, commented that the "difficulty" to follow this diet was 3.8 on a scale of 10.



That is, quite easy to follow.


Of course, if they were not restricted at all, they could eat whatever they wanted , as long as it was within those 4 hours they could eat.

The detail is that there was a lot of variability in how the participants responded .

Another problem with this protocol is that most participants did not reach an optimal protein intake for muscle building.

This is logical, if you only eat in a range of 4 hours a day, you will be easily satiated, causing you to not be able to ingest enough food from the proteins.

Although, as we said before, everything depends on your goals.

If you want to maximize your muscle gain, then you better eat 3-4 times a day and avoid spending a lot of time without eating .

As this study shows, where higher protein synthesis was found in 4 meals a day, than eating 8 or 2 times a day48 .

And this other study shows that eating regularly (3 meals a day) can help you gain more muscle mass than doing intermittent fasting49 .

Does this mean you should not do intermittent fasting if you want to gain muscle?



Not necessarily.


This is shown by this study that found that there was no significant change in muscle mass between the group that ate regularly and the one that did intermittent fasting .

But you should keep in mind that maybe it is not the best strategy to see results in the gym more quickly .

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Now, if you want to decrease your percentage of body fat, then intermittent fasting is a very good option.

And if you know what you do, you will not lose muscle mass.

For example, the University of Padova conducted a study comparing people who fasted for 16 hours, and people who did not51 . Both groups trained weights 3 times a week.

The results were that both groups maintained their muscle mass , but the group that fasted lost 1.6 kg of body fat , while in the other group there was no change in this aspect.

This shows us that, if you do intermittent fasting, the ideal would be that you train with resistance exercises (weights).



And it is that, it is logical ...


Your body is highly adaptable.

You need to carry heavy things and you have the necessary nutrients = the muscles grow.

It does not need to move = it atrophies the muscles because it does not need them .



Your body, not having a stimulus for which you must maintain your muscles; what you are going to do is precisely, decrease the volume of these .

The key then, if you want to do intermittent fasting and not lose muscle, is to train with resistance exercises and have an adequate intake of protein per day (1.6 - 2 gr per kilo of body weight)52 .



How to fast
Intermittent fasting protocols

NOTE: I made a guide that shows you the most effective intermittent fasting protocols.

It's totally free and you can download it by clicking here .

There are many intermittent fasting protocols.

But I'll recommend two: " Leangains ", and " Eat Stop Eat ".

Leangains (also known as 16/8):

  • Basically, you just have to skip breakfast, having a fast known as 16/8 .
  • That is, you spend 16 hours fasting, and a window of 8 hours to eat.
  • It is recommended to fast in the morning to sleep without hunger and not affect your sleep.
  • I already talked more about this and you can check the article by clicking here .
  • It is done daily.
  • Eat Stop Eat:
  • This is a different fast, and it is about having fasts for 24 hours, twice a week .
  • It is a longer fasting, but it is very effective too.
  • 2 days a week, but on non-consecutive days , you will fast for 24 hours.
  • For example: breakfast, lunch, NO dinner, NO breakfast the next day, YES eat the next day and YES dinners the next day.
  • You let another day pass, and you can go back to another 24-hour fast.
  • The recommendation is that you do not spend more than 24 hours fasting .
  • If you want to know more about each protocol (and 3 more), you can download my intermittent fasting guide.


Yes, yes, yes ... it sounds very nice ... but how do you think I will not stop eating ?



How to hold your first fasts
It is possible that, the first time you fast, the world comes to you.

You will have hunger, headache, irritation ...

But this is normal, and it's just a clue that your body is adapting to this new stimulus .

You will see how, after a few days or weeks, fasting becomes the most normal thing in the world .

There are even studies that show that intermittent fasting improves mood, symptoms of dedepression,ndimproves mental alertness56 .



But at the beginning it is difficult.


Do not worry, there are ways to mitigate this problem .

The most important in my experience is drinking coffee .

Coffee, and especially decaffeination, is an appetite suppressant .

The great advantage of decaffeinated coffee is that it does not alter you .






In addition, studies have found that hunger decreased by 3 hours after taking it.

Another strategy to endure your first fasts, is to drink a lot of water .

Many times, what we think is hunger, is really thirst .

Take the test today, when you start to feel a little hungry, take a glass of water.

You will see how in reality, it was not hunger, but thirst.

Okay. You finished your fast ... and now what?

Are you going to ask for double ration of everything?

No ... ideally, you should eat normally.

And that's what we're going for ...



What to eat after fasting
The usual: many vegetables, protein, and unrefined carbohydrates.

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Eat as you normally would at home; as long as you have an idea of how to put together a good plate of food .

What you should keep in mind is that when you finish your fast, it is better to distribute your protein intake 3-4 times a day58 .

Look for between 20-40gr of protein per intake.

The great advantage of intermittent fasting is that, thanks to fasting, you can have larger meals.

But you still can not get rid of the energy balance.

So first, you have to calculate how many calories you need , and then your macronutrients :



Calories> protein> fats> carbohydrates.


If you do not want to count calories (super effective), you can measure your portions (moderately effective).

The vast majority of people will have no problem if they follow these recommendations.

But there is a percentage of people who do not seem to tolerate fasting well:



Women and fasting
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Most women do not have problems with intermittent fasting.

But there is some evidence that shows that they do not respond as well to fasting as men do.

If you try for some time and feel that you can not adapt to fasting, or your periods become irregular, or you have any of these symptoms , better return to eat as you did regularly.

your period is irregular
it's hard for you to sleep or stay asleep
your hair starts to fall
develop acne
you do not recover well from your workouts
your tolerance to stress decreases
you lack of sexual desire
your digestion is noticeably encouraged
you are always cold
If on the contrary, you fast and you feel great, then you can continue doing it without a problem.



What you must not do
Intermittent fasting is one of those things where more does not mean better.

According to what we have seen, the optimal point is within 16-24 hrs of fasting .

The problems with spending hours in the fast, begin to have after 60 hours without food, and this is when it begins to slow down the metabolism62 .

And after 3 days (72 hours) without food is when the real problems begin .

As this time passes, your body begins gluconeogenesis (to take energy from proteins).

This means goodbye muscle .






But if you follow the most studied protocols, you will not have to spend as much time fasting .



And tell me ...


When I did my first transformation from past weight to skinny, I trained poorly and spent a lot of time fasting.

The result was that I lost a lot of muscle mass:

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I stayed that way for years.


Until I understood better when to use fasting and when not .

This change made that in just 11 months, training better, and lowering the frequency of fasting, will increase my muscle mass much more.

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Another thing you should avoid is to think that the rules of the energy balance stop applying with intermittent fasting.

Do not think that because you fasted all day, at night you can eat 4 bowls full of colonel's chicken.

At the end of the day, the amount of food energy is what still matters.

Intermittent fasting is a great tool to control your caloric intake.

But the true value of fasting is another.



The true value of fasting
Imagine that a fat burner , one of those that you sell in the supplement stores (and that is useless), gave you all the benefits of intermittent fasting.

It would be the best selling product of all time .

And all this you have free and literally, without doing anything .

But if intermittent fasting has an advantage, it is this: it helps you to strengthen your mental resistance to the impulses of hunger.

We have become accustomed to flee from hunger ... as if it were something really bad.

Learning to stop, and not being controlled by our impulses, will completely change your life and you will stop being a slave to cravings and anxiety when eating .

Also, it helps you feel comfortable with your hunger.

To realize that there is nothing wrong with hunger and it is very natural to feel it.

It frees you from the addiction to food, because it shows you that you were not eating out of necessity, but on a whim.






And that's another value that intermittent fasting gives you:

When you break the fast, and you have the first bite of food, you'll see how delicious each bite tastes.

It is as if the hunger you have strengthens the taste of food .

It is something that we have been losing with our current modern life.



conclusion
Intermittent fasting is a great ally to achieve your goals.

If you want to gain muscle, it can help you, but it will not be the best strategy .

If you want to lose weight, then it is very convenient because it helps you stay on the diet by not restricting food.

To avoid losing muscle mass with this protocol, it is necessary to train with weights.

Intermittent fasting is something that has a lot of variability in how each person perceives it.

For this reason, it is not completely necessary that you do it, since there will be people who come to you as a glove, and others who will hate it.

You can start with something simple, postponing your breakfast 1 hour more, and go increasing this time one hour more each week, until you eliminate breakfast completely.

Every new nutrition protocol is difficult to maintain at the beginning, and it is not different for intermittent fasting.

Give him a month to see how you feel. If after a month of trying intermittent fasting you still "suffer" for not eating, leave it.

But the safest thing is that after about 2-3 weeks, you no longer feel that voracious hunger every 3 hours.

This changes your life.

Do this to lose the fat of your belly (forever)

October 06, 2018 0
Do this to lose the fat of your belly (forever)
I wish we could wear abdomen easily. The problem is that most men and women tend to store fat around the waist, and definitely eliminate the belly is a complicated issue. Keep in mind that, for many abs you do, you will not be able to remove it from there: it's time to know the right strategies that can help you lose belly fat forever.


Incorporate HIIT workouts into your routine

For a while now, high-intensity cardio at intervals or also known as HIIT for its acronym in English has become very fashionable. According to various experts, the HIIT is definitely better for burning fat and also improves our resistance. In 2013 a study was conducted in women with obesity, in which more improvements were observed in the lipid profile (the amount of fat they burned) in those who used high-intensity training at intervals above other types of cardiovascular exercise. If the cardio of a lifetime does not work for you, try it.

Eat fat (from the good)
It has been proven that monounsaturated fatty acids reduce belly fat and you can find them in avocados, nuts, natural butter, nuts, seeds, and olive oil. You only have to take into account the quantities you eat, since they are high in calories. Also, foods rich in fiber such as pears, berries, vegetables, beans, and whole grains have the same effect. In addition, they make you feel full longer, as do healthy fats, which helps you consume fewer calories daily and reduce your overall body fat.

Take care of macros
The macronutrients (or macros) are carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. An adequate balance of these depends on the loss of fat, so you must take into account the amount of each one you eat. Diets high in protein are usually very effective for fat loss, primarily if you practice intense physical exercise. Therefore, you should focus on regulating hydrates and fats: depending on your body type and your metabolism, you may need to reduce one or the other.

Practice strength training
Include strength training in your exercise program, especially weight lifting, at least three times a week. If your goal is to burn fat, try to focus on full body movements, or involving a lot of muscles. According to a study published in Obesity, Weightlifting is equally or more important than cardiovascular exercise to lose weight.

Wednesday, 3 October 2018

10 Myths of the CARDIO

October 03, 2018 0
10 Myths of the CARDIO
Cardio is one of the most controversial topics in the world of fitness and at the same time one of the modalities that most practitioners have; this can be done anywhere, be it in a gym, in a park or even at home. But is it that everything that people believe and ascribe to cardiovascular exercise is true?

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Then, you can know the reality about the 10 most popular myths of cardio and what most people ask about this important stage of your training:

1. "Doing a lot of cardio is the best way to lower my fat percentage"
To lower the percentage of fat, we must spend more calories than we consume; therefore, the most important thing is to take care of the food (calories consumed vs calories burned). Muscle is an active tissue, so developing muscle mass is what really speeds up the metabolism and makes us burn more energy, even when you are at rest. The magic formula is to always carry out cardiovascular exercise and a work of force with moderate loads; In this way, our daily caloric expenditure will increase.

2. "If I am starting a training plan, I must do only cardio for a while until I get rid of the fat and then weights"
The joint work from the beginning of the program allows increasing the energy expenditure for the control of corporal weight. However, it is considered that people who have never done strength exercise start with one or two days of cardio only to not have extreme muscle pain, but the most important thing is always the development of a program that has a balance between consumption and the expense of the exercise.

3. "If I just run, will my body be transformed ?"
If running is your passion and you insist on finishing a marathon, prepare yourself specifically for this challenge, but if your goal is to lose weight, lose fat and/or achieve a defined body, you must complement it with other training methods.

4. "If I do not have an hour to do cardio, better not do it"
In fact, one hour of cardio is too much. Excellent benefits can be obtained by doing high-intensity intervals for more than 10 minutes, without counting the heating and cooling time. If you prefer to do cardio at medium intensity, the recommended time per week is 150 minutes.

5. "If I want to lose fat, I must stay only in the 'fat burning zone'"
This area is between 60 and 65% of the maximum heart rate and is so named because in this range we are burning a greater percentage of calories from fat, and it is a training that provides excellent benefits when done for periods of time long, 30 or 45 minutes; however, the high-intensity intervals, bringing the heart rate to 85 or 95%, are excellent for those who want to lose fat, because they accelerate the metabolism and help us to use more calories during the day, even when we are at rest.

6. "First I do cardio and then weights"
If we do the high-intensity cardio before the weights, we are using the glycogen (energy) of the muscles, therefore, we will arrive exhausted to the training and our performance could be affected; You must have a lot of energy and strength to make weights, because developing lean mass is what helps to have a better body composition and to accelerate the metabolism. It is okay to do 5 to 10 minutes of warm-up when the intensity is strong, but you can exceed that time if the cardio is mild and / or moderate.

7. "If I do a lot of cardio, I can eat everything I want and still lose weight"
The most important for this objective is to achieve a caloric deficit; It is very easy to overestimate the energy expenditure during physical activity and underestimate the number of calories we eat. The first thing we must do to see results is to take care of the diet, cardio can help increase daily caloric expenditure and accelerate metabolism, but diet will always be the determining factor.

8. "The more I sweat more fat I burn"
Sweating is a mechanism to regulate body temperature, but it does not necessarily indicate that we are burning more or fewer calories. Each organism is different, there are people who sweat more than others; In addition, weather conditions also influence. The best way to measure how much we are really burning is a training heart rate monitor.

9. "If I want to increase muscle mass, it is better not to do anything cardio"
Regardless of the objective, any training program should include cardiovascular conditioning; This not only serves to burn fat and lose weight, but it also keeps us healthy and helps us to perform at the moment of doing strength training.

10. "A little cardio before strength training is all the warm-up I need to do"
Raising the heart rate is important before starting strength training, but it is not the only thing we should do. Warming the joints with muscle activation exercises, mobility, and some dynamic stretching is vital for our performance during training and our long-term health.

Each organism is unique and we do not all have the same objectives; we advise you to advise well before making adjustments to your training plan. At BODYTECH you can request your free assessment appointment and our professionals will review your physical condition, know your goals and help you create a program focused on your goals.