Intermittent fasting has officially gone to the mainstream. So many people are talking about it on a nearly daily basis now and so many people have also decided to give it a shot and see if it improves their health.
Whether you're looking to gain muscle mass, lose body fat or actually add years to your life by improving your body's efficiency, intermittent fasting is a relatively easy solution to these problems (especially compared to other methods).
Something that the mainstream seems to leave out of it's IF (intermittent fasting) recommendations is that you should not be consuming anything other than water while fasted.
If you drink a cup of coffee in the morning, then your fast breaks the second you start drinking the coffee. Same goes for tea. Anything other than water breaks your fast.
Many people don't know this or understand it. I actually didn't come to know it until about a year ago (after I had been doing IF - or what I thought was IF for over 2 years).
Intermittent fasting is such a fantastic way to manage certain issues like inflamation, weight loss, muscle gain, etc. but if you're not doing it properly then you may be missing out on it's fantastic benefits.
I also wanted to add this other personal note. When I started doing IF properly and restricted my coffee as well, I found that I almost went through something of a withdrawl from caffeine.
It's crazy how addicted our bodies can become to such a simple thing that everyone uses. Coffee is more addicting then you think.
When I was first waking up in the morning, I had headaches, fatigue, etc. because I didn't have my coffee. But like everything, those feelings subside overtime.
Now I wake up feeling alert and ready to go. I'm focused on the work that laysi n front of me and I'm ready to conquer the day with IF helping me lose weight!
great your post keep it up
Thank you! I'm glad you thought it was great!!
I tried it once and the results were so fantastic, i dont mind doing it again. I especially loved the mental alertness the fasting gave me.
Keep steeming,
@soorefunmi
that's great!!! I recommend it to all my friends for weight loss and mental alertness as well!! Steem on!
@gallerani I must say this is the first time i'm hearing of IF. I guess I have to put it into practice and see if it will work for me aswell. thanks for the write up
I'm glad to be able to introduce it to you!! Let me know how it goes for you, thanks for checking it out!
yeah cosmiccrimes!! The body aches, the tired eyelids... they're the worst!
I see I have made mistakes fasting, I drank way too much coffee on those days because I was tired from the fast.
Yeah I used to drink coffee and consider myself to be fasted as well... It can be truly tough to get over that coffee addiction... I felt super tired in the mornings for the first week!
Mmmhmmm and those body aches that come with it as well.
Eh, this is one of those purist diatribes.
Straight coffee or tea has no calories and not much of an insulin response. So if you are doing intermittent fasting for weight lost (most people) then it's fine. See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5583402/ for a meta analysis of 7 studies done on green tea.
If you are trying to go for apoptosis and other kinds of metabolic effects, intermittent fasting likely isn't enough to get you there to a significant degree anyways. You need to be doing 2-3 days fasts which falls under the "extended fasting" category.