Most fitness fanatics are going for lean, slim bodies. It’s trending now and the most popular meal plan today is “fasting”. So what does that mean?
Fasting is really about the sporadic eating of healthy foods. In other words, most of us have the same meal plan we grew up with and our parents have the same plan they grew up with. Doesn’t sound like that’s a bad thing, but humans today are not the same type of people are parents or grandparents were. Our ancestors basically ate on the run. They ate when they had food and when they had time. We eat on a schedule that was handed down through the last several generations. You eat when you get up, and again at mid-day, and again in the evening. Why is that so important? Well, today we realize it’s not important.
When a child is born, they eat several times a day because they are not attached to their mother anymore and they are used to that continuous feeding. But as they get older you notice that their appetite changes. They want to skip meals, they’re not hungry as much. Yes, there still growing but they have the instinct of knowing when the need food and when they don’t. But we try to break them of that inbred instinct and put them on a regimented meal plan whether they want it or not. So, is that the right thing to do or are we changing them for our convenience.
Because humans don’t all require the same number of calories to maintain body functions, we don’t all need to eat meals frequently. That’s were “fasting” comes in. Fasting is the time that you go without consuming calories. Fasting to lose weight can be done is several ways.
A popular method is the 16/8 plan. You consume all your calories for the day in 8 hours and the other 16 hours you consume zero calories. You can drink water, black coffee, black tea or any zero-calorie drink but you can’t eat solid food. The theory behind this is that it takes about 12 hours for your body to process the food in your digestive system and after that it most burn body fat to keep the body working. So, for 4 hours a day the body is burning your body fat stored in your fat cells.
There’s another method of fasting that might work better for you, it’s the 2/5 method. This method is harder for the beginner. Two days a week, non-consecutive you fast for 24 hours. The other 5 days you eat normally, but healthy. Stagger your two days of fasting so there not close together. The more popular way is to eat around 5 or 6 pm. And then fast until 5 or 6 pm the next day.
Another way to fast is more impulsive. Your simply skip meals when you're not hungry. Some days you might eat 3 meals, some days 2 meals and some days 1 meal.
All 3 methods will reduce calories and you will lose weight over time if you eat healthy foods when you do eat.
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