Intermittent Fasting - a Naturopathic Guide

Ok, First of all I am SO excited to announce that my guide to Intermittent Fasting is FINALLY ready to reveal! It has been months in the making (and over a year of testing). I wanted to make sure I had it just right, but most of all I wanted to be sure it FELT right in my own body. I use myself as a guinea pig for most of the things I recommend to patients, but this became more than a 'test' for me - it actually turned into a way of life, which made it even more important for me to share it in a way that made sense to you all. I don't talk too much about it with people, because the term Intermittent Fasting just sounds so cliche, or intimidating, or just like a fad 'diet' term or something. But it's more. SO much more. It has brought ease to my life, but has also transformed my body (my energy, my performance and my composition). I honestly feel it's slowed the aging process. It's improved my skin. It's improved my immune system. Ok so how did this all come to be? Here is how it happened.

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About a year ago while putting together a nutrition presentation I came across research and MANY articles about the benefits of Intermittent Fasting (IF). I had heard the term years prior but was never really interested in anything that had to do with ‘fasting’ (for myself OR my patients) and had never given it much thought. Over the years as my knowledge and passion for all things nutrition grew, I was ready to learn more about how fasting could be incorporated into my own life and to see if it would make any difference to my own routine and lifestyle. I read as much as I could find on the topic, and figured I was ready to try it on myself.

To make a long story short, my experience with intermittent fasting was life changing in its simplicity. It was liberating on many levels. I found myself with more time in the mornings, my emotional attachment to food changed as my cravings for REAL food increased, and my desire for junk lessened (oh don't get me wrong, there is still pizza and ice cream in my life, but I look forward to jumping back into my lifestyle the following day). 

My fear of hunger diminished (I used to think I was going into starvation mode, and that somehow my body was shutting down). My appreciation for the digestive and healing process in the body increased as my recovery time improved after pushing my limits physically (I trained for my first triathlon this past year, and engaged in long workouts I never thought possible). My workouts yielded greater results as my body became more efficient. My energy improved, and my blood sugar levels stabilized. One of my biggest concerns was ‘would I lose precious muscle mass’? The answer is ‘no’. I was able to keep my muscle mass AND burn extra fat while following an IF lifestyle. And the improved mental clarity and focus was an added bonus!

My particular interest in Intermittent Fasting was using a method called the 16:8 method, which I’ll explain in this manual. As a Naturopathic Doctor, it makes the most sense to me in terms of how the average person can include IF into their lifestyle AND it is probably the easiest to do for most people. I also looked at how we’ve evolved as humans, and now have food available to us 24 hrs. a day if we want it, whereas our Paleolithic counterparts had to hunt and gather, and spent MANY hours each day fasting. 

Although there are several IF articles available online, I found that very few explained the intricacies of IF and specifically how IF is different for WOMEN and men AND how IF should be done differently for specific health conditions. The majority of the articles on IF are written by individuals in the Paleo community as a basic guide or ‘how to’ on IF, but there was a lot of missing information as far as I was concerned.  I hope to touch on these issues in this manual, and I hope to set you up for success and NOT frustration with this added guidance and trouble shooting. If this sounds like something you'd like to know more about, my guide can be purchased as an e-book and emailed to you in a PDF format. I hope that it gets you trying IF - perhaps it's something that you too will enjoy!

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