TIPS & TRICKS

FASTING & INTERMITTENT FASTING can be very beneficial to our health and it doesn’t cost a thing!

Intermittent fasting is eating during part of the day and then not eating for the rest of the day.

For example, there’s a 16/8 fast where you eat only during an eight hour period and then stop for 16 hours.

An easy way to include this type of fasting is to remember the last time you ate, like at 7pm. And then the next time you get hungry, you check the time to see how long it’s been since the last time you ate. Like 7pm to 7am is an automatic 12 hours which is pretty good, but at that point you can decide if you’re going to push it further to 14, 16 or beyond.

And during these times, you can drink coffee, tea, water and other things, but you have to be careful when adding items with calories like creamers, sugar, and mct oil, as this can ‘kick’ you out of a fast.

SNACKING in between meals is better to AVOID throughout the day. Sip on something instead to get you to the next meal. When you snack, your blood sugar level goes up, so it’s much healthier to have less blood sugar spikes throughout the day.

STOP EATING when you are comfortable. Push the plate away, give your food away, save it for later, feed the dog with it or use your trash-can as a basketball hoop and the food as the ball. If you’re eating something low carb and healthy, you could eat until you are “comfortably stuffed,” but that’s it.

If we pay attention, it’s fairly easy to see when we’ve had enough too eat.