The Full Information to Fasting: Heal Your Physique By Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Prolonged Fasting

9 reviews for The Full Information to Fasting: Heal Your Physique By Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Prolonged Fasting

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   sbmike – November 29, 2024

   Like A Magic Button for Weight Loss. Read the Book… It Will Change Your Life!
   Wow, I found the magic button for weight loss. After having limited success with the whole field of dieting options I stumbled across a talk on youtube by Dr Jason Fung talking about fasting. After the video I searched and ended up buying the audio book and the hard copy. The concept initially terrified me for some reason and when talking to friends who fasted I just shook my head and though there is no way I could do that. One of the fasting approaches recommended however seemed pretty easy. Have dinner and fast for 24 hours, having dinner the next day. I have done that accidentally at times! Well after a 6 days of doing this, I lost 10 lbs (40 to go) and realized that what I thought was breakfast or lunchtime hunger was just my body reminding me of a long held habit of eating I have had. It is incredible that over such a short fast you can turn off insulin based fat storage, and start burning fat. A side benefit is that increased metal clarity occurs fairly quickly and offers additional incentive to fast. Also my moderately elevate blood pressure is getting back to normal. Leads me to think that we have a obesity problem in the country because people eat 3 meals a day and insulin based fat storage never turns off. This is another area where the industrial food business exploits us in their marketing and so called guidelines. I am now convinced there is absolutely no need for 3 meals a day.Now the book recommends starting out the 24 hr fasting for a couple of days per week. I have decided to do it 5 or 6 times per week. I am pretty confident I can now get to any weight I want. I think the book is important in that it helps you break long held thoughts and misconceptions about eating and going without food. It also discusses other lengths of fasts that can range from 36 hour to weeks. It is so flexible you can do it anytime. And if I am fasting one day, and my friends invite me over for breakfast, or lunch no problem I will forget about fasting that day or have breakfast, but forget about lunch. In my opinion most people who have access to food have never experienced hunger, just mealtime urges. These urges are easy to identify and ignore after a few days (at least for me).I listened to the audio book first and then used the book for reinforcement for changing my thinking. There is quite a bit of repetition but this was necessary for me to truly break long held conventional thinking.Basically you are eating less food when only eating once per day. By having a long break between meals you body has time to get into fat burning mode. So while it seems like a magic button, it is not magic at all. You just have to forget about everything you have ever been taught or thought you knew about eating. This book is a great tool to change habits and conventional thinking.I will try to come back after I reach my goal weight and give an update. But I have no doubt that this is the solution that will allow me to control my weight to whatever level I choose. Read the book. It will change your life!

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   C. A. Williamson – November 29, 2024

   2 Thumbs Up!!
   Great book! Best book available on fasting and what really works. The stories of people doing fasting are very good to hear because it gives a person a sense of how fasting works in the real world. A person needs to experiment to see what works for them, and what they are comfortable doing. There are different approaches a person can do that focus on the key goal of lowering insulin level to achieve better health. It truly works. The details are outstanding. I am a nerd so I enjoyed reading about exactly what is happening. The book was very professional.I enjoy Dr. Jason Fung’s approach on keep it simple and effective. What is the root cause of the problem? Fix the root cause, problem goes away. Simple and effective gets a person to the finish line. Jimmy Moore’s life experience is inspiring. I heard them on Dave Asprey’s Bulletproof Radio podcast. I have struggled with the same issues of gaining weight. I didn’t know why, and how to get it all off. Calories in, calories out never worked for me. I was hungry all the time and I was eating food every couple hours or so. WTF! I like eating, but 6 times a day is crazy and costs money. I was eating low fat. Fat makes a person fat, no? I also exercised a lot, but the weight didn’t come off. Why? I need to run more miles, no? But, thanks to the information these 2 have provided, I now know exactly why and have changed my diet so that I do a feast, and fasting diet. I am lean again like I was when I was young, and I feel great. All I did was Keto, IF, and fasting. I lost 90 pounds of body fat. I started at over 50% body fat. The keto diet got me halfway. IF and fasting got the last pounds of body fat off. Today, I am on day 7 of a fast to get the last few stubborn pounds off. It is odd that if I eat food on a fast it makes me hungry and makes the fasting worse. I am at 10-12% body fat. My BP dropped from 140/90 to 115/70. Wow!! I had problems with IBS. This is much improved. Inflammation is gone. I have to watch what foods I eat. Bottom line, it didn’t cost much money, and I did it sitting on the sofa watching TV. Sincerely, Thanks!!!!!

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   MommaLayne – November 29, 2024

   Unlocking the Power of Fasting
   In The Complete Guide to Fasting, Dr. Jason Fung and Jimmy Moore provide an invaluable resource for anyone looking to explore the benefits of intermittent fasting. Whether you’re a beginner or looking to refine your fasting approach, this comprehensive manual equips you with the knowledge and strategies needed to create an effective fasting protocol tailored to your goals.This guide covers a wealth of information, including how intermittent fasting enhances weight loss, improves insulin responses, and can even help alleviate symptoms of depression and anxiety. It features a practical 7-Day Kick-Start Fasting Plan, alongside 20 healing recipes designed to support your fasting experience. Readers will discover the various types of fasting protocols—such as 16:8 and alternate day fasting—and learn how to seamlessly integrate these methods with dietary preferences, including keto and low-carb approaches.Fung and Moore emphasize the importance of understanding what to expect when diving into fasting, offering strategies to manage hunger and cultivate the right mindset for success. With clear explanations of what fluids are permissible during a fast and guidance to avoid potential pitfalls, The Complete Guide to Fasting makes the journey towards improved health and wellness accessible and achievable. This empowering book dispels misconceptions about dieting and starvation, making intermittent fasting an easier path to lasting results and well-being.

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   GeeGee – November 29, 2024

   More people need to fast
   This is a great book for beginners

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   Flavio Corral – November 29, 2024

   This book is a high-quality, soft-cover, glossy-paper book with supreme clear-letters and detailed photographs and drawings.The content seems quite good, though I haven’t started to fully read it, yet.

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   DI108 – November 29, 2024

   Fasting can help even if you are not desperately ill. It gives energy and resets the system. Dr. Fung explains things really well and he has years of data to back up what he teaches. He has a few other very helpful books as well. He is not one of those guys that push things onto you.

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   Kjv – November 29, 2024

   Explains very clearly about health, food and body. Makes sense. Easy to follow.I like that you can take it as far as you like. My husband is more extreme he will and can fast longer. I not, I just want to improve my health, lower my sugar intake and give my body recovery time from sugar I do eat on a daily basis.You’ll find something that fits you in here.

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   MARY – November 29, 2024

   As someone with Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) I wish I had access to information like this years ago. I always knew carbs affected my body more than the average person but now I understand the real problem is insulin resistance. I have tried the whole exercise more, eat less plan, for decades and it just doesn’t work. Eating less makes me feel lousy, but strangely, when I fast for longer periods of time between meals, I feel good – really good. I have done low carb diets in the past with great results as far as weight loss, but I always fell back into heavy carb eating once again. I couldn’t sustain the diet, which pushed me back up to a high weight once again and put me at high risk for diabetes. (Women with PCOS are already at high risk for developing Type 2 diabetes) If you want to be able to keep eating junk food and processed food, don’t try fasting – you will feel awful going from high carbs to no carbs, and if you binge on chocolate you will get a killer headache when you fast. If you are willing to eat healthier foods as you begin intermittent fasting, you will find the whole process much easier to do. I have been more than 60 pounds overweight for thirty years, I have always been a binge eater and chocoholic, but the core of my eating has always been very healthy with lots of vegetables. I find that when I eat only healthy foods, and fast between meals, I feel much more satisfied and far less hungry – which makes this plan easier and easier to do as you stick with it. Out of everything I have tried over the years to lose weight I find intermittent fasting the most sustainable to do and the easiest to work into my life. The best part is that I am losing weight and I feel great. Everything about this plan provides positive reinforcement to keep you going – you see the numbers on the scale going down, you feel more clear headed, you feel more satisfied with less food, high carb foods aren’t so appealing anymore and joint pain disappears. You can even enjoy special occasions without having to stand back while everyone else enjoys the food – intermittent fasting helps you get back on track again quickly and easily without derailing you completely.Buy this book if you want to try intermittent fasting and buy The Obesity Code if you want to learn in much greater detail the science of weight gain and weight loss and why fasting helps. If you can only buy one of Dr. Fung’s books, I recommend this one. It will change your life!

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   elena – November 29, 2024

   Davvero completo ed estremamente interessante, concetti spiegati con chiarezza anche per chi non è madrelingua inglese. Da leggere dopo il precedente “il codice del dimagrimento” che approfondisce altrettanto bene i vari meccanismi che portano a sviluppare varie patologie e a come curarle.