Intermittent Fasting is such an important part of losing weight and getting healthy. In this video you’ll get an introduction to Intermittent Fasting and learn what it is and how it can speed up your metabolism for faster weight loss.

Hey Ladies, in this video I want to talk to you about Daily Fat Burning Action #2, which is Intermittent Fasting. Now, if you’ve been a part of the 3X Weight Loss Program for a while, this wasn’t really ever a part of the Perfect Day prior, but it is included now because it is such an important part of losing weight and getting healthy. Now, the first thing when I talk about is the difference between starving and fasting because a lot of people are under the impression that intermittent fasting means that your body is going to go into starvation mode and this was one of the reasons why I was kind of against it and didn’t really want to look further into the research when I first came across it, because I associated with fasting, with starving and I know when your body gets into a starvation mode and it shuts down your metabolism and you’re actually not able to lose weight.

So I didn’t want to include it in the program in the very beginning because I just didn’t know enough about it. But after doing a lot of research in the past couple of years, it’s really become a very popular trend. It’s something that a lot of people are using as a tool to really accelerate their weight loss results. And when you do it the right way, it’s actually very beneficial and can help you a lot. So in this video, I’m just going to talk briefly about intermittent fasting and we’re gonna do some additional training inside of the facebook group. Every single month in the facebook group I cover a different topic having to do with weight loss and I dive really, really deep into that specific topic to give you all of the information that you need on that specific topic. So I’m going to cover intermittent fasting in one of those monthly… It’s called the 3X Weight Loss Secrets series. So we’re going to be talking about all the secrets around a fat loss. So that’s going to be covered in the facebook group.

But for right now in this video, I want to give you just a little tiny taste of intermittent fasting and what you should try to start doing. So most people are used to eating all day long for years and years and years. We’ve been told by the dieting industry that the way that you lose weight is to eat five to six times per day, right? They say that that’s how you keep your metabolism going. Well, that has actually led to obesity, right? So there’s, despite all of the advice out there to eat high amounts of carbs, eat low fat, to go to the gym and exercise yourself to death and to eat these small five to six meals per day.

That despite all of that advice, which is what’s been given for the past 50 years, the obesity rates continue to rise every single year with now us. You know, as a nation, we’re about 70 percent of us are either overweight or obese. So that’s a big problem. And what I have to say about that is the advice that’s been given that has been given to us mainstream, what’s being told out there is absolutely not the way to get healthy and lose weight. So what we want to do on this program is not only remove the bad fat storing foods and start eating the healthy, nourishing fat burning foods, but the timing of when you eat is really, really important. And here’s why. Most people, like I said, they’re used to eating all day long, right? Even if they’re eating small amounts of foods, it’s all day long. Every single time you eat, it triggers the hormone insulin because insulin has to be released in order to get the food that has gone into your stomach, into your digestive system.

It’s been broken down into glucose and the glucose gets into your bloodstream and insulin has to be released in order to get that glucose out of the bloodstream and into your cells so that your body can use that food as fuel. So anytime you eat, regardless of what you’re eating, you are going to stimulate insulin. And when insulin is stimulated, it not only takes that glucose or the food and turns it into fat. It stores it as fat on your body. But when insulin is present, when it’s in your system, it blocks your ability to burn fat. Your body can not burn fat in the presence of insulin. It’s a proven, proven fact. So that means that if you want to be able to lose weight and lose a lot of weight and lose it faster than most diets, that you have to not only eat the right types of food and eat the types of food that don’t stimulate a ton of glucose and a ton of insulin, but you have to reduce the amount of times that you eat.

So instead of eating all throughout the day and spiking that insulin constantly like this, which never allows your body to actually go into your fat storage and use that. Instead of doing that, we want to make sure that you’re only eating three times per day, breakfast, lunch, and dinner with no snacks. Snacking is the worst thing that you can do for your metabolism. It totally shuts down your metabolism, totally shuts down fat burning, and you’re not able to dip into that fat storage. If you think about it in between meals, you want your body to snack on your body fat, you want your body to start burning fat, you want your body to burn fat at night, but it can’t do that if you’ve been eating all the way up until the time that you go to bed. It cannot burn fat while you’re sleeping, if it’s busy digesting food.

So the best way to implement intermittent fasting into your lifestyle is to start slowly. And what that means is that we’re going to start out with just three meals per day and no snacking. Now, if you absolutely have to have one snack, I would do it in the later afternoon and I would try to phase out that snack as fast as possible. And then if you’re someone who needs sweets after dinner, that by the way is a sign of insulin resistant. When you need that sweet thing, you want to correct that. So what we want to do is make sure that if you’re having any of the, 3X approved desserts that you eat it immediately after dinner. So you have dinner and you have that snack. You don’t wait in between because while you’re eating dinner and your body’s already released insulin, you might as well eat the snack then versus waiting a couple hours and then spiking your insulin again.

So let’s aim for the first target for you to do to implement this intermittent fasting strategy is to do three meals per day with no snack. Once you get to three meals per day, your body is going to be burning fat at such a rapid pace that here’s what happens. You get less and less hungry because your body is efficiently using your body fat as fuel. So you’re going to find that after doing three meals a day with no snacking after a short period of time that you’re actually not hungry when it comes to breakfast time or maybe you’re not hungry when it’s dinner time. And when you get to that phase, that’s when you’re going to go down to two meals per day. So let’s say you wake up in the morning and you’re not hungry at all. Maybe you have some coffee or you have some tea.

And you just don’t feel hungry, you just don’t want to eat breakfast and you might already actually be at this point. Some of you start out and you’re not used to eating breakfast and that’s fine. You do not have to eat breakfast. So if you go from eating three meals a day and then you find that you’re not hungry anymore and you’re not hungry in the morning, then just push your meal out as late as you possibly can. And what ends up happening is that breakfast becomes lunch. So you have a really late breakfast and an early but a little bit of an early lunch. And then that becomes your first meal and then you have dinner and now you’re at two meals per day. You’re going to do that for the majority of the time that you’re on this program. And once you have gotten down to your body weight and if you want to take your results to the next level, if you’re trying to get shredded, if you’re maybe you even get down to the last 10 pounds and you find that you just, your, your metabolism has said no more, we’re not burning any more fat.

See, your body thinks that you’re at your ideal weight when you have around 10 pounds to lose. So if you’re watching this, if you’re like me and you’re in that 10 pound range, your body thinks that you’re already there. It does not want to get rid of any more fat because it thinks that doing that is anti survival. So when you get down to that 10 pound range, if you’re really trying to up your game and just get completely shredded and just get rid of all that fat, then you really have to go down to two meals a day and then get down to one meal per day. So this is kind of the range that I’m in right now. I’m trying to get, I’m pretty much at three meals per day with no snacking and then my next step will be to do two meals per day.

And once I’ve got that down, then I’ll move over to one meal a day probably. But that won’t be for a little bit of time. So, yeah, that’s how you implement intermittent fasting into your lifestyle. And again, I will do a more in depth training on this whole topic inside of the facebook groups that you can understand the science behind it, the research behind it, why it’s so beneficial to your health and why I’m giving your body that break from constantly eating and having to digest food is actually a very, very healthy thing to stimulate your metabolism. And here’s one more very important thing that I learned that I couldn’t believe. And so if you ever have that feeling where you feel like you’re starving, right? If actually there’s two things I want to cover here. When you’re trying to do the three meals per day, if you feel like you’re super, super hungry in between meals, then that means you need more healthy fats with each meal.

So you probably did not have enough healthy fats or protein with your first meal that to where you could last until lunchtime. So that’s the first thing I want you to adjust is if you’re having some trouble getting from each meal, you know, like going that long in between meals, then you just want to adjust the amount of fats and protein that you have with each meal. You want to make sure you’re getting enough food. The second thing to recognize is like, is that feeling really hunger or is it something else? Because here’s what you need to know. There is something called migrating motor complex and what that is is it is a digesting process that your body goes through when it’s cleaning out the esophagus and the stomach. So when you have a lot of food in your stomach and your body is done digesting it, what it’s trying to do is it needs to clean out the residue and when it’s going through that process, you’ll feel like a grumbling or an emptying of the stomach.

And I used to confuse this feeling or this sensation with hunger. So if I felt that grumbling, I’d say, oh no, I’m getting hungry. And it’s like you all of a sudden freak out. Like I’m going to starve, I need to eat now, right, that is the survival mechanism that we have built into our DNA, but what you need to realize is that you are not starving. This is just simply this migrating motor complex that is cleaning out the esophagus and the stomach and this needs to occur. If you constantly are eating and stuffing your face with food, your body never has a chance to clean out these organs and so it really needs to go through that process. So the next time you feel that rumbling and grumbling in your stomach, it’s actually not a bad thing. It’s not that you’re starving, it’s just your body is cleaning out and it’s doing what it needs to do.

So that’s the first thing. Now I want to talk about the difference between starving and fasting. Now starvation would be after your body has used up all of the fats that is on your body and it starts eating its own muscle and eating its own organs, right? That starvation that’s like this, the, the state of somebody who is literally starving, has not had food in a very long time, is very malnourished. Somebody who is anorexic, who just purposely starves themselves and refuses to eat. That’s starving.

Fasting is simply the process of getting your body into fat burning mode where it’s using up fat as energy, but you’re also still providing your body with very important nutrients during that fasting period. Okay? So there’s definitely a difference and we want to make sure that you’re doing this process right. But as long as you’re following the 3X Weight Loss Plan and you’re following the recommendations that I give you on intermittent fasting, you’re never, ever, ever going to come close to that starvation mode. So do not worry about that. Okay, great. So I just wanted to give you those last couple of tips so that you feel confident in your ability to be able to do this. And I’ll see you in the next video for Daily Fat Burning Action #3.