Things That You Might Understand If You Do Intermittent Fasting.

Things That You Might Understand If You Do Intermittent Fasting.

- *Notices the time.* "Ahhh, this is my last chance to eat before I have to *starve* for the night." {*Re: Somewhat Dramatic.*} -

- Actually being able to get through the night without eating "all of the food". -

- *Stomach feels kind of hungry.* "Hmmm ... well, I can eat in [blank] hours." -

- Having to use the bathroom immediately after breaking your intermittent fast basically every day ... possibly multiple times. -

- Sleeping through a part of your IF window. -

- Kind of structured; Kind of unstructured. -

- "Am I gonna use stevia during IF?" -

- Night time calories eliminated; More calories to eat during the day. -

- The tea drinking choice during IF. -

- When your preferred personal time windows are, and how it might be different from something else, but it works for you. -

- How it's actually not as complicated when you're actually doing IF as it might seem before you actually do it. -

- From "Not sure if I'll be able to get through every night without eating during the IF window" to "Oh, that? I already do that every night". -

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So, intermittent fasting is NOT about just starving yourself. It's a temporary period of fasting, and some people already do it without even necessarily knowing it.

An eating window is the window of time where you eat, and an IF window is the window of time where you don't eat. This prevents excess intake and saves that for the actual eating window and gives your body a chance to rest from eating and digesting food.

Oh, it also helps with indigestion / heartburn (during the IF window), since you wouldn't be eating for a period of time or going to bed with a full stomach (depending on when your windows are / whether or not you go to sleep right after you eat). That doesn't necessarily mean that those things won't happen during the eating window or even right after your eat last for the day and going into the IF window. But it lowers the risk, so let's take that benefit. 👌

You don't *have to* count / restrict calories or use it for weight loss. Some people use it during lean gains. (Lean gains are gaining weight, but mostly gaining muscle instead of fat ... like targeted weight gain, just like some people do targeted weight loss / fat loss instead of muscle loss / defining targeted areas).

It's common that people that do IF do work out (maybe not literally everyone), but you can start doing IF even when you haven't been working out and add some workouts, too.

Someone on YouTube has even said that it has helped them with binging (binge-eating is when a lot of food / calories is consumed in a short period of time ... different things can be seen as a binge to some people ... 800 calories might be a binge to someone, and - to someone else - it might be eating a whole pot of something ... or even more ... sometimes, it's way more extreme).

It can help to increase your will power and your resolve. Hey, it's helping you to overcome cravings for food when it's not detrimental that your body gets more food.

Again, it's not just about starving yourself. It's about fasting, and it can be healthy and beneficial, increasing your will power and your resolve, boosting your self-control, less chances for indigestion / heartburn, giving your body a rest from digestion, saving your intake for your actual eating window, and you don't even *have to* cut out / avoid certain foods, etc.

It's different for some people. Some people might have an 8-hour eating window and then do IF for 16 hours, some people might have a 12-hour eating window and do IF for 12 hours, etc.

Some people might only drink water, or - if they're extreme - they might not even allow water (but, yeah, that is "kind of" extreme, and I don't think that I've come across that so far ... water is healthy, it hydrates, flushes out toxins, contains oxygen [the "O" part in "H2O", duh ... hehehe :)], helps to use the bathroom, helps to prevent constipation / UTIs, etc.), some people might allow tea, etc. (And - by the way - oxygen helps to burn fat.) It's good to have healthy goals with water. Drinking too little water / too much water can lead to some complications, too.

So ... IF promotes a balance between eating and not eating ... and so much more.