3 things to help you start fasting today

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Here are three things that will help you start fasting today. These things will help it make easy for you enjoyable, and you can feel healthy and lose weight by intermittent fasting.

I learned these three things from Jackie and Jen Stevens and I wanted to share them with you. These are proving things that will make your fasting. Super Duper easy. 

Jackie from Intermittent Fasting Foodie has inspired me to try OMAD or eating one meal a day and i am loving it so far!

Gin Stephens is the other awesome lady who inspired both of us, check out her book Delay, Don't Deny and her other book Jackie from Intermittent Fasting Foodie inspired me to try OMAD (one meal a day), and I’m loving it!

Gin Stephens also inspired us, check out her book Delay, Don't Deny and Fast Feast Repeat

Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Hey guys, how's it going?
Are you thinking of tryingfasting?
Well, I have three things thatwill make it easier for you to
start fasting and stay fasting.
And I've learned them from myown experience and I've heard
thousands of people share theirown things.
So this is a compilation ofthree of them, three top things.
Of course, there's more.
And I hope that you will findthem useful.

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So thing number one that made abig difference for me to start
fasting and keep fasting wasfinding a community that I can
be part of, fasting community,and I can talk and listen to
other people go through theirfasting journey.
And that made me not feel likeI'm an outcast from everyone

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around me in my real lifebecause I find in...
My real life, not many peopleare fasting.
My parents are actually fasting.
They skip breakfast every dayand they do that to manage my
dad's diabetes.
And my mom's just read all thebooks and started doing that
years ago for my dad to managehis diabetes.

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And all the books are theobesity code by Jason Fung,
which is super useful.
And he is the pioneer in kind ofexplaining to everybody how the
insulin works.
And the communities that I foundhelpful was Jackie's community,

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which I mentioned in my otherepisodes, was Jackie's
intermittent fasting page onFacebook.
She also has a podcast and shedoes lives on Facebook, which
all the people come to and totalk about their experience.
The podcast where she interviewsall the different people of

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everyday life like you and I,how they came to fasting, what
kind of fasting they do, howthey fast.
And all the stories aredifferent and they're all the
same in a way that everyone'sfasting, but they're all
different because everyonepersonalized their fasting to
their life.
So I love listening to them.
It keeps me going, keeps mefeeling like I belong to this

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group because I think you needthat when you're starting it
out.
And if you're going to feel likean outcast in your everyday
life, you're probably going tostop or not continue as long.
So join a community.
That's number one.
Number two, flexibility.
That made a huge difference forme.
And I know for a lot of people,flexibility is something that.

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isn't obvious right away whenyou hear about intermittent
fasting because of all thenumbers that they introduce you
with.
They say, oh, you can fast for20 hours, eat for four.
And I've already talked about itbefore in other videos.
Or they say 18-6 or 16-8 or24-hour fast or 36.

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And it was too rigid for me.
I had to...
Find flexibility in it so that Ican adjust to my life.
I did not want it to be sorigid.
It did not work for me.
I couldn't actually fast.
I couldn't stick to it longenough.
I constantly had chatter in myhead.
So should I eat now?
Should I eat later?

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But I said I will do this fast,but I'm hungry now.
What should I do?
Now I would say it's moreintuitive fasting for me, how I
feel best.
I want to fast fast.
by how I feel, how my bodyfeels.
Some days I want to eat more andI honor that, and other days I
want to honor the longer fast.

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So being flexible in the eatingwindows that you're doing and
the fasting numbers, I thinkthat makes a huge difference
because then it becomes alifestyle that you can actually
keep doing.
It's not a diet, it's not aSomething temporary.
It's something that you canactually incorporate in your

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everyday life.
So that's number two,flexibility.
And the last one that made ahuge difference for me was clean
fasting.
I have not heard about cleanfasting until Jackie's channel.
And she learned it from JenStevens, who first introduced it
to everyone.
And clean fasting isbasically...

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only drinking drinks that don'tspike your insulin.
So black coffee, no cream, nosweetener, no flavors, black
tea, you can have cold tea, hottea, you can have cold coffee,
you can have sparkling water,you can have flat water, you can
have electrolytes as long asthey're not flavored.

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But anything else, triggers yourbody to think that there's food
coming if there's any flavorright if electrolytes have
flavor your body thinks oh greatthere's what are we tasting now
watermelon okay so it's kind ofgets your body going it's get
sends a message to the insulinto be released and before I

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heard of clean fasting I wasdoing what they call dirty
fasting which was I was havingcoffee with my coffee with cream
in the morning.
And then when I decided toreally start fasting, I decided,
okay, I'm not going to do cream,but I've heard about this
bulletproof coffee.
And I'm going to do that.
So and I, my intention was, I'mgoing to do that.

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So it helps me get over to mylunch, helps me skip breakfast.
But what I actually foundhappening is that made me
hungry.
made me hungrier and made itharder for me to get to lunch.
And the only way I found outthat was happening is actually
when I stopped havingbulletproof coffee and I

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actually did a clean fastbecause the first day I did
that, it was extremely easy toget to lunch.
I was not hungry at all.
My blood sugar was so stable.
Sorry.
And I was so happy to havediscovered it because before
that it was kind of hard.
I would have the bulletproofcoffee and then I would be

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looking at the clock thinking,when can I eat?
It was harder to make it tolunch.
Now with clean fasting, I canmake it anywhere between 20 and
22 hours, 23, easy, no problem.
I have no hunger.
I'm thirsty.
I'm not hungry.
The only times that I feel thedifference is when I have...

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Like this morning, I decided totry chai tea, which is flavored
with cinnamon and nutmeg, or I'mnot sure what else is in there.
It's delicious.
So I thought, okay, let's tryit.
And it made me more hungry.
So switching to straight blacktea and black coffee made a huge
difference for me.
So This makes a differencebetween white knuckling it

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through the fast and having itbe so easy.
So that's the other thing Iwanted to tell you.
It's super easy.
Once you get over thetransition, once you adjust
mentally, it might be a hardadjustment for you.
It is for everyone, one of us,that we have to adjust to what
do we do in the times that weused to eat?

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What do we do with the boredom?
What do we do with the...
With our time, we need toadjust.
So once you adjust, and it is aprocess, but physically it is
super easy, right?
So as a reminder, of course, Ihave no medical background.
I'm not in any way suggestingthat you try this for yourself.

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In a medical advice, I am onlyhere to encourage you to try to
figure out what's best for you.
And this could be one of thethings that works.
You need to try to find out forsome people, one meal a day
works really well for a lot ofpeople.
They find that they can't getenough food in one time a day

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that they need to have twosmaller meals, but you have to
try.
This is what I'm here for is toencourage you to try what works
for you.
And if you're going to tryintermittent fasting, then I
would suggest those threethings, the community, find
yourself in a community.
And I'm hoping to, to kind of bethat community for you until you

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find one, or we can be heretogether and fast together.
Flexibility, don't forget to beflexible.
Don't get all so hung up onnumbers, how many hours of
fasting, even a 12 hour fast isa fast, right?
While you're sleeping, that'sstill good.
And clean fasting, make iteasier for yourself by delaying

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the coffee with cream, to laterand that will make it easy.
So don't deny yourself, butdelay.
Okay.
All right, guys.
Happy fasting.
I love you.
Bye.