The natural strategy to maintain health and fitness.

Maintaining health and fitness is becoming a challenge for people. Due to marketing strategy, unhealthy food is getting more and more attention than natural food. The advertising campaigns, the actors misguiding the people about what to eat is a major dilemma. The average age people are living is 65 max. In the 40s people tend to get so many diseases due to lack of nutrition in their diet.

“Clean body creates clean stuff and toxic body creates toxic stuff.”

One of the main aspects of health is the sleep which you are getting. The people don’t sleep for 7to 8 hours. People eat sleeping pills for good sleep. Insomnia, depression, anxiety is the outcomes of lack of sleep. Social media, screen time, bad nutrition is also a major cause of this situation. By one natural way, you can cure all these problems. And the antidote for these is Intermittent Fasting.

Intermittent Fasting (IF)

Intermittent fasting is the cheapest way for not just weight loss but to boost your immunity, for skin, for hair. It improves sleep as well. Those who fast they don’t need sleep pills anymore. Intermittent fasting, also known as intermittent energy restriction, is an umbrella term for various meal timing schedules that cycle between voluntary fasting and non-fasting over a given period. Three methods of intermittent fasting are alternate-day fasting, periodic fasting, and daily time-restricted feeding. We have two mechanisms in our body one is fasting and other is feasting mechanism.

Intermittent fasting is the best way of maintaining good habits as well as good health. In every religion, people fast, whether it’s Hindu, Muslim, Christian for the worship of God.

How intermittent fasting functions

Breakfast was designed by breakfast cereal companies. By using social media, advertising strategy, making celebrities brand ambassador and manipulating the mind of people to buy the product. Most people don’t feel hungry in the morning. People buy packed food, processed food for breakfast. And the trend is growing all over the world example breakfast food, and all. It’s not that don’t eat breakfast, breakfast gives and maintains energy during the day, but intermittent fasting is a great term for the long term good health.

• Usually, the intermittent fasting myth is the ratio for intermittent fasting is 16:8. That means 16 hours of fasting and 8 hours of eating. But it’s not necessary to be these figures you can do 10 hours of fast, 12 hours of fast, even 17hours of fast it’s upon you what suits to your body. Please listen to your body when your intermittent fasting.
• Whenever you felt hungry just eat it. Don’t compare yourself intermittent fasting to others, everybody has a different duration of fasts. Some people can do 10 hours, some can do 12 hours, or some can do 18 hours of fast. Just listen to your body. When you feel hungry just break the fast by eating fruits or light food.
• During fasting, you can just drink water. Please understand it that fast means energy restrictions to your body, please don’t eat during fast, please don’t drink coffee or tea. Just drink water. This is because when you eat your digestive system starts to work and when you eat every 1hour or 2 hours like snacks and all you put your digestive system on load. Because the previous food which you had to consume is not digested fully. Normally a meal takes 3 to 4 hours to digest completely and when you eat food when the digestive system is working. And it cannot digest the food properly and thus the food you eat converts into fats and chances are weight gain, gut problems, gastrointestinal diseases. So when you are hungry then eat, don’t eat unnecessarily.
• People eat snacks, processed food during a binge-watch. You have to understand that during night body is in detoxification mode that is elimination mode and just we put something food in our body we stop that process. Let your body perform fully detoxification process. Listen to your body. Don’t eat at midnight after dinner.
• A simple way to follow and adapt the intermittent fasting is that eat your dinner before sunset and break that fast after sunrise. For example: eat your dinner till 7:00 pm or 8:00 pm max and you can break your fast in the morning at 8:00 am. So it would be 12 hours of fasting which is a great way to adapt it.
• Everybody is different, it’s not necessary to fast every day. Depending upon what type of work you have to do each day. Some people need more energy during the day because they would perform more physical work. The energy they need is much more amount and they need to eat food. Remember that fasting means energy restriction.
• If it doesn’t suit you don’t fast because some people have low sugar levels, high metabolism rate, deficiencies.
• If you feel hungry during your fast, just drink water if you want to push your fast longer. But keep in mind don’t starve yourself.
• See hunger are of two types of physical hunger and mental hunger. So mostly if you feel mentally hungry just drink water.
• Minimum hours of fast can be anything but try to fast at least 12 hours.
• If you started intermittent fasting today, from today to 1-2 days you will feel weak, but on 3rd day you will feel great and you would never break your fast. Try it for 2 days if you’re body is not adapting then don’t do it.
• Break your fast with fruits, dates, raw vegetables and meal. Hydrate yourself. Don’t put acidic into the empty stomach like coffee, tea. They are stimulants to our stomach.
• For kidney patients, diabetic patients and others, please consult your doctor before starting intermittent fasting.

Things to be remembered during fasting

1. Align sleep time and eat time. Have a proper meal, avoid carbs at night. Sleep as early as possible, Fat burn happens when you have good sleep.
2. Drink room temperature water if you can because of good digestion and metabolism.
3. Don’t make it a fad diet, sacrifice your sugary foods, oily foods and processed food.
4. Fasting is not starvation, don’t starve yourself.
5. Don’t snack yourself even if the meal is not digested.
6. Don’t believe in numbers. You are using energy every day different. So you determine what is good better hours of fasting for you. Start with 12 hours of fasting.
7. Eat your meals don’t diet when fasting.
8. Don’t overdo and don’t break your fast with chips and processed food.

Benefits of Intermittent Fasting

1. If you are intermittent fasting you no longer need diet plans. You no longer need expensive diet products.
2. It boosts your immune system and reduces inflammation.
3. For teenagers and youths by doing intermittent fasting they can see a rise in energy levels and an increase in productivity. Also, feel confident.
4. Junk food is an addiction and the cravings for that would be decreased. You don’t have to use will power for that.
5. Intermittent fasting also increases your energy levels and sleep too.
6. Fasting also provides liberty, sometimes eating cookies, cake in a week is good too because your body will break that down.