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High-Intensity Interval Training and Intermittent Fasting - A Winning Combo for Fat Reduction and Optimal Fitness-  November 02, 2012 Mercola

• When combined, high intensity exercise and intermittent fasting can be a winning strategy to bring your fitness to the next level                        
• Recent research demonstrates that restricting carbohydrates can help burn calories more efficiently and increase muscle oxidative potential even in highly trained athletes
• High intensity interval training has also been shown to burn more calories in less time
•  When you exercise while fasting, it essentially forces your body to shed fat
•    If the thought of fasting for 12-18 hours is too much, you can get many of the same benefits of fasting and exercise by simply skipping breakfast and exercising first thing in the morning when your stomach is empty 

http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2012/11/02/interval-training-and-intermittent-fasting.aspx

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Intermittent Fasting- The approach that works for me

What works for me is to limit my food intake to a certain time of day rather than 5 days on and 2 days off.  I believe the body needs time to clean up everyday!

As long as you are eating all day long your body will burn the most readily available energy....food you JUST ate.

Since I am a coffee drinker it is relatively easy for me to "skip" breakfast. This has taken training, and time to slowly get to the point where my body knows that it is not in fact "Starving".  

I have heard so many times not to eat after 6pm-well this just does not work for my family, often times we are not even home from work until after 7pm. 

I like to start my mornings with fluids only! Water with lemon and cayenne , Coffee, Superfoods, and  fresh squeezed juice--only if I am very hungry.

Once I get to the point I know I need to eat which is usually around 12:30-1:00pm, I like to have fruit, something that is very easy to digest (I recommend only eating fruit by itself, at least 30 minutes before a meal-maybe another idea for a blog post?)

I eat a late lunch and a late dinner but the time frame is usually 8 or less hours of the day that I am eating.

This has worked for me for several years, not including when I was pregnant-becuase I was always starving!

Maintaining my body weight has been no effort for me and I think that only eating during a limited window of time helps me make better decisions on what I do eat!  I am becoming quite the food snob, and I mean that in a very healthy way!

It is a process just like everything in life.......but in my opinion you should sweep the three meal mindset under the rug and give it a try.  I promise you wont starve yourself!

sometimes I need a little help from my friend, ACE-It is a natural source of energy, that gives me alot of focus and helps control the appetite.

What is Intermittent Fasting?

Look Beyond Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

So far, the research overwhelmingly supports this notion that ditching the “three square meals a day” approach in favor of intermittent fasting may do wonders for your health.

Intermittent Fasting: 

Option 1 More popularly known as the 5:2 diet, The main goal of the process is to eat sensibly for 5 days of the week and follow it by two days of only 500 calories.

“Intermittent fasting can be undertaken in several ways but the basic format alternates days of ‘normal’ calorie consumption with days when calorie consumption is severely restricted. This can either be done on an alternating day basis, or more recently a 5:2 strategy has been developed [see figure below], where 2 days each week are classed as ‘fasting days’ (with <600 calories consumed for men, <500 for women).

Importantly, this type of intermittent fasting has been shown to be similarly effective or more effective than continuous modest calorie restriction with regard to weight loss, improved insulin sensitivity and other health biomarkers... Despite the seemingly strict nature of the fasting days intermittent fasting has a generally good adherence record.”

                                                               British Journal of Diabetes & Vascular Disease:

Option 2 of Intermittent Fasting is to restrict your daily eating to a specific window of time.

Another version of intermittent fasting, and the one I actually prefer and use, is when you simply restrict your daily eating to a specific window of time, such as an eight hour window. This is feasible and convenient for most people, but you can restrict it even further — down to six, four or even two hours, if you want, but you can still reap many of the rewards by limiting your eating to a window of about 8 hours.

The rationale behind this approach is that it takes about six to eight hours for your body to burn the carbohydrates stored in your body as glycogen. After that your body is stimulated to burn fat as its primary fuel

                                                                                                          Dr. Mercola

Some Possible benefits of Intermittent Fasting Included

• lower blood pressure
• lower blood lipids
• sustain weight loss
• increase of lifespan in laboratory animals
• protect brain from Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other Age related disorders.  (study from National Institute on Ageing)
• Limit imflamation
• Reduce LDL and total cholesterol levels
• Reverse type 2 diabetes

Sources

BBS Documentary on Intermittent Fasting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19112549

Fasting Kills Cancer & Boost Immunity in 7 days.

http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=CD8FB497938AB40E81E0A9B74F79F079

Intermittent Fasting Shown to Improve Diabetes and Reduce Cardiovascualar Risk

http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2013/05/17/intermittent-fasting-diet.aspx

Fasting...Friend or Foe?

It's long been known that restricting calories in certain animals can increase their lifespan by as much as 50 percent, but more recent research suggests that sudden and intermittent calorie restriction appears to provide the same health benefits as constant calorie restriction, which may be helpful for those who cannot successfully reduce their everyday calorie intake