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Whether you’re new to intermittent fasting or you want to fine-tune your fasting plan, this is the intermittent fasting manual to help you build the right fasting program for the best results. Whether your goal is to lose weight, improve your body’s insulin response, sharpen your mental faculties, turn down depression or anxiety, or slow the aging process, The Complete Guide to Fasting is the best companion for your journey.
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Here you’ll find everything you need to get you through your first fast, including a 7-Day Kick-Start Fasting Plan and 20 healing recipes. Get the guidance you need to make intermittent fasting work for you!Â
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You will learn:
• How intermittent fasting works, and how you can successfully combine it with diets and eating preferences such as keto, low carb and low sugar
• How intermittent fasting amplifies weight loss and improves many other health conditions, such as pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, hypertension and heart health
• Which fluids are allowed and can even aid fasting, and which will break your fast
• What should you expect when you start fasting, and how to avoid potential negative effects
• How to manage hunger and create the right mindset
• What are the different fasting types and protocols, including 16:8, 20:4, alternate day fasting, and other extended fast
Forget about starving yourself or diets with complicated rules—intermittent fasting has never been easier!
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Doreen Benjamin –
This book is easy to read and written in a way to keep your interest. A lot of great information and helped me a lot!
Highly recommend!
AS –
Very useful & practical book..highly recommend for anyone looking to get healthier and lose weight. Very doable..fasting made simple and easy.
mtspace –
Jason Fung’s book The Obesity Code is an absolute essential read for anyone who has ever been frustrated by the difficulties experienced by people trying to lose weight. It’s a serious, well reasoned, well documented, well argued book on why diets fail; and what to do instead. It demolishes most of what physicians and lay people have assumed to be true about dieting for about two thousand years. To people with short attention spans and little interest in the scientific details it’s might be a tough read.
By contrast, this book is bright and shiny, rich with spot color, photos, tables, plans, and so on. It’s definitely designed as a how-to book for people who just want to pick up a book and start fasting. I find this approach less compelling and less satisfying. I have been doing intermittent fasting successfully for a few years and I came away from this book thinking that had I used this book in making the decision whether to do it I might have not given it the consideration necessary to go ahead. My impression is that the author has not been quite so well served by his publisher as might have been the case.
I am rating the book five stars because the information is accurate, well informed, well organized, and well expressed and that the ambitious graphic design of the book does bring it more appeal to those of us with short attention spans. It’s a good production effort covering an interesting and important idea.
sbmike –
Wow, I found the magic button for weight loss. After having limited success with the whole field of dieting options I stumbled across a talk on youtube by Dr Jason Fung talking about fasting. After the video I searched and ended up buying the audio book and the hard copy. The concept initially terrified me for some reason and when talking to friends who fasted I just shook my head and though there is no way I could do that. One of the fasting approaches recommended however seemed pretty easy. Have dinner and fast for 24 hours, having dinner the next day. I have done that accidentally at times! Well after a 6 days of doing this, I lost 10 lbs (40 to go) and realized that what I thought was breakfast or lunchtime hunger was just my body reminding me of a long held habit of eating I have had. It is incredible that over such a short fast you can turn off insulin based fat storage, and start burning fat. A side benefit is that increased metal clarity occurs fairly quickly and offers additional incentive to fast. Also my moderately elevate blood pressure is getting back to normal. Leads me to think that we have a obesity problem in the country because people eat 3 meals a day and insulin based fat storage never turns off. This is another area where the industrial food business exploits us in their marketing and so called guidelines. I am now convinced there is absolutely no need for 3 meals a day.
Now the book recommends starting out the 24 hr fasting for a couple of days per week. I have decided to do it 5 or 6 times per week. I am pretty confident I can now get to any weight I want. I think the book is important in that it helps you break long held thoughts and misconceptions about eating and going without food. It also discusses other lengths of fasts that can range from 36 hour to weeks. It is so flexible you can do it anytime. And if I am fasting one day, and my friends invite me over for breakfast, or lunch no problem I will forget about fasting that day or have breakfast, but forget about lunch. In my opinion most people who have access to food have never experienced hunger, just mealtime urges. These urges are easy to identify and ignore after a few days (at least for me).
I listened to the audio book first and then used the book for reinforcement for changing my thinking. There is quite a bit of repetition but this was necessary for me to truly break long held conventional thinking.
Basically you are eating less food when only eating once per day. By having a long break between meals you body has time to get into fat burning mode. So while it seems like a magic button, it is not magic at all. You just have to forget about everything you have ever been taught or thought you knew about eating. This book is a great tool to change habits and conventional thinking.
I will try to come back after I reach my goal weight and give an update. But I have no doubt that this is the solution that will allow me to control my weight to whatever level I choose. Read the book. It will change your life!
Shopper2 –
If you have tried everything imaginable to lose weight. Fads, foods, etc. and to yo yo diet as I have now over 40 yrs. You have to read this book. Most logical advice I’ve read ever!
I’m on a positive new adventure for the next part of my life. One that makes sense!
Update: I have been following tips in this book for 3weeks now and have lost 14lbs already. . I feel great and intend on following this FOREVER!!
S. J. C. Armstrong –
I have read countless books on diet over the last year and this is the first one that finds the correct balance between scientific jargon and real life information. It is actually an enjoyable read and applies to all diets.
Kjv –
Explains very clearly about health, food and body. Makes sense. Easy to follow.
I like that you can take it as far as you like. My husband is more extreme he will and can fast longer. I not, I just want to improve my health, lower my sugar intake and give my body recovery time from sugar I do eat on a daily basis.
You’ll find something that fits you in here.
Flavio Corral –
This book is a high-quality, soft-cover, glossy-paper book with supreme clear-letters and detailed photographs and drawings.
The content seems quite good, though I haven’t started to fully read it, yet.
MARY –
As someone with Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) I wish I had access to information like this years ago. I always knew carbs affected my body more than the average person but now I understand the real problem is insulin resistance. I have tried the whole exercise more, eat less plan, for decades and it just doesn’t work. Eating less makes me feel lousy, but strangely, when I fast for longer periods of time between meals, I feel good – really good. I have done low carb diets in the past with great results as far as weight loss, but I always fell back into heavy carb eating once again. I couldn’t sustain the diet, which pushed me back up to a high weight once again and put me at high risk for diabetes. (Women with PCOS are already at high risk for developing Type 2 diabetes)
If you want to be able to keep eating junk food and processed food, don’t try fasting – you will feel awful going from high carbs to no carbs, and if you binge on chocolate you will get a killer headache when you fast. If you are willing to eat healthier foods as you begin intermittent fasting, you will find the whole process much easier to do. I have been more than 60 pounds overweight for thirty years, I have always been a binge eater and chocoholic, but the core of my eating has always been very healthy with lots of vegetables. I find that when I eat only healthy foods, and fast between meals, I feel much more satisfied and far less hungry – which makes this plan easier and easier to do as you stick with it. Out of everything I have tried over the years to lose weight I find intermittent fasting the most sustainable to do and the easiest to work into my life. The best part is that I am losing weight and I feel great. Everything about this plan provides positive reinforcement to keep you going – you see the numbers on the scale going down, you feel more clear headed, you feel more satisfied with less food, high carb foods aren’t so appealing anymore and joint pain disappears. You can even enjoy special occasions without having to stand back while everyone else enjoys the food – intermittent fasting helps you get back on track again quickly and easily without derailing you completely.
Buy this book if you want to try intermittent fasting and buy The Obesity Code if you want to learn in much greater detail the science of weight gain and weight loss and why fasting helps. If you can only buy one of Dr. Fung’s books, I recommend this one. It will change your life!
GeeGee –
This is a great book for beginners