Intermittent fasting isn’t about what you eat but when you eat. It helps you get the most out of every meal and get lean without losing muscle mass. While one of the biggest reasons people choose IF is weight loss, it’s also a pretty great way to reduce stress and simplify your life. You’ve got one less meal to plan, prepare and worry about and more time freed up for whatever it is you want or need to do. What’s not to love about that? The problem is that fasting can sometimes leave you feeling deprived, so I’m here to give you three great reasons to love your fasting-focused lifestyle.
1. With Intermittent Fasting, you can learn to make great choices
In our fast-paced modern world, we tend to spend a lot of time eating. We start to munch as soon as we get up and graze all day long until we finally crash, exhausted, into bed. When you start fasting, your focus will change. You’ll need to compress all those hours of eating into just a few hours a day. That doesn’t mean to stuff your face or binge mindlessly in that time period: Instead, you’ll learn to make great choices about nutrition and eat more mindfully. You’ll eat to fuel your body more effectively while you fast, and that’ll move you towards point two: better focus.
2. IF will help you redirect your focus
Once you free all those hours from eating, you’ll have more free time to do whatever you want. That might not happen right away. After all, until your body adapts to fasting, you might spend a lot of time thinking about food and hunger. Still, you might be pleasantly surprised at how quickly that happens, and once your diet is no longer your primary focus, you’ll find that you can focus more on things that really matter to you, whether that’s your work, your family or your hobbies. You might even discover some new passions!
3. IF will help you redefine your future
One of the biggest benefits of intermittent dry fasting is that it allows you to streamline and simplify your life. You might not realize how much energy the digestive process uses until your body isn’t spending so much time doing it anymore. In fact, your energy levels will likely soar once your body adapts to the fasted level, and you’ll find yourself being more productive and efficient. Your body will be more efficient, too, as it churns through all those built-up toxins. Your brain will function at its best possible level, and with a whole new level of mental clarity, you might just find that anything’s possible.
IF isn’t necessarily a quick fix or a miracle cure. However, it does allow your body to work at its own personal best level. There’s no need to trudge through each day in hunger and deprivation. With intermittent fasting, your body will become a lean, mean, energy-burning machine, and each new day will bring exciting challenges and opportunities. It’s not just another diet: It’s a whole new way of life.
