by Donna Reish
In this Fast Shot episode, Donna Reish, blogger, author of 100 curriculum books for preschool through twelfth graders, seeker of health and fitness, and Intermittent Fasting teacher, talks about the benefits of water and what to do when you can’t stomach water during your fasting hours. She begins the broadcast with the many ways water benefits us during fasting, weight loss, and for health. She then describes the importance of measuring what you want to move–as in counting your water each day. Then Donna gives several potential solutions to the water-makes-me-nauseous-during-fasting issue, including various kinds of water, sparkling water, ice, hot water, lemon, and lime. Finally, she describes other out of the box ways to get water in, including coffee, tea, decaf coffee/tea, flavored waters, and tanking up during your eating window. She encourages listeners to implement Bert Herring’s “study of one” to determine anything that might spike insulin during the fast and the importance of avoiding those things.
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by Donna Reish
WHY
1) You have special foods to look forward to during your eating window! This always makes starting easier.
2) You can be a fat burner by January 1st—get ahead of those New Year’s resolutions, and make IF a lifestyle!
3) Feel good during the holidays–instead of so much food heaviness, etc.
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by Donna Reish
I love questions from readers and viewers! They cause me to think deeply, research more, and examine things from different points of view. So send me questions! 🙂
Today’s Fast Shot video is about weight maintenance. Oh glorious day! I can’t wait…how about you?
So here are some thoughts I have as someone who is still 20 pounds from that exhilarating place! 🙂
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by Donna Reish
I wanted to give my FB group a little pep talk and help them make IF a lifestyle during the upcoming holidays, so I made a quick Fast Shot video for them that I thought you, my blog readers and YouTube viewers, might find helpful too.
Happy Thanksgiving! And blessings to you on your weight management and health goals this holiday season!
Preparing for Thanksgiving With IF
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by Donna Reish
In this Fast Shot episode, Donna Reish, blogger, author of 100+ curriculum books, and Intermittent Fasting teacher, explains to listeners how to go about adding a fasting hour (or hours) to your fasting window. She starts by giving some ideas for when someone might want to add fasting hour/hours, including preparing for a special occasion, when someone is plateaued for a while, working on getting rid of the last ten to twenty pounds, and more. She then recommends when someone might NOT want to add more fasting time. Donna then looks at a couple of ways to add an hour and advises people to choose their plan ahead of time–another hour daily, extending their daily average via an app, adding an hour on weekends, etc. Finally, she gives tips and tricks for making it through another hour of fasting, including how to trick ghrelin, how to avoid dehydration and mineral imbalances, and more.
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by Donna Reish
Welcome to another Fast Shot Video post! I have loved creating these! They give me a chance to answer reader’s questions immediately in my private FB group–and I love the challenge of trying to stay under ten minutes! (Failed this time…but close at around twelve minutes!)
This is a super important question for people just starting out in IF (and one reason that I created the 20 page freebie, “IF Start Up Charts”! and my month-long course). The first few weeks can be challenging with hunger and the hangries!
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