Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy, and Balance Hormones

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The first section of Fast Like A Girl is all about the science of fasting. In the book, I bring you the best science with the most straightforward explanation of fasting. Plus, there’s a whole chapter on hormones and why you need to shift metabolically. I rewrote each chapter four times. There were days when I was almost in tears because I had to ensure that everything was something you would benefit from. I dug deep into those early chapters to make sure they hit home. I love the entire book, but especially the first sections are profound. About Navigating Hormone Balance With LeAnn Rimes This book also includes more than 50 recipes based on the two food plans—ketobiotic and hormone feasting—she created to best support women’s hormones. And it has recipes specifically created to break a fast such as her Coconut Cacao Chia Pudding. After menopause, ovaries in women shut down. At this stage, sex hormones are usually low. Therefore, fasting should be kept at a minimum. For a menopausal woman, intermittent fasting is the best. Finally, don’t forget about FEAST DAYS! Yay! The biggest mistake I see people make when they implement a ketogenic diet or fasting diet is that they forget that their body needs to cycle between feasting and fasting, so make sure you are including hormone and nutrient promoting feast day into your fasting lifestyle. Here is what a healthy feast day for me looks like! Finally, the concept of linking a fasting cycle with your hormonal cycle, to my research, doesn’t seem to exist anywhere outside of this book.

Funnily enough, women (mothers especially) love fasting while men dislike it. How come women are susceptible ones? Why is fasting challenging for women? It's amazing that once we stop eating (after just 17 hours) the cells literally rebuilt and heal themselves and we don't need to do anything for it. A woman in this category experiences the normal 28-day cycle. For her, she can fast as she pleases between day 1 and day 12. I understand how appealing it can be for women to believe that a 30-day fasting reset followed by a lifetime of following a cycle of starving and eating with limitations will change their lives and waistlines, but I can’t stress enough how important it is to think critically whenever you come across books like this one. I think it’s great Pelz has included such a variety of nutrient dense fruits, vegetables, and legumes, but the credibility train stops when they are separated out into lists based on nothing but an idea.Metabolic switching worked perfectly with our ancestors’ habits. Today, we often don’t fully reach a fasted state because we have access to food 24/7. The benefits of fasting vary with the length of the fast, and we’ll cover different fasting windows and their uses later in the Blink. But first, let’s look at another important component that impacts the science of fasting: a woman’s cycle. The first part was just barely skimmed as I’ve done extensive research on fasting and learning about my cycles already. hour fast: When you reach 17 hours without eating you will start to stimulate autophagy. What this means is the intelligence of your cells has been turned on and they are able to repair themselves. This is best for people with autoimmune conditions. Is there ever a time you should stop fasting? Yes! If your ketones get above 7, your blood sugar drops below 40 or you are not feeling well, you should break your fast. You can also try drinking salt water or taking a mineral supplement like MIN to help stabilize minerals during fasting. At a time when all of us are looking for ways to improve our health and vitality, Dr. Mindy Pelz offers great advice. This book is about fasting, but also so much more. It’s about our womanhood, our health and our lives. – Marianne Williamson, four-time New York Times bestselling author

In this section, we also learn that Pelz advocates for social media as a great source of health solutions, explaining that “ the upside of social media is that you can teach yourself how to solve many of your health challenges”, and I am beginning to understand why Pelz’ YouTube channel is plugged so many times throughout this book. Generally, both sexes have a hormone called Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GRH). This GRH regulates the activities of our reproductive organs. In women, GRH’s regulation functions are coordinated – and for good reasons. They decide the cycles and schedules of women’s ovulation. Famine (>8 hours without food) switches our energy into ketogenic, fat-burning cycle which gives us clarity of mind, calm and energy that were important to hunt the next meal. If our ancestors got weak and tired when there was no food around...well, we wouldn't be around. Nature optimized for periods when food was scarce and that's what we need to create today with fasting.

How women should fast differently?

This book explains a women’s cycle in such clear, concise, details. I wish I had it when I was younger because it explains what and why our bodies do what they do. Even at my age, I didn’t understand the complexity of our hormones. Full Book Name: Fast Like a Girl: A Woman’s Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy, and Balance Hormones We will link the fascinating episode below for you, so you can have a listen - it's absolutely worth an hour - actually 2, of your time.Here we outlinethe 4 different phases highlighted in the podcast forreference. Day 1-10 - “Power phase” Sugar (carbs converted into glucose for energy) raises our blood sugar that cells use as fuel. The problem is that our blood sugar is high 24/7 because of how often and what we eat which leads to insulin resistance -> obesity and diabetes. We were not designed to gorge on carbs all day long, every day. Carbs burn fast and are like paper in a fire. There are two distinctive styles of eating you can consider while fasting: a ketobiotic diet and hormone feasting.

Once you’re comfortably fasting 13-15 hours, you’ll want to streamline your macros a bit more. You’ll continue staying under 50 net carbs, but also under 50 net grams of protein, with 60% of your food coming from healthy fats . Drinking water and maybe coffee during this fast is okay. hour fasting offers the following benefits: cellular repair, detox, cancer prevention, gut repair, aids with anxiety and depression, and brain and memory loss. Fast Like a Girl: A Woman’s Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy, and Balance Hormones by Dr. Mindy Pelz – eBook Details One of the things that I have committed to doing for myself and all of you is always showing up authentically. I believe we live in this world where it’s easy to put on a highlight reel and just show all the good things in your life. However, this will set you up for disappointment because life isn’t a highlight reel. Also, we often find ourselves comparing our lives to the highlight reels of others. So, I want to be as transparent as possible about my journey and why I decided to write Fast Like A Girl. Why I Decided To Write Fast Like A Girl After mastering autophagy fasting, you may want to move into the more advanced fasts like dinner-to-dinner, 36-48 hour or even 3-day water fast. How to break your fast?The tools in Fast Like A Girl, will see me through my life, and adopting this as a lifestyle. I have witnessed first hand how fasting has healed both me and my husband. Anybody who wants to be healthier, to learn about benefits of fasting and to try it in an easy way. I borrowed this book from my wife and not only did it teach me about fasting but also about hormonal changes women go through during their period. When your goal is to burn fat, the best food to break your fast with might surprise you—it’s fat! Yes, you read that right. Good fats can help stabilize blood sugar and typically don’t disrupt the fasting state, allowing your body to continue burning body fat. In fact, consuming fat after fasting doesn’t technically break your fast; it allows you to extend your fasting period. Some good sources of fat include avocados, bone broth, any type of nut or nut butter, and olives. Final Summary and Review

We are cortisol forgiving at this stage, which means that we may tolerate higher stress. You could consider Intermittent Fasting (IF), or time restricted eating (TRE)like 16/8. Day 11-15 - “Manifestation phase” As a society women approach our day to day life as if,what happensinside our bodies would be the same day in day out. When the reality is that women’s bodies work on a cycle and this cycle affects performance, metabolisation, how women’s brain and body works. The book talked how in one of the hormonal stages stress and rising cortisol caused progesterone to plummet, which leads to complications such as missed cycles, irritability and troubles with sleep. Fast Like a Girl is a must-have-guide for resetting your hormones, ageing beautifully and looking and feeling fantastic. But even more importantly, following Dr. Mindy’s guidance can have a profound impact on generations to come because fasting is the ultimate detox. Buy a copy for your daughters and granddaughters, teach them to Fast Like a Girl and help put an end to this epidemic of hormone imbalances, infertility and – ultimately – on the chronic illnesses in our children. – Donna Gates M Ed, ABAAHP, internationally bestselling author and founder of The Body Ecology Diet Fasting can provide significant health benefits , for a variety of health issues, symptoms and conditions. Because fasting works to repair and heal on a cellular level, research suggests that it can help conditions like obesity, diabetes, sleep apnea, some types of cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, arthritis, asthma, multiple sclerosis, IBS and chronic or autoimmune conditions.

Males and Females Respond Differently To Intermittent Fasting

She claims that in this book, we will find proven strategies, and condition specific protocols, because she is not selling a one size fits all approach. But I don’t see any reference to a clinical study where she would be able to actually prove her strategies at all; they seem like just her opinion. Get a blood reader like the Keto Mojo for this step, and learn how to measure your blood sugar and ketones . You’ll take a reading right after you wake up and a second reading right before you eat your first meal. What you want to see is that blood sugar is decreasing and ketones are increasing. If this isn’t happening, you’ll want to try increasing your fasting window and also taking a closer look at your macros.