Before I ever tried fasting for weight loss, or even considered it, I was honestly not too convinced that it would be something for me. For the longest time I was the type to cringe at the thought of skipping a meal, especially breakfast. After a very popular diet focusing on intermittent fasting came out I started hearing all the hype surrounding it and of all of the benefits it provided - even other than just the weight loss.
Benefits of fasting for weight loss
Among all of the benefits to fasting that impressed me the most were the amazing similarities that the body undertakes during intermittent fasting and that of a good workout - they are surprisingly similar.
While you are fasting, your body produces many of the same hormones that it does while you are working out. The best part about that is the fact that a normal workout only lasts an hour or so. The best style of fasting, in my opinion, is intermittent fasting. When you perform these types of fasts your body is releasing these hormones for much longer than the one hour.
Those beneficial effects of intermittent fasting for weight loss are:
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