Dr. Mindy here and on this video I'm going to show you the three stages of intermittent fasting
yes there are three stages it's not as simple as just intermittent fasting there's actually a
progression you can follow that will amplify your fasting results so if you are new to my channel I
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three phases so check this out one of the things that I've noticed around fasting is we sort of
have and I and actually it's not really even phase one stage one there's like a pre-stage
and the pre-stage looks like this huh fasting looks really interesting I'm thinking maybe
i should try fasting how many of you have done that where you sort of watch from afar you maybe
gather all the information and then you decide you're gonna dive in so once you decide you're
gonna dive into intermittent fasting you're now in stage one whether you know it or not and stage one
basically looks like this you've gone from looking at your day in a 24-hour period and eating just
when you wake up and then before you go to sleep and just eating randomly now what you're doing
is you're actually intentionally compressing your eating window and you're leaving a longer time for
fasting remember that eight hours after you put food in your mouth on average you're gonna switch
from a sugar burner into fat burner so as we compress our eating window it's at eight hours
that we start to move into this fat burning place now for some of you that might happen at nine
hours not normally but some people it does some of you it may take more like 15 hours before you're
officially in the fat burning stage so the first stage here is we're compressing our eating window
elongating time for fasting ultimately if you're new to fasting I want you thinking 13 hours
but at the eight hour mark is when you're gonna your body's gonna start to make that switch over
okay second part of this phase is that you've I highly recommend I want to say absolutely but
I know you guys all won't do absolutely that the way I'd like to see it but I'm in it to win it for
your health and I want to encourage you to do the three must food changes like these are the musts
and here are the worst foods you can eat and they're worse for your health they'll make fasting
really difficult it's basically your harmful oils your canola oils your cottonseed oils your corn
oils all those inflammatory oils all the refined carbohydrates the breads the pastas the cakes
the cookies the desserts and any toxic ingredient artificial coloring your red dyes your nutrasweets
those are all artificial ingredients into foods and they make fasting really hard so in stage one
what you're doing is you're compressing your eating window leaving longer time for fasting
and you are avoiding the three must avoid food changes okay what would you expect in stage one
if you do what I just said you should start to feel a loss of hunger now not right away
you might notice in the beginning like oh I'm a little more hungry that happens a lot put it in
the comments if that's happened to you but if you do this every single day yes this is every single
day and you start to train your body what will happen is within usually three to five days your
hunger will go away if you do these techniques okay the second thing in stage one you might see
is better mental clarity you might start to notice huh I think I'm thinking a little bit clearer
I'm not searching for words it may not be dramatic it might be subtle in this stage
but you would start to see that the brain is working a little bit better and then the third
part of the symptom change is that you should start to see that your energy crashes go away
so you might notice that instead of totally plummeting at three o'clock in the afternoon with
your energy you might actually kind of get to four before you crash or you might notice I'm not like
reaching for that third cup of coffee at three in the afternoon so again the changes are subtle
but you should if you're paying attention you should start to notice something
okay once you have mastered this and I would say usually this takes about a week to two weeks
so once you are have been in this phase and you're feeling more comfortable
with this intermittent fasting lifestyle now we are going to go to stage two now stage two
this to me is like full on intermittent fasting so this is 13 to 15 hours of fasting that's
your first fasting ledge and following what I recommend is ketobiotic eating
what is ketobiotic this is where you're keeping you're tracking your macros I like the app carb
manager so you can download carb manager and you track your food and this phase tracking food
is really important so you're going 50 grams net carbs 50 grams of protein and you want over
60 of your food to come from good fat and you want to track that and see where you're at so you're
taking the three must changes food changes and you're now actually putting an intentional
program into using these ketobiotic macros that i just gave you okay if you do this when you've got
yourself there you should start to see some weight loss awesome you should have limitless energy
awesome so this isn't limitless energy isn't like the three o'clock crash is subtle it's like
seven o'clock at night and you're like more energized than you were at seven in the morning
that's to me what limitless energy should feel like and at this phase you should get a little
keto calm keto calm to me means as you're sort of switching over into fat burning and your body is
making ketones you're actually feeling a little calmer it's because you up regulate ketones help
you make GABA which is the neurotransmitter that calms you so in this phase you might be a little
like feeling a little lost and you're trying to figure it all out by this phase you're like hey
I get why everybody loves fasting this makes sense this to me is traditional
intermittent fasting okay what do you do once you're there because a lot of you guys are there
so what do you do then okay I'm gonna come to the other side here we're gonna go to stage three
stage three this is my jam this is what i preach and what i love
and what I write books about so here's how stage three looks like this is where you go huh there's
something a little bit beyond intermittent fasting there's actually six different lengths
fasts and I've done a lot of videos on those it's anywhere from 13 hours to 72 hours my team
I'm sure we'll put some links to those videos in the notes so you can go find those you're also
starting to build yourself what I call a fasting lifestyle so a fasting lifestyle means
you're going to vary your fasts you're going to vary your food and you're going to do it in a
community which is why we do fast training week is we love to pull our online community together and
fast together i've done videos on that too and the last thing on this one women this is where by the
time you get here you are ready to start to map your fasting and your food to your menstrual cycle
or post-menopausal women you're ready to start doing some variation with your fasting so that
you're making sure you're addressing all three hormones estrogen testosterone and progesterone
I've come up with something called the fasting cycle it is going to go in my new book called fast
like a girl we are teaching it in my academy so if you want to learn how to time your fast with your
menstrual cycle or with if you're post-menopausal with your hormones we're teaching that right now
in my academy just put reset academy in your comments and my team will send you a link
okay by the time you get to stage three I can't emphasize this enough by the time you get to stage
three you should be losing weight you should be balancing hormones your moods should be going up
your chronic condition should feel like they're they're they're like
falling away from you and you should start to see blood work change in fact those of you that have
have been in this stage put in the notes put in the comments let me know are you seeing changes
in blood work because i see that in the comments often but here's why these three stages are so
important is when you come to fasting you want you want this result but you got to start here
and when you start here and you don't get this result there's this tendency to be like
oh fasting doesn't work for me fasting works for everyone I promise you so just follow the
progression make sure you've done stage one you're going to stage two and you're in stage three
and you're mastering fasting in stage three so as always I really hope that that helps
and as I you know if you want to learn how to do stage 3 come join me my academy I know it gets a
little more complicated there that's why I have that membership group set up so I can teach you
how to do this for you so just put academy in the notes and that's where you can find
all the information on the academy and here's what I need from you guys I want to know what
stage you're in put it I'm watching on this one so put it in the comments which one of these
stage stages are you in and as always I hope that helps if you resonate with this send it
out into the world so we can start this fasting movement and heal the planet hope that helps