Dr. Mindy here and on this video I want to teach you the tricks to make intermittent fasting
easier if you're like me I want the shortcut to the best result and on this video I'm going to
show you how you do that with intermittent fasting but let me start off by just welcoming those of
you that are new to my channel I'm excited to share all I know about fasting I'm excited for
you to step into a fasting lifestyle I am on a mission to get a million people here this year
tapped into fasting it is such a cool tool for healing
and those of you that keep coming back for more I just want to say thank you so much, you guys
are incredible our community is incredible and I love sharing this information with you
so I've got three key strategies that I recommend to make intermittent fasting
easier so let's break these down first if you're new to fasting don't pull the band-aid off
quickly I really believe that if you've been living in this sugar burner energy system your
whole life the hardest way to start fasting is just to jump in and do it now I have found men can
do it a little that style a little bit easier than women because we're more homo hormonally sensitive
so if you have a friend and he's a man and he just started intermittent fasting he lost 20 pounds
he's probably more hormonally simple I don't know another way to say that than a woman we're
much more complex when it comes to our hormones so I like this approach when you start intermittent
fasting make sure you're backing your way into this and what that looks like is you just start to
push your breakfast back an hour get a little uncomfortable there once it gets easy then push
it back another hour and then once that's easy push it back another hour before you'll know it
you'll be at 13 to 15 hours it may take you three weeks four weeks to do that totally
fine there are no awards one for the fastest person to implement a fasting lifestyle so be
slow and methodical about it and your body will respond very in a very positive way so make sure
that you're pushing that breakfast back and you're slowly stepping in the other really trick on this
particular topic is that I want to make sure you're not leaning into the processed standard
American diet junk food when you are eating make sure you're taking out those refined carbohydrates
they will make intermittent fasting so much easier and the bad oils as well okay the second step
on how do you make intermittent fasting easier and I love this one is that you're gonna drink
your way into ketosis okay what does that mean so for starters one of the biggest challenges we have
when we come to fasting is this the mind chatter so I recommend that you walk around with water
bottles coffee cups tea like in the beginning when you're not eating and the mind is going what are
you doing what are you doing why did you decide to do this pick up some water pic lean into an extra
cup of coffee maybe the second cup is decaf maybe you lean into some tea there now there are some
drinks that I really like that will make fasting easier so let me show you a couple of them for
starters this is a new product I've been using for the last several months and I love it so it has
monk fruit in it so I'm finding for me it doesn't spike my blood sugar as high as likes a drink that
would have coconut sugar or regular sugar so you can try Organifi's red juice or green juice
the links will be in the companion guide so if you want the links to those just put companion guide
and we'll make sure you get the link to that the other trick that I really like is LMNT's
mineral packets I've been opening these up and just putting them in whatever I'm drinking I put
it in my coffee put it in my water bottle and sometimes just a different taste has my brain
sort of thinking that i'm eating but it also is giving me minerals and you need to be mineral rich
in order to succeed at fasting and the majority of you are mineral depleted because our soils are
depleted so I personally like the raspberry salt or the citrus salt put those in a cup if it's 10
o'clock in the morning and you're trying to go an hour later try tricking the brain a little
bit with a little flavor in your water okay other hacks that i've done and that we really love i
don't have a sample of it here is putting mct oil in your coffee this is really important because it
moves you much quicker over to the fat burner energy system so mct oil is incredible to get your
body making ketones and making ketones quicker so once you start to make ketones ketones will go up
into the brain and they will turn off the hunger hormone so now let's give you the big picture
you pull you're pulling refined carbohydrates out you're slowly pushing your breakfast back an hour
and then you're drinking your cup of coffee with some MCT oil in it my personal favorite MCT oil
is called C8 by Bulletproof we'll put the link in the companion guide and you're putting that
in your in your coffee in the morning make sure your coffee is organic and mold free
we also have links to the right coffee in this is not about going to starbucks and putting in
C8 oil this is about making sure it's toxic free coffee that's in the companion guide as well
and sometimes when when i first started fasting i was like gripping that cup of coffee i was like oh
my god let me get another one and I would then I was trying tea and in the beginning all of that is
really important because you're training your body to operate from this fat burning system so drink
your way into ketosis you're not eating your way into ketosis when you're starting to intermittent
fast but you're drinking your way into ketosis okay third step and as I'm telling you this I'm
thinking this may be my most favorite youtube video I've done yet on intermittent fasting
because these are my favorite hacks the first two that i just told you about but the third one
is definitely my favorite hack which is you gotta boost oxytocin so if you haven't heard me say
this before oxytocin controls cortisol controls insulin, insulin controls your sex hormones so
when you come to fasting you're trying to have an impact on insulin if you're struggling to impact
insulin and your blood sugar you're gonna need to manage cortisol well let's put this into action
a lot of you guys come to fasting and you're like stressed because you're not getting into ketosis
you're stressed because you're hungry and you're just spiking that cortisol and as cortisol goes up
it's really hard to manage insulin and if you can't manage insulin you can't manage glucose
and if you can't manage glucose you're not getting into ketosis so we've got to have some hacks for
helping cortisol when those stress mormons come in and how you can do that is by getting boosts
of oxytocin oxytocin controls all of that okay how do you get boosts of oxytocin well let's say
it's 10 o'clock in the morning you're trying to go longer with your fats you're irritable you're
hungry go find one person that you love if they're local to you in the same room go give them a hug
so you can get some oxytocin to bring cortisol down if they're not local to you pick up the phone
and tell them that you love them, find somebody you can thank go into a state of gratitude if none of
that's possible and you're completely irritated by everybody go find an animal is it a cat or
a dog and just pet an animal if that doesn't work and you're like i don't like animals i don't like
people you can start by hugging yourself just give yourself a big hug that alone or stroke
your own skin and just soothe yourself that alone will help to boost oxytocin so look for oxytocin
hacks so that you can bring cortisol down so you can make fasting a lot easier and as always with
oxytocin my favorite oxytocin hack is to live your life in community so if you need more help with
your fasting you're struggling managing blood sugar join me in my reset academy we have an
incredible group of people that are really diving into the principles of fasting we're teaching
women in there how to fast around her cycle and through menopause so all you got to do is put
reset academy in the in your comments and my team will send you a link for that as well so but those
are my favorite and third being my most favorite which is raise your oxytocin and as always don't give
up on yourself you're bored in a miracle and fasting will prove that to you so enjoy the ride