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Apparently my voice is going out because it's so depressed. But, uh,
I wanted to take this opportunity,
I guess to do a video being that we really can't go outside because it's about
to pour rain at any minute. Looking outside my windows are there. Um,
I want to just make a quick video, um,
on my intermittent fasting experience. Um,
this is more of a video pertaining to my personal experience rather than what
intermittent fasting is and how it's been going for me.
I have been doing it for about a month now, maybe four or five weeks,
somewhere in between there. And I've been doing it every day.
I'm doing the 16 and eight method.
So basically I'm fasting for 16 hours and then I have an eight hour eating
window.
So more specifically my hours of eating and not eating.
Um, I'll have my first meal of the day around one,
two o'clock or somewhere in between there and I'll stop eating at seven o'clock.
So seven, and on eating. Actually I'll say when I am not eating,
while I'm fasting, what I do consume,
I don't take any supplements or anything like that. Or if I do have vitamins,
I'm not taking it during my fasting period.
I'll take that during my eating window. Um,
I drink obviously water. Um, my apple cider vinegar drink,
which is basically just two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar and some cold for
fridge water, um, about eight ounce glass.
I'll mix it up and drink it out of a straw. I could put it down pretty good.
Some people like to doctor it up. If you do, I would look into it cause um,
during your fast you don't want to take in any calories,
especially drinking calories either. So just keep that in mind. Um,
green tea, if I mentioned that, um, nothing in it.
Of course I'll just boil some water, have a tea bag and I'll drink some green tea
or coffee or espresso. Again, black,
I won't put anything in my coffee or espresso for obvious reasons because you
don't want any calorie intake during you're fasted state. Um,
when I do eat, um,
I not that hard on myself.
Obviously when you break your fast is a big deal because you don't want to fast
and then get all your um, like insulin levels down and you know,
your blood sugar's really good and,
and you don't want to go ahead and have like a Mcdonald's drive thru,
like for your first meal of the day or any drive thru for that matter. Um,
a candy bar, a bunch of you know, candy, whatever you want to be logical about it.
Go ahead and put in a good rule of thumb to put in. Um,
when you're breaking your fast. Especially is high protein,
high healthy fats and low carbs.
What I personally do when I, I love carbs. You know,
obviously I love my bagels, breads, that sort of thing. White Rice.
If I do have anything like that, I keep it towards um, the beginning of my fast.
So like when I break my fast, my first meal of the day, I'll have a Bagel,
but then I won't have any more carbs for the rest of the day.
Not that I am intentionally trying to take carbs out of my diet cause I feel
like carbs are still important for you know, for your body.
They might not be the healthiest, but you know,
I'm not gonna rule it out altogether,
but I tried to keep 'em towards the beginning of my eating period rather than
say eating right before I'm getting ready to fast, if that makes sense.
Which it should. Um, but uh,
usually a big, I've eat a lot of eggs. I'm like,
I'll break my fast, I'll either have my protein shake or um,
I'll have some scrambled eggs and I'll have a Tortilla,
some salsa and I'll make a breakfast burrito per say. Um,
something like that. I like green peppers. Uh,
of course you can't really overdose on vegetables, so whatever vegetables,
I don't even count that vegetables in my calorie counting to be honest with you.
If I do, I've been pretty lax on counting my calories lately,
but I've been doing it since I started intermittent fasting up to about a week
ago. I've just been getting lazy by using my pal,
my fitness pal on my phone and I've been averaging around 900 to a thousand
calories a day just from intermittent fasting.
Obviously trying to stay under 1200 just because I want to lose a little weight.
So,
but I highly recommend this app for your phone because it's, I mean,
as a beginner myself, counting macros or calories in general,
um, I found it very user friendly, this app.
So I'll link that below or you can look that up on your phone and if that's
something that you're interested in. Um,
another tip that I wanted to mention too that I've been lazy with lately but
I've noticed, um,
especially in the beginning really good results with was if you are thinking of
intermittent fasting right before you have your first meal and it doesn't have
to be right before you break your fast or anything,
but sometime during your fasting window or period,
um, I would really consider working out,
even if it's a light workout or some aerobics or yoga or walking or something
athletic for, you know, half hour to an hour.
It's just going to really amp up the benefits of the fasting.
Now,
intermittent has been linked to similarities with the Keto Diet.
I can't really speak on the Keto Diet because I've never personally implemented
a Keto diet, um, or looked up on exactly what it is.
But at the similarity I believe is, um,
when the Kiddos in your body are released into your bloodstream after a certain
period of time,
which caused causes a increase in weight loss because you're actually tapping
into the stored that within your body. Something along those lines.
Because I know with intermittent fasting, what happens is, well,
let's just put it this way,
on an any given day without intermittent fasting, when you eat right,
let's just take this example. Your body is working,
its uses energy to process your food, right? It, um,
from the time that you eat your food to the time you secrete your food,
your body's working to process the food. Okay? And that takes energy.
That takes work. Um, I believe I read somewhere like three to four,
three to five hours in total. It takes to digest just one meal.
Well obviously this takes energy.
So when your body doesn't have any food digest,
not only are you giving it a rest, relax a little bit, um,
and kind of just given an a break, but your body needs energy still,
so its not getting it from the food is going to tap into your store fat for
energy so you can keep it moving. You know,
you can keep going and function throughout your day. Um,
and that's may.... may have some similarities with the Keto Diet as well.
I just know too that it's beneficial with the intermittent fasting for which I
think this is similar to Keto. Um, your high protein,
high fats, low carbs or no carbs with Keto, something like that.
Very similar with the intermittent fasting or recommended when you do eat with
intermittent fasting. So, um,
three benefits that I've personally noticed is from only doing it for like a
month or so I've noticed through specific benefits that I wanted to mention in
this video or include in this video.
And one has been surprisingly my energy levels and this is during my fasted
state. Now, I've mentioned before in a previous video that I had, um,
a few months ago come off Adderall, which I was becoming really addicted to.
Um,
obviously getting all my energy from Adderall and being off that learning how to
basically motivate myself again and get to that natural energy to where I don't
have to be so dependent on a medication to get through my day.
Well that was a process in itself,
but I was really struggling with getting that motivation back, you know?
I mean it was a few months and that even lyin, so, um,
with this particularly intermittent fasting,
when I started this about a month ago with, after the first week or so,
I've really started noticing clarity,
which actually was my second benefit that I was gonna mention and energy levels.
So I'd wake up and I like to drink like a liter of water first.
Um, just to get my kids off and all that before I get back home.
And I'm just drinking. I'm not like downing it in one sitting,
but I'm just drinking it before I even drink my coffee or anything.
And I get most of it down. Usually I'm not drinking all of it before then,
but before I get back home in any way.
Um, but that, between that and the water, perhaps it's giving me energy,
but I'm noticing too that I'm more clear, clear headed.
My brain isn't so foggy or drained or just miserable.
The weather has a big effect on me as it does a lot of people In the Midwest.
We are struggling for nice weather compared to say like people in California or
Tennessee even. It's, it really brings me down when I can't be out.
So that was a big factor too. Like right now it's raining, it's gray outside,
but I have enough energy to say even do this video. I, if that makes sense.
And I haven't ate yet. Um,
I'm due to eat in about 30 minutes for my first meal or so,
and I'm pretty pumped up man, I'm still talking fast and all that.
I don't know that can say anything. Um,
but for the clarity being my second advantage that I wanted to mention,
especially when I do decide to do a little workout or whatnot before I do eat,
um, I noticed that I could push a little bit more.
I can stay with it a little bit longer. Um, you know,
I could do a good like 30 minutes on the stairmaster and those things are tough
at the gym or what not. And I was doing this before. I'm not doing it now,
but I can finish it all in, not think about, okay,
well that was good enough and quit. And just the, you know,
a little wussy I just more clear and level headed. I want to push through.
I'm feeling good. I don't know it may, it may just be a mindset, but, um,
I've just noticed intermittent fasting has really has contributed to that.
Those two things for sure. Energy and um,
and clarity in the mind.
And the third thing that I wanted to mention off the top of my head is it's
really helped me to kick some extra pounds that I want to kick here,
that I've been on a mission to do for the past month or couple months or so.
Um, obviously at the beginning of my weight loss journey,
I was the first month I would say I didn't implement intermittent fasting.
I just was okay..... more conscientious on what I'm eating,
kind of restricting my calories, drinking more water.
And that did help a little bit, but I wasn't, man,
it's like I didn't even lose weight, water weight really fast that first month.
I'm still like, Okay God, oh, half a pound to pound to go. Well, come on,
this has to be a big...I quit Starbucks.
I was going to go to Starbucks every day, but once I um,
implemented intermittent fasting, this was the second month leading up to today.
Now, um, I dropped five pounds in that first week.
Crazy!!!! Altogether now I've lost 10 pounds altogether now.
So I started now just going from the beginning,
intermittent fasting about 143 pounds.
I weighed myself actually this morning was my weigh-in and I weigh 135 pounds.
So I mean give or take a few pounds too,
before I started intermittent fasting, I lost a total,
but it's really helped me to lose on an average about two pounds a week.
So again, I'm doing this every day. Um,
and so far it's been, it's been really great for me personally. Oh,
you know, so far so good. I plan on doing another check-in um, in another month.
I like to give it a good month and then post some pictures to kind of gauge and
I'm not exercising a lot right now. I want to,
after I drop some pounds and I'm going to start doing exercise videos and,
and getting into a regimen and kind of sharing that just to tone and lean up
after, I just want to see how this is working without any kind of added routines.
I want to just make a video based on intermittent fasting and its results within
itself.
And not couple it too much with like exercise or anything else because I want to
see how it works on its own and give an honest good review on that. So....
So if you guys have any questions or any information that you can give me,
um, concerning intermittent fasting or perhaps your personal journey,
please share them with me.
I love to read other people's and look into other people's journeys,
um, whether it be with intermittent fasting or something else that's working for
them.
Let me know if you want to continue with me on this journey.
Um, and see my...my videos on intermittent fasting and health related videos.
Nutrition-Related videos.
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I'm getting into some children health and nutrition as well.
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I plan on, I want to do videos twice a week. This is a brand new channel,
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Editing included and finding good video and audio. So bear with me.
But, um, it's either going to be,
do videos on Tuesdays and Thursdays or Tuesdays and Fridays.
I haven't really decided yet, but, um, once I do decide,
obviously you'll be the first to know and I will post it onto my page so
everyone else will know. But again, thank you for joining me.
Thank you for letting me ramble on a little bit about myself.
I'm still trying to get used to the fact that talking about myself.
So I'm doing these videos to just as a side note,
to help keep myself accountable and keep myself motivated, even if it is,
I am just talking to myself and nobody watches,
at least I have myself, right?
So again, thank you. If you are watching. Thank you, I appreciate it.
And I will be back again with more progress and other related videos.
So take care guys. In the meantime peace!
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