Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

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After 20+ years of yo-yo dieting and gaining and losing weight and feeling like a failure, this book has changed my life forever. However this book is written (and read) from the experience of Gin who has and is living the lifestyle just made so much more sense. If you are really interested in benefits of intermittent fasting, read The Obesity Code or the Circadian Clock. Registered office address: Unit 34 Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EF.

Understand that uncontrollable or constant hunger is a sign that you have made some dietary choices that aren’t working for you. Gin is also a mother to two adult sons (and she is thankful every day for the intermittent fasting lifestyle that makes her life easier).I also appreciate that she lost 80 pounds and at the time of the writing had kept it off for two years. Gin earned a Doctor of Education degree in Gifted and Talented Education in 2009, a Master's degree in Natural Sciences in 1997, and a Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education in 1990. In fact, there was an alternate method that also became popular—the “alternate-day fasting protocol” or what we also know as the “up-and-down” approach.

By following the Delay, Don't Deny formula, I've learned how to listen better to the needs of my body and am thrilled to share that 16-weeks into this new lifestyle, I've already lost 20 pounds. Gin is co-host of The Intermittent Fasting Podcast with fellow author and intermittent faster, Melanie Avalon. Trading Address (Warehouse) Unit E, Vulcan Business Complex, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EB. Here, you’ll start with a six-hour eating window right away and reduce it to four hours by the end of the month.Fasting for two consecutive days will impact your energy levels and can slow your metabolism, making it difficult for you to lose weight.

I like that the author presents a disclaimer up front that she is not a medical expert and to talk to your doctor before starting this type of health plan. While you can chose how much you want to fast and what exactly you want to eat in our eating window, if you want to enjoy the TRUE benefits of IF (and there are many! Intermittent fasting makes so much sense to me and it's something I will be able to adopt for the long term. Gin's clear explanations made it seem a lot less kooky, a lot less restrictive, and a lot more manageable for someone who wants a normal life that involves sharing meals and social events with family and friends.

Over the course of 28 days, you gradually shrink the size of the window until you can eat within a six-hour window each day and fast for 18 hours. I liked the multiple levels of support Gin provides whether it is through a IF Facebook group, her IF podcasts or other means. I've been a member of the facebook group of same title and I kept hearing "read the book; just read the book; read Gin's book" to every question that was asked on the page. but getting this book was certainly a TREAT as it covers almost ANYTHING and EVERYTHING anyone needs to know about actually DOING Intermittent Fasting.

It wasn’t the author’s recommendations that threw me off - I’ve been fasting for health reasons for some time now, and have read most of what is available on the science of how and why it works. Once this happens, you begin losing weight, and you will notice that fasting becomes much easier because you have plenty of energy. This is the goal: to be in a place where you are listening to satiety signals and you are not fasting through sheer willpower alone.I recommend you listen to this book even if you have read/listened too many other books on intermittent fasting. I think you'll get the best advice in this one and if you still have questions Gin manages a few very welcoming and judgement-free Facebook groups with more than 100,000 members! Gin Stephens lives in Augusta, Georgia, where she has been following an intermittent fasting lifestyle since 2014. I have seen these links in footnotes of other books, but never considered reading them myself until the author suggested it. There are two ways to manage your fasting days; you can do a full clean fast, which involves only drinking approved beverages, or you can eat a limited amount, only taking in 500 calories on those down days.