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26. DO YOU EVEN FAST? INTERMITTENT FASTING TURNS YOU INTO A FAT BURNING MACHINE!
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Welcome back to the podcast!!! I am so pumped to be back. Today I am discussing intermittent fasting and the positive impact it has had on my mind, body and soul. Hope you enjoy!
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Life Changes and New Beginnings
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Speaker
what is up what is up it's been a minute I know I've been MIA on the podcast but
00:00:10
Speaker
Things are things are happening in my life. You know, I'm just going through changes. And I think that that is totally normal. People just go through phases of their life. And I know I've been, you know, this podcast has been in the back of my mind. Trust me, I know that there's a few of you guys that actually were listening to my episodes. And, you know, it is something that I do want to get back into. It's just, you know, the things that I'm going through in my life right now.
Revisiting Intermittent Fasting
00:00:39
Speaker
i don't really feel like doing podcast and that's that's totally okay but like i want to get back into it so this episode i'm going to be talking about my recent experience of intermittent fasting now i know i talked about this before but i want to really dive into it because i have been doing intermittent fasting religiously
00:01:03
Speaker
as of recent and the changes I'm seeing in myself is absolutely crazy. And I think it's going to be super, super beneficial for some of you.
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people out there.
Sponsorship and Benefits of Microcybin
00:01:15
Speaker
But before we dive into that, this episode is sponsored by Microcybin. And if you don't know what Microcybin is, it's a micro dosing company. And if you are looking to, you know, level up your life, you know, get your mind right, just really get all that noise and clutter out of your mind, it would be a little bit more calmer, a little bit more focused.
00:01:43
Speaker
a little bit more happier than microcybin is what you need because I've been using microcybin for about two years now and I can honestly say my life has leveled up. I find my mind is a lot more calmer.
00:01:58
Speaker
It's a lot more calmer. I don't overthink anymore. I don't have anxiety. I used to all the time. I used to overthink a lot. And I find microcybin just really helps me stay calm, focused, and just ready to take on anything without there being this other voice in your head telling you what to do.
00:02:21
Speaker
It's almost like you're in control now, a little bit, you know what I mean? But with this microcybin stuff, if I would recommend anything, if you are thinking about doing it, maybe reach out to me. Let's have a conversation. I'll give you everything that you need to know, because I feel like I am experienced with microcybin, you know what I mean?
00:02:41
Speaker
Um, but when you are doing it, you definitely need to be consistent with it. Did you get what I'm saying? Like you're not just going to take a couple of pills and then your life has changed because that's not how it works. So anyways, let's, let's, let's dive into it. Let's dive into it. I'm already a little bit excited. I'm not going to lie. I was like, think I woke up this morning. I was like, man, I want to do a podcast. I haven't done one in a long time.
00:03:09
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And I got a lot to say, I haven't been saying anything lately. Anyways, so intermittent fasting.
Intermittent Fasting: Method and Motivation
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Like I said, I know, I know I talked about this before on one of my episodes, but I want to say I used to do it, but I wasn't really strict with it. You know what I mean?
00:03:31
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So if anyone don't know what intermittent fasting is, basically what my knowledge of it is you have a window of eating. So basically I choose to do eight hours. That's when I eat my meals. Now those other 16 hours of the day, you are not supposed to eat.
00:03:53
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Now you can have water or black coffee, but you're not supposed to intake any calories within those 16 hours. Now before.
00:04:07
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I used to cheat a little bit. Like I would be snacking late at night. I wouldn't go the full 16 hours. Like I was telling myself I was doing it, but I wasn't really doing it, you know? Um, and I wasn't really seeing massive results from this. Now, the reason why I started it again is because I have a friend, um, had a Mina for those of you who know Hattie, um,
00:04:35
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Anyways, he is doing intermittent fasting and he was getting jacked, shredded. I'm like, bro, what are you doing? He's like intermittent fasting. And like this guy, this guy does long fast sometimes. Sometimes he goes like two days. Just apparently it's I've been wanting to try, but I don't know if I can go that long with food. Actually, I know I can. I just don't want to.
00:04:59
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I really look forward to, you know, my meal throughout the day. So anyways, I started doing it. And before, let me just say this, before I started doing it, I wasn't shredded, you know, I was, I'm definitely fit, but like I could grab onto my stomach. And like, I would say it was like two, three inches of fat on my stomach, like around your love handle area.
00:05:27
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And it was thick and like I definitely had some fat on my stomach, 100%. And in one month of doing intermittent fasting and I mean like doing it strict, doing the 16 hours, some days I would actually go longer than 16 hours. Like there's days that I have gone 20 hours without food. That seems wild, right? I bet there's a lot of you listening right now thinking about going 20 hours without food and be like,
00:05:55
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I would never be able to do it. I just can't do that. That's insane. And I used to tell myself that, well, that's just stories that you tell yourself, right? Because we tell ourselves a lot of stories all the time and then we believe it.
00:06:11
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But when your body starts adapting to these changes, right? The first couple of weeks, it's going to suck. If you want to try it, it's going to suck. But then when, you know, the second week's not so bad. Third week's not so bad. Four weeks in, you're not even hungry anymore. But anyways.
00:06:31
Speaker
Back to the fat on my stomach. I, you know, started doing this and within a month, I was, I started grabbing my stomach. I was like, whoa, like my abs are coming back in like quick. And I want to point this out. Like I'm not taking any supplements.
Impact of Fasting on Body and Mind
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Um, like I used to, I used to take all these supplements, like fat burners and, uh, BCAs and pre-workouts and all this type of stuff. Like I am legit just eating.
00:07:01
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And I'll have a protein shake, because I actually like protein shakes. I normally put some, I'll have a half a banana, peanut butter, milk, ice cubes, a little bit of oatmeal, and some protein. And yeah, it's so good. But anyways, all I've been doing is just eating.
00:07:25
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eating, leading like whole foods and doing that, you know, eight hour window. But most days I go past that 16 hours and I am not hungry whatsoever. Like at all. Well, another thing I noticed is I look forward to that meal a lot more than what I used to when I was just eating all day long.
00:07:49
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because you go that long, it's almost like you start appreciating the food more. And then you sit down and you're like, Oh man, this meal is great. Like before I would, you know, I'd wake up and just eat and just eat all day long. And you're like, I wouldn't really appreciate it. And it's so, it's so wild to me to even think about the amount of food I used to put in my body trying to get the body I'm having right now.
00:08:18
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Like does it, that makes, it doesn't, it doesn't make sense to me because you know, I've, I, most people are told like you want to get big and, uh, you know, put on muscle. You got to eat, right? You got to eat. But I find for me, ever since I've been doing this and it's probably been maybe two months that I've been doing this intermittent fasting, like religiously.
00:08:41
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I am noticing that I'm putting on some size. Now I'm not getting huge. I'm not a bodybuilder look like whatsoever. I am not a bodybuilder. Okay. Don't get the twisted, but I'm definitely noticing that my shoulders are popping a little bit more when I'm working out. My chest is a little bit more built and my abs are coming out. I got that V cut.
00:09:07
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And I'm eating less food. Now, when I do eat, they are large meals. You know, I'm not just having like a regular meal that what I would normally have just say, if I was eating all day, when I have that, like I haven't yet today, it's two o'clock. I would say after I get off, it's been 16 hours now. So after I get off this podcast, I'm going to go cook a meal and.
00:09:29
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i'll just tell you probably what what i would have right so i'm probably gonna have like four slices of turkey bacon i'm probably gonna have like four or five eggs i'm gonna have an orange i'm gonna have that that protein shake i just told you about
00:09:44
Speaker
Um, I'll probably cut up like three potatoes and just eat that. And yeah, that'll be about it. Maybe, I don't know. I'll probably throw some, something else in there. If I, normally if I have leftovers or something from the night before, I'll, I'll warm that up too with everything I just, just named off. And then I will probably have another meal around like seven, eight o'clock. And then that's it.
00:10:12
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Sometimes I'll have a, like a late night snack, you know, something like just like a yogurt bowl, something like that. Well, most days it's just two meals a day. That's it. Drink water, coffee, boom. And I gotta say I do feel like my body feels really, really great. And I also seen a lot of people online talking about how intermittent fasting is really good for your joints.
00:10:40
Speaker
Now I don't know if this is a coincidence, but it lined up pretty, pretty good. So before I started intermittent fasting, I had a bad shoulder. Actually two of my shoulders were pretty messed up. And I do think it's from ego lifting or I don't know what it was from. Could've been from basketball, but I'm kind of leaning towards ego lifting in the gym, just trying to lift heavy weight that I can't actually do. And I probably heard something.
00:11:10
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So for about, I would say a good two months, maybe even longer, uh, any type of pushing movements with my hands, like if it was the incline, uh, dumbbell chest press or, you know, uh, shoulder chest press or flat, any, any type of those movements, I could not lift any weight at all. Like.
00:11:34
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The weight I was struggling with was like, normally my warmups. And it was like that for a long time. And like, I was doing a lot of maintenance on my shoulders, the resistant bands and like warming up properly and like hanging from the bar. Um, cause all those things are great for, you know, uh, strengthening your rotator cuffs and you know, that's what I was doing. And then.
00:11:56
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I started intermittent fasting. And then about two, three weeks in, the pain was just gone. I started lifting, I started lifting a little bit more, a little bit more. And now like my joints are great. So I don't know if that was just a coincidence of how it started it or whatever, but like I was also doing a lot of maintenance on my shoulder.
00:12:16
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but I feel like intermittent fasting got a lot to do with that, 100%. Talking about shoulder injuries, if you are having a bad shoulder, I've heard that
00:12:29
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just hanging from a bar like a you know like a pull-up bar if you just like hang there let your body hang for maybe like 20 30 seconds and then you know stop for a little bit and just do that like almost every day every every other day they say that uh it'll help your shoulder injuries
00:12:48
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Um, I also use a, if you guys see me in the gym, you're going to see me working out. So we're starting my workout with a resistant bands and doing like internal and external, like, um, rotator cuff, uh, exercises with the resistant bands. And I always do that every single day now, just to like, strengthen those rotator costs because it don't take much. It really don't take much to have an injury in the gym.
00:13:16
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And then when you injure yourself, you can't really lift much weight and it sucks. And like, you're just, you know, it's, it's, it just sets you
Preventing Gym Injuries
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back. So if I were to recommend anything, if anybody that they're listening to this, that you guys are working out, make sure you warm up properly. Okay. That's something I wish that I knew when I was younger, because I used to just jump in the workouts and
00:13:43
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i don't know how many times i hurt myself and not warm up properly like like now when i do legs i'll do at least six seven minutes of all of these like just body weight movements with my legs just like getting everything warmed up nice and then when i go to do that first workout it's all really super lightweight
00:14:06
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you know, get the blood flowing and then get to the heavy stuff, right? But you wanna warm up properly. So anyways, back to the intermittent fasting.
Fasting for Health and Clarity
00:14:16
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Yeah, if you are looking to drop some weight, or maybe you just wanna feel better, or maybe you wanna get rid of that hunger, starving feeling that you have all day long, because I remember those days,
00:14:34
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When I used to wake up in the morning, I would be starving. Like just, you know, the hunger pains were like, Oh, I need the food. And then you eat. Right. And then around maybe two hours later, around like nine or 10, you're starving again. And you're just like that. You're just up and down all day long. I don't have those hunger pains at all. Ever. Never.
00:15:00
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I feel like I could probably go this whole day without eating and not really be hungry. Like I'm not hungry now. I'm only eating because like, you know, the 16 hours is off and I'm going to feel my body.
00:15:10
Speaker
Because it's because you need calories, right? But yeah, if you're looking to get rid of those hunger pains, you know, you want to get another thing too is brain fog. Because, you know, I, I, I take I consume, micro dosing and functional mushrooms, and that stuff gets rid of the brain fog. But if you're not even doing that,
00:15:31
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Uh, intermittent fasting will definitely help with, uh, getting rid of brain fog. Your, your mind would be a lot more focused and, uh, you've just, it'll just be like, you won't wake up with that, that, that, uh, brain fog. You know what I mean? So yeah, I would definitely recommend that if you are just looking to better your health, um,
00:15:55
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feel better. They also say to intermittent fasting is really good for your skin. Um, I was actually just listening to a podcast today. Um, and Jason Derulo obviously, you know, Jason Derulo, but
00:16:09
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He was on this podcast saying that he used to have to take Accutane and all this stuff because he would get like bumps on his face and his skin and someone introduced him to intermittent fasting and he was taking his Accutane stuff for years. He started intermittent fasting and his skin just cleared up and he don't take Accutane anymore and he loves it, right? I was listening to everything he was saying and I was like, yeah,
00:16:37
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Yeah, I feel like that too. So I think it's really great. It's actually mind blowing like how much my abs are coming in now. And, you know, I'm definitely getting a lot stronger.
00:16:53
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A lot of people will say if you're eating less, you can't really push a lot of weight. I beg to differ. I feel like I am just getting stronger. I'm lifting more weight. I'm pushing myself harder. I feel great. My body feels great. My joints feel great. I'm looking great. I'm feeling pretty good about this intermittent fasting stuff.
00:17:15
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You know, I never really done it religiously before, but now that I am, I was seeing results in a month. Just one month. I was seeing fat just come off my stomach. So I wanted to do that. I really wanted to do this podcast today and talk about it because I'm sure a lot of you have heard intermittent fasting, but you know, I like to put things to the test and I've done the same thing. Like when I stopped, you know, taking supplements, I just wanted to put it to the test.
00:17:45
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just see what would happen. So I put the intermittent fasting to the test. And I love it. It's great. I feel great.
00:17:53
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I would definitely 100% recommend it. So anyways, if you do try instrument fasting, if you do listen to this episode and you know, you do, you like the, the fasting hit
Invitation to Experiment with Fasting
00:18:06
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me up. Let me know. Let me know how it is. I'd like to like to know how it goes, but I would definitely recommend it and we'll leave it on that. So happy to be back. Hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did enjoy this episode and please send it to a friend, send it to your mama.
00:18:23
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Send it to your dad. Send it to someone that needs to do intermittent fasting. And I hope you guys have a great day. Peace.