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The 2- Day Fast. 0 Flares. Facebook. 0Google+0. Twitter. 0Buffer. Flares. The two- day fast is not to be confused with that. About a month ago I was asked by a few people about this 5: 2 Diet, and it sounded a lot like my own special fasting strategy.

But it wasn’t. The 5: 2 Diet is some adapted version made for weaklings, where you are “allowed” to eat 5. So, the 5: 2 diet is not fasting. It’s just calorie restriction, and it’s vastly inferior to my 2- day fasting strategy for the following reasons: The 2- Day Fast gives you a natural high. The 2- Day Fast is a great exercise for Breaking out of Homeostasis. The 2- Day Fast gets you ripped pretty damn fast. The 2- Day Fast is a 4. For Beginners: Fasting 1.

Note: If you’re new to fasting, here are three summary posts I’ve written about two of the most famous books about intermittent Fasting. Part 1. Eat Stop Eat – 2.

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Part 2. Fast- 5 diet – ca 5 hours to eat every day and 1. Part 3. My take on IF, bulletproof coffee and miscellaneous stuff. Most people think that certain things in life are “set in stone”; they think hormonal levels are one of these things that cannot be changed. I have good news for you: Those people are wrong.

You CAN change your eating patterns and how your body responds to hunger. I speak from experience. I am NEVER hungry, except after working out.

This is GREAT because: It saves me lots of time and money, It helps me stay lean, It makes me more productive and,It gives me much higher control over my behavior. Guess which system most people spend the majority of their time being in?

The PN. When you eat you are activating the PN and it puts your body in a state of “rest- and- digest”, which makes you mentally lazy and demotivated.–Just like a grazing cow.“I don’t have to do any heavy thinking, because I eat all day long, every day.”The 2- Day Fast will snap you out of this daze in a major way! You’ll be able to think MUCH more clearly.

The 2- Day Fast as a Way to Break out of Homeostasis. Fasting is a great way to practice your willpower because it involves an easily observable plateau, during which you’ll experience an initial hunger phase. This urge you’re feeling, which is telling you to eat, is triggered by your hormones–in order to keep you in homeostasis! Homeostasis is the biological process by which your brain and body: Strive to minimize stress and maintain balance,Avoid change and save energy and,Flee from discomfort and pain.

When you go without eating for 1. This feels uncomfortable at first, especially if you’re not used to doing it–and most people aren’t. They flee from the discomfort and “retreat to safety”, as an unconscious attempt to maintain homeostasis.–This is the #1 reason why most people fail with fasting. Since they don’t know about the process of homeostasis, when they try to change something in their lives–and it feels uncomfortable–they think it’s dangerous. And in doing so, you practice your brain, you develop discipline, and you increase your self- esteem. The 2- day fast is a great way to break out of homeostasis because you get feedback quickly.

And it’s very easy to see how your brain and body will try to fool you into quitting. It’s good practice because it’s so damn predictable. This hunger- plateau is hard to overcome for most people because they trust in the feedback from their brain and body too much. They trust their emotions too much–and now it’s telling them to eat quickly or something dangerous is going to happen (it’s not).

You must brace yourself for this oncoming barrage of negative emotions and strange voices in your head telling you to stop what you’re doing. These are the lies your brain and body tell you to keep you in homeostasis. And stop you from pushing your limits. Your brain is wired for saving energy and remaining comfortable.

When you do a 2- Day Fast you are breaking the usual rhythm–the homeostasis–that you are used to. The brain does not like this and will put up a fight.

However, the brain gives up the fight after a couple of hours, once you have broken through the hunger plateau, and your hormonal levels adapt. I experience the hunger plateau around 1. After 2. 1 hours, like clockwork, it stops and I get high. The 2- Day Fast as a Way to Get Naturally High. When you don’t eat for a while your ghrelin levels (ghrelin is a hunger hormone) will increase, and this gives your brain surges of dopamine (the neurotransmitter of pleasure and focus), which makes you more curious while improving your ability to learn things.–This makes reading or studying great activities to undertake while doing a 2- Day Fast.

I once sat and read a book about Napoleon for 2. I don’t think I’ve ever been as immersed in a book as I was then. Two things usually happen to me once I get through the hunger- plateau: #1: Most notably, I experience an increase in cognitive and introspective abilities somewhere around the 2.

This is accompanied by slight shivers as I slowly begin to get a bit colder. I also experience a tingling of energy in the back of my head.#2: Following this, I start getting into an incredibly deep state of focus. I can feel my brain flex. My brain is now in an activated state for many hours to come. It’s hard to describe it to someone who hasn’t experienced it. It’s like being curious about everything.

These sensations remain for a maximum of 4. I’ve also done longer fasts, but I don’t particularly like it. I get weak and moody from doing it. The 2- Day Fast is by far the most pleasant (and productive) fasting method, as it induces euphoria and increased focus. The 2- Day Fast as a Way to Get Ripped.

This one is a no- brainer. If you don’t eat for 4. I dropped from 7.

Day Fasts every Sunday through Tuesday. But then I stopped because it was too powerful, and I got scared–I didn’t want to lose more weight! I still use do 2- Day Fasts occasionally, but not because I want to lose weight. I might do it if I am busy and need to get things done. Or to practice breaking out of homeostasis to make sure my willpower stays strong.

How to Go on a 2- Day Fast: Depending on how strong your willpower is, it’s going to be more or less easy for you to do The 2- Day Fast. To make it easier you can: Drink plenty of water mixed with glutamine (the most common amino acid). I cannot recommend drinking glutamine on a daily basis strongly enough. Even if you’re not fasting.

I randomly found out–by experimenting–that glutamine makes longer periods of fasting much easier, without losing out on the beneficial effects.–Just make sure you don’t go over 5. Glutamine will not activate your digestive system, because it is absorbed in your intestines before making its way down to the gut. Glutamine is great for getting a healthier stomach and also for recovering from injuries or sicknesses. I used to have a nasty stomach disease–candida albicans–and my gut would swell up real big and get gassy.

Glutamine played a big part in curing that. To make the 2- day fast easier you can also: Drink coffee or tea however much you like.