The Benefits Of Intermittent Dry Fasting

The Benefits Of Intermittent Dry Fasting

You will experience impacts on your cognitive system, digestive, and food processing.

Then you will have more time because three meals in a day take time, in preparation and during the meal. Intermittent dry fasting helps to gain muscle mass. Making a single meal is particularly good for gourmets like me. This teaches us to better understand the role of each food and what its effect is on our health, our body mainly at the start of digestion.

This brings us to the fact of indulging in the foods that we are going to eat. Suddenly another advantage is the elimination of snacking and excess sugar. The last advantage that I will discuss later in this article is the savings that this allows.

Why these are benefits during intermittent dry fasting

Why is it difficult 1 meal a day?

You can manage to go from three meals a day to a meal like this on a whim. The first day it can work, the second day maybe. But unless you are damn motivated the third day will be particularly tough. In addition, the body is not prepared. You may have complications.

So you will need to practice to get there without too much effort. You have to learn and go through each step quietly to get there.

And then we must not forget that doing it every day is still something restrictive and stressful. I don’t recommend doing it 7 days a week.

So the big constraint is that it takes practice. Kind of like deciding to go for a 42 km marathon when you’ve never run. In this case, you will need to train for at least 6 months to run several times a week by increasing the distances and running times.

Personally, I do an intermittent dry fast on 23/1, 2 to 3 times a week for the many advantages that I will explain to you below.

What will intermittent dry fasting in 23/1 do for you?

Three health benefits: cognitive, digestive, and assimilation side.

Cognitively

you are going to have an easy time remembering things. Your reasoning will be more relevant. You generally feel that you perform better. So I think that being on a fast, the body makes a different fuel which is ketone bodies. Because we are in ketosis.

Ketones don’t take any transformational effort from your body. It is only the liver that will use your fat to make them, so it takes little effort from your body which makes it easier to focus on your brain.

So you have to know that for some people do not feel any difference and then others like me for whom the difference is very important.

The digestive part

Digestively, your stomach has to make a very corrosive acid that helps digestion. This acid is very harmful, including for your stomach, which will have to regenerate for the next digestion. 

So the fact of having three meals in a day leaves him little time for this regeneration since each digestion takes several hours. And then it consumes a lot of energy during this period of time you will have less energy for other things.

At the same time, when we have a meal mainly in the evening. Your stomach can regenerate quietly while you sleep.

Food assimilation

The absorption of food by the intestines can take up to 24 hours. When we eat often, the intestines are constantly working which can lead to increasingly partial assimilation of macros and micro-nutrients.

 What can be the welcome to allow the intestines to take a break so that they can then increase their percentage of assimilation? Suddenly you will receive more micronutrients since your body will be able to assimilate more, so you will have more energy.

Muscle mass gain by doing intermittent dry fasting in 23/1

When I say that intermittent dry fasting helps you gain muscle mass, I am often told that I am saying anything. It is true that it seems unnatural.

But imagine that if you eat something, your body will work to digest and if in addition to you start to play sports, your body should also give energy for your moment of sport. The body will therefore have to provide more energy for two different things. 

It does not work. The performance will be average for these two requests. It is often in this situation that you find yourself having a stomach ache because you have put too much strain on the sport. So when you exercise and haven’t eaten before, your body can put all the strain on your athletic performance.

In addition, you will have an additional benefit after 16 or 18 hours of fasting. Your body will help you in your sports performance because instinctively it will start to secrete adrenaline and growth hormone, which will considerably help you in your performance and in the rebuilding of body tissues.

It is the body’s reflex that helps the mind to get food, to help go hunting since the body has not had food for some time.

Why intermittent 23/1 dry fasting is fun

Pleasure is essential to be able to flourish in your weight loss, in your health.

Knowing that in intermittent dry fasting you only take one meal during the day. If you have organized a party on Saturday for example. You are planning to see friends who you like to have a good time with. You have planned for yourself “good food” and the fact of not having eaten during the day will allow you to indulge yourself without watching or controlling what you are going to eat.

 So no guilt about eating what you want since you haven’t eaten all day and even if you eat really a lot. You can only have one meal on Sunday as well. In other words, your Saturday night party, even if you eat the equivalent of 4 meals and well you will only see “fire” on the scale.

Why it’s good to have a food order

When you have a meal during the day, it is true that there is a dietary constraint. You have to start with raw vegetables (so of course you started to rehydrate 1 or 2 hours before the meal). Then cooked vegetables, legumes, then proteins (meat and cheese). Then if you are still hungry, eat starchy foods (pasta, bread, rice, and anything sweet, etc.).

So the advantage of doing this, over time you learn to eat well. This allows you to question your diet, to learn to see what you need to eat. To find out what our body needs to eat in order to have more energy. To understand his bulimia, his snacking, or his non-stop need for sugar!

Why are we saving in 23/1

It’s simple, the fact of eating only one meal in a day, even if you do not do it every day, in the end, you still go from 21 meals to 14 in a week if you are in 16/8 and if you add 2 or 3 days of dry fasting in 23/1 you can go up to 10 meals per week.

Why intermittent dry fasting in 23/1 allows you to better manage your snacking

This is especially helpful for people who snack all day. So why and well simply because when you do a 23/1, there is still a 23 hour fasting period and during this period you can no longer eat at the risk of breaking your fast. 

You are therefore forced to stop snacking, which once again allows you to look yourself in the face and understand this need for snacking. So you will turn to other solutions to replace it during the day. I call it the Back to the Wall Method.

How to do an intermittent dry fast in 23/1

So already it is important not to do it every day. Because it puts your body in stress, in endos-stress also called Eustress. regularly (1 to 3 times a week).

You will have to go through several steps.

First stage,

It is already knowing how to do intermittent water fast in 16/8 without difficulty or without effort. This already requires an apprenticeship. This will then allow you to start testing 16/8 Intermittent Dry Fasting.

Second step,

It will be to be able to do an intermittent dry fast in 16/8 that is to say to remove water for 16 hours without requiring the slightest effort. And from time to time do intermittent water fast in 23/1.

Third step,

It’s going to be to do intermittent 23/1 water fasts at least 1 to 3 per week while you do intermittent 16/8 dry fasting.

The last step,

It will therefore consist of successfully completing an intermittent 23/1 dry fast during your 16/8 intermittent dry fasting period.

From the moment you have successfully completed this step. It’s good to repeat the experience several times before putting it into a routine, to give yourself time to tame it. Do it when you feel capable when you want to at the risk of dripping with it and not succeeding in adapting your life and functioning there to improve your health.

Once you have adopted intermittent dry fasting in 23/1, you will be able to put it in a routine over a week or over 15 days in Or even every month.

It’s important to understand that if you’ve decided to do an intermittent 23/1 dry fast and after 18 hours it’s too hard, that’s okay. Drink water, next time you will be successful. The fact of having tried brings you closer to your success and I repeat it is important to respect yourself, to respect your body and your limits. With each test, it gets easier and easier!

The most important thing is to try rather than not dare.