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My favorite intermittent fasting hacks to help you lose weight.

But Dr. G, I can't do fasting like you do.

You know, I hear it all the time, but I'm here to tell you you can do intermittent fasting.

I'm today going to give you five insider hacks to help make fasting easy and actually enjoyable.

That means no hang greenness, no headaches, and all the benefits.

Okay, here we go.

First of all, you don't jump into the deep end of the pool for fasting.

I've told you over and over and over again, I've written about it in almost all of my books

that the vast majority of Americans cannot do time-restricted eating,

skipping one or two meals right off the bat because most Americans are insulin-resistant,

metabolically inflexible, and as much as you would think you could burn fat for fuel,

instead of sugar, quite frankly, you can't, and you will fall flat on your face,

and you will get a headache, you will get angry, you will get weak, and you will give up.

Don't do that. What you want to do is get in at the shallow end. Now, what do I mean by that?

Anybody can do this, and I'm going to hold your hand.

If you eat breakfast at seven o'clock every morning, next week, you're going to eat breakfast at

eight o'clock in the morning. Anybody can wait one hour from their regular time to start eating

breakfast. Do that all week. Take the weekend off. Enjoy yourself. Go back to whatever routine you

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