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Fasting For Life

Ep. 167 - Low Calorie or Cyclical very Low Calorie: which is better for Fat Loss & improving HbA1c? | How Fast is too Fast to Lose Weight? | Free Intermittent Fasting Plan

Fasting For Life

Scott Watier

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In today’s timely episode, Dr. Scott and Tommy discuss how fast is too fast to lose weight, how many calories should you eat & should you restrict natural carbohydrates for optimal fat loss, transition to weight maintenance mode & long-term habits, and much more.   Show Transcript: www.thefastingforlife.com/blog   FREE RESOURCE - DOWNLOAD THE NEW BLUEPRINT TO FASTING FOR FATLOSS! Learn how to RAMP UP into longer fasting windows! Gain insights into the non-weight loss benefits of fasting! Personalize your own fasting schedule and consistent FAT LOSS results! Get answers to what breaks a fast, how to break a fast, and tips and tricks to accelerate your fasting wins!   Get your FREE BOX OF LMNT hydration support for the perfect electrolyte balance for your fasting lifestyle with your first purchase here! Nutrisense CGM LINK to Discount Get $30 off and one month free dietician support with the PROMO CODE “FASTINGFORLIFE”  www.nutrisense.io/fastingforlife   Let’s continue the conversation. Click the link below to JOIN the Fasting For Life Community, a group of like-minded, new and experienced fasters! The first two rules of fasting need not apply! Fasting For Life Community - Join HERE   New to the podcast and wondering where to start? Head to the website and download our FREE Fast Start Guide, 6 simple steps to put One Meal a Day Fasting (OMAD) into practice!   If you enjoy the podcast, would you please tap on the stars below and consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it helps bring you the best original content each week. We also enjoy reading them   Research Reference Links: https://academic.oup.com/jcem/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1210/clinem/dgac661/6888005?login=false

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Dr. Scott Watier.

0:03.4

And I'm Tommy Welling, and you're listening to the fasting for life podcast.

0:07.1

This podcast is about using fasting as a tool to regain your health,

0:11.9

achieve ultimate wellness, and live the life you truly

0:14.4

deserve.

0:15.8

Each episode is a short conversation on a single topic with immediate actionable steps.

0:20.6

We cover everything from fat loss and health and wellness to the science of lifestyle design.

0:25.0

We started fasting for life because of how fasting has transformed our lives and we hope to share the tools that we have learned along the way. Hey everyone welcome to the fasting for life podcast my name is Dr. Scott Waddier and I'm here as always I'm a good friend and colleague Tommy Welling good afternoon to you sir

0:48.1

Hey Scott how are you doing fantastic my friend Fun conversation coming your way today about intermittent calorie restricted diet and the effects on type 2 diabetes remission and not just a short-term study but something that looks at the

1:07.2

individuals 12 months down the road and some really cool insights that we can

1:11.1

garner from it so I'm excited to dive into that article. It's a heavy one, but there's going to be some really cool things that we can talk about. So we're going to nerd out just a little bit, but before we do that, want to welcome in all of you new

1:23.7

listeners to the fasting for life podcast we are so happy that you're giving us an

1:28.2

opportunity to join you on your fasting journey and turning fasting into the solution and the lifestyle that we all were or are still looking forward in terms of our health and our weight loss goals.

1:41.0

So, you want to learn more about Tommy and I head back to episode one. I think it's like 20 or 25 minutes long. You can hear more about why we started this podcast, why we have the programs we have now and how fasting has absolutely transformed our lives

1:54.3

and giving us our lives back. So shout out to the long-term listeners as well. We still love and

2:01.0

appreciate all of those five star reviews.

2:04.0

Tommy, you got one you want to shout out this morning, I believe.

2:08.0

They're just incredible.

2:10.0

We, we, there's nothing better than when we started this thing a few years ago and don't

2:15.0

worry I'll keep the self-aggrandizing portion of today's episode extremely short and it was like

2:19.7

man this really worked for us let's tell some people about it and here we are, you know, going on 160 something episodes later and the momentum just keeps growing.

2:30.4

So every time we get not just a, hey you guys are great, rah r great rah. That's not what I'm talking about right that's not what we need those are cool. Yeah those are cool but it's the it's the ones where we hear part of the story too. We're like I did this and it worked and holy moly. So Tommy you got a shout out here real quick.

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