How Often Should You Do Intermittent Fasting?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 24 February 2020
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Today, we’re going to talk about intermittent fasting. How often should you do intermittent fasting?
There are a few different intermittent fasting schedules you can follow:
- 5:2
- Every other day
The best fasting schedules:
- 16:8
- 20:4
- OMAD
My intermittent fasting guide:
• Start out with 3 meals a day with no snacking (add fat to the meal)
• Next, don’t eat unless you’re hungry (go as long as you can without eating)
• Slowly let your body adapt to 2 meals and then 1 meal a day
• Let your body tell you when to eat, adding fat when necessary
• Make sure you’re getting the nutrients you need
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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting |
| 0:05.3 | keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product, |
| 0:10.6 | call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 540-299-1557. That's 540-299-1557. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. |
| 0:45.4 | Had a recent question. |
| 0:48.6 | How often should you do in a minute fasting? |
| 0:51.7 | Well, good question, and there's several ways to do it. |
| 0:53.8 | And let's just kind of go through the different ways. |
| 0:55.8 | You have something called the five and two, |
| 0:58.4 | which actually I do not like it all. |
| 1:01.3 | Five days of the week, you pretty much eat what you want. |
| 1:04.9 | And then for two days, maybe it's going to be on the weekend. |
| 1:08.9 | You do a version of intermittent fasting, |
| 1:10.2 | which is not intermittent fasting. |
| 1:11.4 | It's basically you reduce your calories down to 500 calories per day. |
| 1:14.8 | So that's kind of mimicking fasting. |
| 1:18.3 | So here's the problem. |
| 1:20.2 | It takes three to five days to adapt to ketosis. |
| 1:24.9 | So if you're going to eat what you want for five days, and then for two days, |
| 1:29.4 | go down the 500 calories, you're going to be so hungry and craving. I mean, what are you trying |
| 1:35.8 | to achieve? If you're trying to do weight loss, you're going to spike insulin on these days, |
| 1:40.3 | and this is going to be so insignificant. So I do not recommend the five and two. |
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