No Willpower to Start Intermittent Fasting?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 10 August 2021
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
If you don't think you have enough willpower to start fasting, don't give up! Here's what you need to know.
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Fasting is an exercise for willpower. Willpower is the ability to control your thoughts and actions in order to do what you want. It's the power of self-control. It's your personal power to overcome things like temptations, addictions, and cravings.
Willpower helps you stick to something, but it's like a muscle that needs to be developed and strengthened. You can do this through intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting is basically a workout to improve your willpower.
Some people don't think they have the willpower to do fasting. But, fasting increases your willpower to do more fasting. If you get started, it will get easier and easier.
Fasting removes barriers that keep people from doing fasting in the first place, such as:
• Hunger
• Cravings
• Bad habits
Tips to help with fasting and enhance your willpower:
1. Start doing intermittent fasting (skip breakfast and don't consume snacks) without keto
2. Add MCT oil
3. Start Healthy Keto
4. Find keto-friendly replacements for your favorite foods
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| 0:00.0 | 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 weights. |
| 0:27.4 | You know, you need to look at fasting as an exercise for your willpower. |
| 0:34.7 | What is willpower? Willpower is the ability to control your thoughts and your actions to do what you want. It's like the power of self-control. It's your personal power. To overcome |
| 0:39.4 | things like temptations, cravings, addictions, your willpower helps you stick to something. But it's |
| 0:47.2 | kind of like a muscle that needs to be developed and strengthened. And you can do this through |
| 0:52.6 | intermittent fasting. So really when you do |
| 0:55.2 | intermittent fasting, it's an exercise or a workout to improve your willpower. Your ability to stick |
| 1:03.0 | to something. Now some people will say, well, I don't have the willpower to do intermittent fasting. |
| 1:08.6 | But fasting increases your ability to do more fasting. |
| 1:11.6 | So really you just need to do it and get started and then it'll get easier and easier and easier. |
| 1:17.6 | Why? Because it removes the barriers to do fasting in the first place. |
| 1:21.6 | It gets rid of your hunger, it gets rid of your cravings, bad habits, because it's a training exercise. |
| 1:28.4 | Just like when I was in the army, I had to go through a series of training exercises that |
| 1:32.2 | improved my discipline and my willpower. |
| 1:35.2 | Same thing with wrestling and playing the guitar. |
| 1:37.4 | So you go through a series of exercises to build up a new ability. |
| 1:42.4 | And then the only barrier probably would be left would be your love for food. |
| 1:46.9 | And I can't help you with that one. But there are some things that you can do if you're new to my |
| 1:51.3 | channel to start with, to start to get into intermittent fasting so you can greatly enhance |
| 1:57.0 | your willpower. Number one, start intermittent fasting without keto. So pretty much just eat what |
| 2:03.4 | you normally eat, but just add in fasting, okay? Skip your breakfast. So that way you have two meals, |
| 2:10.5 | no snacking. You can add MCT oil, which is a fat that will greatly help your ability to fast. There's something called the |
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