22 TIPS FOR GETTING THROUGH A FASTING DAY!|ALTERNATE DAY FASTING| Tips for beginners getting started
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ค. 2024
- Hello! Today I’m sharing 22 tips for getting through a fasting day, things that I’ve learned in my time fasting. Feel free to share anything you’ve found helpful!
Products mentioned in this video(affiliate links):
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Videos mentioned:
My video on favorite fasting podcasts: • ALTERNATE DAY FASTING ...
Video of Dr. Mindy on what happens in your body while fasting: • Fasting (Hour-By-Hour ...
Current Favorite fasting TH-cam channels:
Dr. Mindy Pelz: / @drmindypelz
Dr. Jason Fung: / drjasonfung
Six Miles to Supper: / @sixmilestosupper
Alife2Dai4 (does a plant based vegan diet and ADF and lives in Hawaii): / hcgprinsessdai
Fasting Panda (does keto and lives in Switzerland): / @thefastingpanda
Laura Hirth (currently not active on TH-cam but has a lot of past vlogs that will be helpful): / notanothercovergirl9
The Alternate Day Faster(also not active on youtube but documented his first year with ADF): / @alternatedayfaster8310
Delay Don’t Deny Intermittent Fasting support group: m. profile.php?id...
My Instagram: / momfasting
Life fasting app: lifeapps.io/apps/life-fasting...
Favorite fasting books (Amazon affiliate links):
Absolute Favorite! 👉🏻Fast. Feast. Repeat. by Gin Stephens: amzn.to/2M5ZMsR
Delay Don’t Deny by Gin Stephens: amzn.to/34KM6d8
The Obesity Code by Jason Fung: amzn.to/3nQt4cV
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*I’m not a medical professional, these are just my opinions and experiences.
* this is a positive community, any mean-spirited or crude comments will be deleted.
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I was so happy when you mentioned prayer, my reason for starting this journey was mainly for God not just weightloss.
That’s amazing. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I also was happy when i heard about prayer :) thank you for your videos.
You’re so welcome 😊
Thank you for all the great tips ♥️
You’re so welcome 😊
I needed this list and it is perfect. Thank you!
You’re welcome 😊😊
Wow these are amazing points mentioned!
Thank you, I’m glad if it helped!😊
Great tips!
This is such a good and helpful video. Thank you
You’re so welcome!
Hi. Thank you so much for this. It is extremely helpful. I actually wrote down your points down in my journal. Thank you again:)
I’m so happy it helped! 😊
Absolutely great information. Just beginning to adf and feel a lot more prepared now. Thank you so much.
So happy to hear! Best of luck!
Thanks a lot! Super useful and motivating. 😊🌸❤️
You’re so welcome 😉
Wow! What a great video. I’m on day one and came for some motivation. I certainly found it. ☺️ Thank you.
That makes me so happy, best of luck! You can do it. 🙌🏼😊
These tips are awesome, never seen it spelt out this way- your experience shines! Keep it up and may you remain happy and healthy!
Thank you so much, that means a lot, and same to you! 😁
Great tips! And very motivational. I downloaded the app and started now. Thank you
That’s great, best of luck! 🙌🏼😊
This video was filled with practical tips. Thank you!
You’re so welcome! 😊
Thank you, these are really helpful tips. I'm kind of a beginner in this process. Thank you for sharing your profound experience!
You’re so welcome. 😊😊
Thank you for the tips 😊
No worries!
Those were all amazing tips I really don’t think you didn’t miss any!!!! I love the tip about “just not now” because it’s so true we’re not depriving ourselves of what we want and instead we’re just delaying it and it gives you so much power and control over what you can control that feels really good to be able to just wait until the next day to eat it I love that part of ADF 💪🏻🙌🏻🔥 this was a great video hun!
Thanks Dai! So true! 🙌🏼
Thank you for the amazing tips. This will be the 2nd time I try to do ADF, but I feel this time I’ll make it 🙆🏽♀️💕
That’s awesome, you can do it!! Thank you for watching. 😊
Choose your hard! I love that and all the other tips. Thanks Lexi !
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Love your videos... these tips are definitely helping on my first day of adf
Aw good I’m so glad! Thank you 😊
Thanks so much! This was super helpful. Another thing that helps me is when I’m having a hard fasting day, I follow Gin Stephen’s’ advice from Fast, Feast, Repeat and tell myself I deserve to be healthy. I love your “choose your hard” too. The old way made me feel awful, so it was hard that way. So now I’ll try reminding myself that this is the hard that I’ve chosen. Have a great day! 😀
I love that! We definitely deserve to be healthy. 😊 Thank you!
Awesome tips. My favorites were to embrace the smells and that we can do hard things. Thanks!
I’m so glad you found it helpful, thanks for watching!
Thank you for sharing. It's the perfect timing I was having a hard fasting day.
I’m so glad it helped. 😊you’ve got this! 🙌🏼
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Well the algorythm has brought me here. I love this! Of course I had to subscribe! Awesome.I have found much spiritual growth while fasting. Especially on fasts longer than 3 days. My body loves fasting I can feel it relax once it understands we are fasting.
That’s awesome, so cool that you are in tune with your body! Welcome. 😊
OMGOSH!! This was so helpful!! New Sub!!
I’m so glad! 😊
I use Zero for my fasting app. I love it! This is my 2nd week doing Alternate Day 36 hour fasts. I do a modified fasting day and allow up to 500 calories. Yet, I focus mainly on fats.
That’s awesome! Thanks for sharing. 😀
Me too I use zero
These are great tips! Since I naturally end up with more time I reserve dinner or lunchtime for bubble baths, reading a good book, and a long relaxing yoga or stretch routine.
That’s awesome! Feeding your soul!
Excellent i like the tips very much
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Great vid thanks
You’re welcome! 😊
Thank you for this! I’m on day 1 and starting with OMAD, and will slowly ease into ADF. I’m so excited to watch all of your videos! They are very motivating. I’ve done months of 16:8 before but it stopped working. I think it was too big of a feeding window but just limiting enough to make me crave and think about food all the time. I’ve almost done my first 20 hour fast and I could probably go longer- I’m barely hungry and have had so much energy and mental clarity today!
That’s awesome Amy! I’m sure you’ll do great after having so much experience already! Thanks for watching 😊😊
You are a wise young lady. Thank you for inspiring this 68-year-old in Cape Town.
Aw thank you so much, that means a lot! And go you! 🥳😊
Thanks Lexi. Even tho ive been doing IF & prolonged and intermittent I lose my inspiration some days. Thanks for reminders. I like the journal and to remember why I fast to feel good and its so beneficial for our minds and health. Hot water yes is so good with lemon it mimics greek lemon soup lol! Baking soda with hot water is very soothing. Thanks again for the tips to make it through like a fasting pro!
You’re so welcome, do you do the baking soda for heartburn or some other reason? How is the taste?
Thanks for the tips. Going to download the fasting app now. Have a good day.
Awesome! You have a good day too! 😊
I use the other app she mentioned and i really like that one. Both are good so see what works best for u. But you’ll like to keep one because like she said it’s awesome that it keeps your data since the beginning so changing in the middle wouldn’t work.
Thanks again.
Thank you! Blessings
You’re welcome! Thank you 😊 🙏🏻
You inspired me to do ADF for a month! It’s the end of March, so I’m going to do April 2021. 😁
That’s great! I’m so glad it’s working for you! 😊👏🏼
Thanks for mentioning life’s fasting app
You’re welcome ☺️
The segment tip is very helpful
I’m so glad!
Wow! What a great list. You are a very generous person to put all of these tips together for strangers. I feel your strength as you realistically share your experiences. This is my 3rd week and I am learning all I can from you and your channel. Thanks for being willing to share.
You are more than welcome, and thank you for the kind comment! And congrats on making it to week 3, it should get much easier from here!
She is the BEST!!!! Yay for sticking to it for 3 weeks. I’m on my 2nd 100 day round and i love this lifestyle and has helped me loose weight and honestly have a better relationship w food which is weird since we don’t eat 1/2 the time hehe!
Thank you!❤️
No problem!
Hello Mom Fasting, oh my, your tips are amazing, i started the ADF last week of March, now am on third week, i feel good and amazing,and my weight loss doing well little by little ,,,thank you, lourine from Kenya
Congratulations! That’s great, and I’m so happy the tips helped! 🙌🏼
Never even considered an app for tracking fasting. Thank you!
Sure!
Amazing pointers! So well thought out, thank you 🙏 I just did my first alternate day fast yesterday and I can see this being a long-term way of living. I was already pretty much doing omad Anyway.
we moved to the country the last four months and I don’t get home until nine or 10 at night and then I was eating at that time. I started gaining weight around the middle so I think this way of eating will help and I plan to do meal prep for my eat days on the fast days. Wish me luck!
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An amazing tip i have is On day 1 make a VLOG to yourself. Explain to yourself why you are doing this, how you feel, motivate yourself, self vlog motivation is amazing.. Look directly into your lense while speaking directly to yourself. Its a tool that helped me!
That’s awesome, thanks for sharing 😁
Love the bridge picture in your intro. I think I have been to that place ;-D
Yes you have! 🤩
Good ideas
Thank you!
I loooove this. Very helpful!! I can’t do recipes though. It would drive me bonkers. 😉
Haha you never use recipes? Just throw things together?
@@MomFasting I love new stuff but to see food while fasting makes me feel closer to giving in. You have inspired me. I’m fasting today. I will do Monday Wednesday and Friday again. I’ve been stalled a year. Happened after starting weights. 50 and 5’3. From 206 to 158.
@@louferguson7048 ohh I see what you’re saying! Yep, I love looking at food and smelling it when I’m fasting! But I get that! 😁 And wow, almost 50 lbs down! That is amazing and you must feel so much better! Best of luck, you can do it! One day at a time. 🙌🏼
Happiest Anniversary!!!!
Thank you Michelle 🙏🏻☺️
Today is my first day. I wanted to postpone it to May bit I thought right now today is the best time to start. Loved all your tips. I've also decided to take a break from IG and FB for about a month to 3 months. Especially the first month of May so I can just get into a routine and let have these cooling videos get me off track. 🤭
What a great idea! I hope all goes well. 😊
So glad I found your channel. This is exactly what I am looking for. I had lost 70 pounds doing IF, using OMAD, but then I failed maintenance. I started overeating and extending my window and gained back about 25 lbs. I’ve tried to lose it again with OMAD, but the weight is just not coming off the way it did the first time. So I am trying ADF. I don’t feel comfortable at this weight, and really want to get the weight off. The tips for sticking to the regimen are what I really need to hear. Thanks very much.
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Thanks for the great video. What helps me doing ADF is water. When I feel hungry, I drink about 8 oz. of water. It helps immediately because it's just something entering my stomach. Within a few minutes of drinking the water, I've forgotten about the hunger. It completely goes away. I usually drink cold water too. That sort of shocks my stomach. Thanks again.
Yeah totally! I agree, sometimes you hurt want that full feeling. Thanks for watching!
ADF is awesome and it makes it easier at work because I'm not thinking about food
That’s awesome!
Great video ! Thank you ! I have always enjoyed cooking for others when I’m restricting 🥘. It’s kinda like eating through your nose 😂
Haha yes exactly!! That’s a perfect way to describe it 😊
Redmond Real Salt is amazing for fasting days!
Good tip!
Not a lot of people understand when you fast. Watching/listening to you was a warm comforting reassurance that it is OK to walk through the struggles of fasting. Support you hope for in a caring, true friend. Very kind of you to "come along side" and cheer us on.
Thank you, you’re right, it can be hard when people don’t understand! There’s so many great resources out there though. Have you ever listened to the intermittent fasting stories podcast with gin Stephens? I find them so inspiring and uplifting 😊
@@MomFasting Not yet. Thanks for the recommendation. Thanks for the reply.
@@ohhiguy sure! Have a great week 😊
Hi Lexi! You look so pretty in the vlog this week, the blouse really brings out the blue in your eyes! I still remember the first full day I fasted, I practically announced to my husband and daughter that I’m not here today and spent the whole day reading in bed 🤪. Obviously I couldn’t do that every subsequent fast day. I really like that phrase “choose your hard”. You’ve pretty much covered everything I do but I’ll expand on a few of yours that worked for me:
1) space out your salt intake. I found it really helped to take it every 3hrs or so to prevent getting the headache or other electrolytes imbalance symptoms. Even by doing this, I’m not able to get rid of my brain fog but it does reduce it.
2) take a bath or drink hot water are especially helpful when you feel cold from fasting.
3) try what you drink your water out of if you struggle to drink enough water. I have this odd thing that I find I’ll drink more water from a bottle or a narrow flask with small mouth piece/hole. I don’t know why but I really don’t like drinking plain water out of a glass or mug and found this really helped.
4) when I really struggle in the evening, I would take an earlier shower and go to bed early and just lie there listening to podcast or watch my fav fasting videos. This is my way of taking care of myself.
5) save your favourite drink for the hours you struggle most. For me, that’s usually around 5-6pm, so I would drink my sparkling water then.
By the way, I did a 5:2 this week (fasted Monday and Wednesday), Monday wasn’t hard but yesterday was, all the brain fog and light headed struggles came back, even when I did the modified fast yesterday, so that was interesting. I’ll do 19:5 for Friday and Saturday to finish up this week’s fasts. Still trying to find the combination that makes my body feel good. I’ll do this pattern again next week or at least do a meal-less Monday if I don’t feel up to 5:2. I really envy people who say they have a ton of energy on fast days, because this week reminded me of how much I like the up down day of ADF, but I don’t like how unwell I felt on the second fast day. I feel like the mind says YES whilst the body says NO 😅 do you usually feel quite well on your fast days?
Thank you Patricia! And haha I love the story of your first fast day, and that’s a great way to do it if you can swing it. I remember my first fast day was a Wednesday, so my husband was at work and it actually helped me because I didn’t have to have him asking me questions about how I was feeling because I may not have been nice. 😅 I love all your tips! Thank you for sharing. And as far as how I feel on fasting days, I do have those days when I’m feeling unwell, I feel like it’s my body reacting to the toxicity that it’s trying to get rid of. But generally I feel ok, it’s just the afternoon when I get sluggish, then by about 4-5 I get a boost of energy and also I’m excited about eating the next day! Sounds like a mealless Monday might be perfect for you, then a up day Tuesday and 19:5 the rest? I love how you’re experimenting though, and I look forward to seeing what you settle on!
@@MomFasting haha, there are definitely moments when I wish I live alone when fasting. That’s a good way to think about when you feel unwell while fasting. How interesting we’re all different, I normally get a boost of energy after 9pm and the toughest times are between 3-9pm. I’ll let you know what I settle on for sure. Have a good week! 🤗
@@patriciawai4791 totally! What time do you usually start/end fasts on full fast days?
@@MomFasting normally end my eat day by 8pm and break my fast after 36hrs
@@patriciawai4791 maybe that’s why our harder hours differ, I usually start fasting at about 4-5 pm, so I think it tends to get easier around the 24-25 hr Mark. 👍🏻
I bought the Trace brand of electrolyte powder with stevia from Dr Berg
I’ve seen that one! Just fyi, you can buy the separate ingredients much cheaper, but if you feel like it helps an is convenient, that’s great! Usually I feel like a little bit of salt is all I need.
I WAS using Fastic and loved it but then they changed it🤬. Now I use Zero, love it so far!!!
Nice!!
Ur skin is awesome.. do you drink collagen ?
Thank you! I have in the past, but I don’t really, I’m actually super low maintenance haha. Just use some inexpensive moisturizer!
As a child I sold Girl Scout cookies door to door. One neighbor would buy them every year even though she was diabetic and couldn't eat them. She told me she just loved to smell them 😊
That’s so funny! Just goes to show how delicious smells can be.😉
My new mantra, I Can Do Hard Things!
Yes! 👏🏼💪
Hi there. Can you please break down the ADF 4:3 you do so I can understand exactly how to schedule that? I am omad now ( fairly new to this lifestyle a few months), but would like to do something different to help me realize this actually works and I will eventually get healthy again.
Basically you fast for a whole day, 3x a week on alternating days. So it could be Monday, Wednesday, Friday or Tuesday, Thursday. Saturday. Or some other combination. Water or black coffee only on fasting days. Eating days could be whatever you want, however long, minimum of 2 meals and 6 hours but it is very flexible and simple. Not necessarily easy, but simple. Best of luck to you. ❤️
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Do flavored sparkling waters (like La croix) affect or break your fast?
Some people don’t believe so, others do. It may be totally individual. But the theory is that it triggers an insulin response. Many people, including myself, find it easier to go without anything flavored.
I’m using “Simple” App and it’s good. It tracks liquids, activity, food, hunger and weight. With some advice on proper eating and fasting.
Nice, I’ve never heard of that one 😁
You made me realize I have a muffin in the freezer lol 😆 I forgot about that 😅 🤣 😂
🤣that cracks me up!!
To me it’s not a diet it’s lifestyle choice
Couldn’t agree more!
I love drinking HOT WATER....LOVE LEMON IN HOT WATER..
Yeah, lots of people like that one! Thanks Patricia. 😁
When I struggle, I offer it up to someone who needs prayers especially Ukraine
That’s so good. 🙏🏻
So Thomas De Laur says stevia doesn't brake a fast
Yep. A lot of people do, but there’s this thing called the cephalic phase insulin response, where your body releases insulin in response to sweet tastes and flavors, just because it believes that food is coming. It seems to vary from person to person, but I’ve literally heard from 100s of people who say when they cut it and all flavors/ creams out of the fast, it makes their fast drastically easier. 😁
I just started my first alternate day fast. My goal is to do this for 2 weeks. How long should eating window be ?
Hi Carmen! Funny, I just did a video about this! HOW LONG SHOULD YOUR EATING WINDOW BE?|ALTERNATE DAY FASTING TIPS
th-cam.com/video/qpqvM2r0jjc/w-d-xo.html
But the short answer is--6-12 hours is good to shoot for and about 2-3 meals. You want to definitely refuel well to go into the next fast. You’ll do great!
@@MomFasting Thanks so much. Are there apps to track eating window ?
@@MomFasting I think zero does eating window but you have to pay. I may pay for it. it would be helpful.
@@carmencatalina9086 yep! I like the window app. They’ll try to get you to upgrade to a paid version but just keep saying no, the free version is great. 😁
Hey
I am about to start my ADF from tomorrow
Are you open for any form of collaboration??
Hey, good luck! I don’t think so at this time, but I wish you all the best!
@@MomFasting thank you so much
B12 is better on an empty stomach.
Good to know 👍🏻
Stevia doesn’t raise insulin, it’s safe for diabetics. Did you mean to say something else?
Hey! So because of the cephalic phase insulin response, sometimes the body will release insulin based on a sweet taste, because the body believes it has carbs coming, and responds accordingly. It seems to vary from person to person and probably based on how much you’re having. But because of this possibility, it is best to avoid it during a fast to optimize your results. 😊 Many people report once they cut out any type of sweetener in their fasting window, fasting becomes so much easier.
@@MomFasting ah, I need to test my blood sugar after having it to see if I’m getting that response!
Yeah, and it may not even register on a BG reading, but if you get hungry afterwards, that’s a sign
Heya....are you LDS? Are you in Utah? Can we be friends in real life?! Haha
Haha I am! And that would be cool, but I am currently in Nevada and moving to Boise area soon! So you know, kinda dodging the whole Utah thing. 😂 But I have lots of family there, so you never know when we may run into each other!