What Is the Metabolic Switch? How It Helps You Burn Fat and Lose Weight
Here’s a sobering fact: Most adults consume calories for more than 15 hours every day. In this constantly fed state, your body burns more carbohydrates than fat, which causes its natural ability…
Planning Your Intermittent-Fasting Morning Workout
Morning workouts are popular and for good reason. Aside from the large availability of a.m. workout classes and compatibility with a typical workday, a morning workout — particularly a fasted morning workout…
Your Guide to Intermittent-Fasting Macros
It’s no secret that the typical American diet is prone to excessive amounts of unhealthy fats, sugars, and processed foods, while lacking in essential nutrients like fiber, protein, vitamins, and minerals. This…
Why You Want to Burn Fat, Not Glucose, to Lose Weight
Everyone is born with the innate ability to shift between burning carbs and fat for energy. This “metabolic switching” has kept humans lean and energetic for millennia, without the need for intentional…
Is It Necessary to Reach Ketosis to Lose Weight?
The ketogenic diet is one of the most popular diets in the world. In recent years, it has topped the charts as one of the most often-Googled diets. Fans of the keto…
Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Fat Burning
Your body wants to burn fat. When you’re regularly burning fat for energy, your body reacts in all sorts of ways that help you avoid metabolic disease, like maintaining a healthy weight,…
What Can You Drink During Intermittent Fasting?
Intermittent fasting means not eating food… but what about beverages? While some are off limits, there’s a wider variety of options you can — and probably should — consider. What Is the…
How to Maximize Weight Loss and Fat Burning During Your Fast
Every year, roughly half of U.S. adults over the age of twenty try to lose weight. So if that’s one of your health goals, you’re not alone. Intermittent fasting can be a…
The Pros and Cons of Intermittent Fasting: Is It Effective?
Intermittent fasting is a popular eating pattern that has garnered a lot of attention over the last several years. Is this meteoric rise in popularity warranted? Does intermittent fasting even work? Let’s…
Fast Breakers 101: What Makes a “Good” Post-Fast Meal?
The focus of intermittent fasting is largely on when you eat, not what you eat — a principle that makes fasting both incredibly simple and extremely effective for weight management, glucose control,…
What Should You Eat Before a Fast? How to Build the Perfect Fast Starter
For most people, fasting is an excellent tool to improve metabolic health, burn fat, and lose weight; simply fasting for 12–18 hours each day can help you achieve these results. However, if…
The Hunger-Fullness Scale: What It Is and How to Use It
You’ve almost certainly felt it: that gurgling-stomach, headache-y desperation to eat anything in sight. You’ve probably also sat back and groaned “I’m stuffed” after one too many second helpings, too. Those sensations…
