Health is a skill…
To be good at health you have to practice…
The fat burning challenge is one of the most important skills you will practice because it will allow you to do things most people won’t be able to do that will greatly improve your gut health…
People ask me all the time how I restructured my gut flora and improved my microbiome…
They want to know how I removed parasites from my gut and grew probiotics…
The answer is that I used fasting as a tool…
Your ability to fast depends on your ability to burn fat as a source of energy…
This ability isn’t something genetic… it isn’t something you can just pick up one day and do…
The ability to burn fat as a source of energy is a skill that you must train for and improve…
That’s what the fat burning challenge is about… it’s to get you started on this training routine…
What is the fat burning challenge
It’s a progression that gradually increases the amount of time you spend in a fasted state…
Here’s an example training schedule
Week 1 – 1 to 3 hours of intermittent fasting
Week 2 – 3 to 6 hours of intermittent fasting
Week 3 – 6 hours of intermittent fasting
Week 4 – 6 hours of intermittent fasting + 1 day of 12 hours of intermittent fasting
Week 5 – 6 hours of intermittent fasting + 1 day of 12 hours of intermittent fasting
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Continue progressing until you feel confident that you can do a 5 day green juice fast…
The cleaner you are the easier it is to fast… fasting helps you clean… so this process gets easier and easier the more you practice…
From experience, I can tell you the biggest battle is going to be with your mind…
This is what will begin your transformation process…
This is the part of the program where you want to be very clear about your intention… what is your goal and why?
Why are you looking to improve your gut health?
The stronger your reason why, the more likely you are to push through this…
If you don’t have a reason why, you are likely not going to push through this part of the program and you won’t get the results I get if you attempt anything else moving forward…
If you do push through this part of the program you will transform your health (and body) in a way that will make you stand out from the masses…
How to do a fat burning challenge
As with any skill, you need to practice… you will face challenges… you may fail at times, but the only way to fail is if you quit…
I don’t know about you, but I’m not perfect and I’ve gotten off track more times than I’d like to admit…
I simply pick up where I left off and continue on my journey…
That being said, here are the parameters to follow for this challenge…
#1 Start counting the hours spent fasting 12 hours after your last meal
#2 Use your sleeping time to transition to a fasted state
In other words, don’t eat breakfast and then “fast” for 12 hours during the day when you are awake and active… that will suck as you’ll be in starvation mode throughout the day…
Instead eat an early dinner around 7 pm… then count 12 hours as your transition period into a fasted state… that means that at 7am the next morning you’ll be entering the fasted state… from that point forward you will start counting the actual hours spent in a fasted state…
If you are doing 1 hours, then you will fast until 8 am…
If you are doing 6 hours, then you will break your fast at 1 pm…
For a full 12 hour fast, you are essentially doing one meal a day just eating dinner at 7 pm the next day (12 hours after you enter the fasted state at 7 am)…
Again, the goal here isn’t to just wake up one day and set out to do a 5 day green juice fast…
The goal is to be able to do that without putting your body through nausea, headaches and all the detox effects from doing aggressive fasting…
By gradually progressing a little bit at a time, you will be cleaning up your body an removing toxins that by the time you set out to do a 5 day green juice fast it will be a breeze because by then your body will be used to burning fat as a source of fuel and you’ll feel good when fasting…
If you don’t train your body and attempt to do a multiple day fasting you’ll feel weak, nausea, get headaches and will simply hate life and be cranky AF in the process…
Furthermore, you may find that you feel way better by shrinking down your eating window to less than 6 hours from noon to 6pm or 1pm to 7pm…
Whether you do two meals a day, or one meal a day (OMAD), you’ll find that your body digests food better, and you’ll have more time to do other things instead of spending time in the kitchen cooking and doing dishes for 3+ meals…
You can start the fat burning challenge and continue on the Beer Diet Project journey… in fact you’ll find that as you begin to stack the cleanses on the next few challenges will make fasting easier for you…
Hopefully by now you can start to see how important it is to do the groundwork from [Energy Bootcamp] and feed your body good healthy fat and improve fat digestion…
It’s important to work on your hydration and vitamin D levels… you may find as you begin to detox that you may need extra water to stay hydrated as your body will be using more water to flush out toxins out of the body…
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To complete this lesson please comment below letting us know how many hours a day of intermittent fasting are you starting with and what’s your goal for how many hours do you plan to build up to that you will do consistently moving forward…
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