What to Eat While Intermittent Fasting (3 Foods You Must Avoid)

What should you eat during an intermittent fast? And more specifically, I’m gonna share with you the three foods you must avoid. If you’re fasting in this content.

Now, let me kind of preface this by saying, if you’re doing a one –day fast, I have a little secret to tell you. You should probably be avoiding all food, Okay! Because otherwise you’re not really a one-day fast. But even with the said, some people sneak some things in and have different ways of doing fast, like protein fast or whatever fake fasts. But if you’re doing a pure fast, the only thing you should be consuming is water or herbal tea. So, let’s talk about these three foods you want to avoid.

Number one of sugar, if you’re having herbal tea, I have had a lot of questions. Hey, can I have honey in my tea? Can I add some sweetener to my tea? The answer is no and no. Otherwise, you’re not doing a full one-day fast. I mean... it sounds a little bit strict but hare’s the reality. The reason we don’t want to do this because we want to give our body a sense of time, 1 day or 16 hours, whatever it might be in your case, where nothing is coming in that. It is going to disrupt digestion or raise your blood sugar beyond normal. We want your body to kind of recalibrate itself and do what it’s supposed to do without having to worry about all this food stuff coming in. So if you have sugar for instance, if you have honey in your tea, normally honey, Manuka honey, raw honey, totally find in, you know, small quantities. But here’s the thing. If we’re doing a fast, you’re not having any other food coming in. So if you are having pure honey in your herbal tea, that’s gonna go, right, it’s gonna spike your blood sugar very quickly because there’s nothing, no other food, no other protein, no fiber to buffer that out of the stomach or to slow its absorption. So now you’re gonna have this rise in blood sugar, so now your blood sugar is gonna peak a little bit, not good. Insulin which is a storage hormone, releases to take that sugar out of the blood. So now instead of being in fat-burning mode, you’re actually in storage mode which is not what we want during a one-day fast. The benefit of doing a fast, there are numerous but from the weight-loss perspective is that you’re not in storage mode, you’re in breakdown and fat-burning mode. So by having sugar, you kind of completely negate that. So sugar is the number one food you want to avoid in any from on a one day fast.

Second. Number two, is caffeine.

Caffeine is typically, you know, it’s not really a food. However, as you guys know I’m not a huge fan of caffeine in general, coffee, Red bull, energy drinks, doesn’t really matter it’s all the same stuff. Caffeine is gonna do the same thing to your blood sugar. And it’s gonna make you feel really jittery and not food , especially if you’re on an empty stomach all day long. And I’m not talking about doing like, you know, the bulletproof coffee here with, you know MCT oil and all that stuff. That not a true fast, that’s something else. If you’re doing a fast, where you’re consuming nothing for one day, just water and herbal tea, caffeine has no place. That’s why I said herbal tea, not black tea, not green tea because caffeine in and of itself by itself is gonna do a couple things. If you’re not used to it, It’s gonna make you feel jittery. That’s one of the reasons I don’t drink it at all. Second, it’s gonna ruin your adrenal glands over time. Caffeine is a stimulant and your adrenal glands deal with stimulants. They deal with stress. Stimulants are a form of stress in the body. So you are gonna drink the caffeine, your adrenal glands are gonna pump out adrenaline, and that’s why you feel all jazzed up and ready to go for about an hour. And then you hit the crush, and then you’re like, “Oh my god, I need more caffeine, “and it becomes a vicious cycle. So not good for the adrenals. And the second thing it does, it almost done exact same thing as sugar. Because of what it does to the adrenals, when we pump out that adrenaline. Adrenaline’s gonna break down stored fuel and raise blood sugar. So now more so than normal, so it’s gonna rise our blood sugar, insulin is gonna be secreted, it’s gonna take all that sugar to the blood, you’re goona have a crash, and you’re gonna go through this up-and- down rollercoaster all day long. So caffeine not good on a one day fast, not good in general.

And the third food is really the whole category of calories. So the benefit of fasting is that you’re tapping into your body’s ability to spend time in a fasted state. There’s two states in the body, there’s fed and fasted. When we’re talking about this, you know type of discussion. Fed state, is when you’re eating food and digesting food. Avery labor energy intensive process. When you’re always eating food you’re always digesting, your hormones are working to store all that stuff, your stomach’s working hard, enzymes are being produced, intestines are working, blag, blag, blag lot of going on. Your body doesn’t have a lot of energy to do other things. How did you feel after like…after last Thanksgiving dinner? Not really energized probably, right? I certainly remember when I was younger least, several food comas where I was like falling asleep at the table or falling asleep on the couch afterwards. So if we’re digesting food all the time we don’t have energy to do other things and the beautiful thing a fasted state, is that your body now has all of this energy freed up to now scavenge, and repair, and recycle all sort of junk that needs to be dealt with inside your body. More… In this video