Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy, and Balance Hormones

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Also, increasing your carb intake will improve the production of progesterone in your body. Hurray! No shutdown. Peri-menopause (erratic menstrual cycle) So far, we’ve delved into the transformative powers of fasting, how it can harmonize with your hormonal cycle, and even discussed a 30-day reset plan. Now, let’s zoom in on an essential part of fasting—the food you choose to eat during non-fasting hours. At first glance, it seems simple enough: stop eating, then start eating again, right? However, if you want to reap the full benefits of your body’s efforts during fasting, it’s vital to choose your first post-fast meal wisely. Your fasting goals should guide this choice.

In Dr. Mindy Pelz’s enlightening book, Fast Like a Girl, you’ll find descriptions of fasts that last up to, and even beyond, 72 hours. But don’t worry, that’s not the norm. The main element cornerstone of the fasting lifestyle is intermittent fasting, which usually involves going 13 to 15 hours without food each day. Not so scary now, is it? Full Book Name: Fast Like a Girl: A Woman’s Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy, and Balance Hormones Dr. Mindy is such a wonderful women’s health advocate by empowering women, at all stages, to embrace their physiology and to stop apologizing for our own unique needs! Fasting is one of many tools that can help us thrive irrespective of our life stage! – Cynthia Thurlow NP, author of Intermittent Fasting Transformation

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We’ve all heard that age-old dieting advice: “calories in must be less than calories out.” This mantra has been repeated for years, telling us if we eat fewer calories than we burn, we’ll shed pounds and become healthier. But recent studies suggest it’s less about the quantity you eat, and more about when you eat. As a society women approach our day to day life as if,what happensinside our bodies would be the same day in day out. When the reality is that women’s bodies work on a cycle and this cycle affects performance, metabolisation, how women’s brain and body works. Unfortunately, this study is not referenced, the authors name(s) are not provided, and there is also no reasoning given as to why this is even relevant to the book. Pelz claims that “when you put your cells into both a state of autophagy and ketosis, [you are] creating an amplified healing state” and throughout this section of her book she lists physiologic processes preceded with words like “increases”, “decreases”, “resets” and “repairs”, to signal that fasting has a positive association with each one: “increases autophagy!”, “repairs the immune system!”, “Increases growth hormone production”, and the worst of all, “reduces the reoccurrence of cancer!”. Dr. Mindy Pelz is a well-known holistic health expert who educates women about their bodies. She teaches her “5-Step Approach” to empower people to use fasting, diet variation, detoxing, stress management, and lifestyle changes to achieve optimal health and slow down aging.

I love the food recommendation for helping the healing process, from ketobiotic days, hormone feasting days and gut reset days etc. To name a few. No stone has been left unturned. There is also recipes to get you started. There are some people who should be cautious about doing this , such as people with adrenal fatigue, complicated health conditions, or women the week before their menstrual cycle (because this is when we need carbs to create hormones). Don’t forget to feast! It’s also important for me to say here, as a dietitian, that I don’t recommend that anyone fast for 72 hours. Or, for that matter, more than 16 hours. And some people shouldn’t be fasting at all, but more on that later. We will link the fascinating episode below for you, so you can have a listen - it's absolutely worth an hour - actually 2, of your time.Here we outlinethe 4 different phases highlighted in the podcast forreference. Day 1-10 - “Power phase” Before we delve into how fasting and the female hormonal cycle intertwine, let’s first take a moment to understand the basics of this hormonal cycle. Each cycle begins on the first day of menstruation and ends on the first day of the next period. The average cycle lasts 28 days, though it’s entirely normal for it to be a little shorter or a bit longer.

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Generally, women need estrogen and progesterone (women’s sex hormones) irrespective of their cycles. Remember, GRH stimulates the production of women’s sex hormones. Metabolic switching worked perfectly with our ancestors’ habits. Today, we often don’t fully reach a fasted state because we have access to food 24/7. The benefits of fasting vary with the length of the fast, and we’ll cover different fasting windows and their uses later in the Blink. But first, let’s look at another important component that impacts the science of fasting: a woman’s cycle.