March 2017 NS Newsletter 3 | Page 15

www.newellstrength.com www.unlockingyourinnerstrength.com Getting back to the story at hand, I would say my start with intermittent fasting got off to a great start. I became super lean and I was able to eat larger meals, something I greatly looked forward to as a food lover. How does this benefit you, the interested reader? All I hope is that when you read the next part of this piece, you will consider implementing intermittent fasting and getting off all of these junk diets you are trying or have recycle from the past. -Insulin will remain low which means more fat loss for you -Growth hormone will rise which means more fat loss for you -Free fatty acids levels will remain high which means more fat burning for you -Fat burning potential will remain high -Amino acid movement will remain ‘up’ which means more lean muscle for you -Adrenaline and nor-adrenaline will remain high which means more alertness and fat loss for you -Cortisol will remain high which means more alertness and fat loss for you -Leptin will remain lower which means you are losing fat -Autophagy will be up which means you are getting rid of the bad or damaged parts of your cells Interestingly, these very same things happen when you resistance train. By combining the two, strength training and intermittent fasting, you can get a double dose of the above fat loss and health benefits. Here’s how to apply intermittent fasting: For men, go 16 hours after your last meal and for women go 14 hours after your last meal. In the interim, during the period in which you are not sleeping, you can have coffee, tea or water. You can use stevia in your coffee and tea but note that if you are into making ‘Bullet proof’ coffee or putting some heavy cream in your coffee, you will lose out on the autophagy process noted above. The key is to make this work for you as an individual. I will leave you with a quick denouncing of the two myths I list above. Breakfast as you know it is not the most important meal of the day. The traditional breakfast is a fairly new phenomenon and is largely drive by marketing dollars. If you were to just look at what goes on hormonally with the human body then it is pretty hard to make ANY case for eating within the first few