The Expert Talks Intermittent Fasting - Weight Loss, Health & Lifestyle

It’s always fun to hang out with “cool geeky guys.”  My friend Brad Pilon is just such a guy.  He can spin the science to the point of making me dizzy.  But at the same time he’s just a regular guy who’s cool to hang out with.  And that’s just what I was doing a couple weeks ago, when we decided to pull out the camera.  If you missed it, here you can check out the first part of our Intermittent Fasting conversation.

In this, the last part of the chat, Brad and I talked about:

• Fasting and the acceptance from your entourage
• Hunger, hormones and what you eat BEFORE you fast
• Bonus: Our mysterious ladies make a reappearance
• Fasting and human evolution vs the Science
• Cultural examples of fasting throughout history
• The organic hoodwink

I hope you enjoy the wrap-up to our conversation.  Intermittent Fasting can play a substantial role in your overall nutritional strategy.  There are many posts about fasting here at Better’s Better.  But if you want to really understand exactly what happens to you when you fast, I highly recommend picking up a copy of Eat Stop Eat.  I bought it and thoroughly enjoyed it months before I even contemplated fasting in my own dietary strategy.

Brad recommends flexible 24 hour fasts combined with resistance exercise.  I’ve also interviewed authors who promote an “eating window” approach to fasting which is done everyday (or almost).

• Leangains
• Fast-5 Fat Loss Diet

If you have your own Intermittent Fasting experiences that you’d like to share, please tell us about it in the comments.  It’s always helpful to have the support of others who are experimenting with this effective, but sometimes challenging, nutritional approach.

Comments

[Richard Nikoley]

Brad rocks.

I've been relying on his great info for over a year since I bought ESE.

Here's a lot of my own experiences, including how I always work out fasted.

http://www.freetheanimal.com/root/intermittent-fasting/

I combine a Paleo-like diet, and I also never eat until at least two hours after a workout, sometimes up to six. I've done many high volume and crossfit style workouts up to 30 hours into a fast. It's amazing. I can bring on hunger and let it go away at will, just by varying intensity.

I can also normally drop about 5 pounds during a fast by going to the gym 6-8 hours into the fast, do 4-6 15-second sprints on the bike at full intensity, then go into the 40-degree cold plunge for 10 minutes. It takes a while to work up to that but is quite an experience.

I'm convinced that there is a lot to being cold, hungry, and operating at top intensity we have yet to learn, and how it expresses out most primal genes.

[Adam Steer]

Hey Richard,

Thanks for sharing your experiences. Eustress is what makes us better, stronger and faster. It seems that is what you are exploring with your methods.

I hope you keep sharing your exploits with us.

Cheers,
Adam

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