In 2013 I began a weight loss regimen called Intermittent Fasting that changed my life forever. I decided to give this method a try and promised my self that if I saw results then I would continue to use this method until I reach my desire body composition. To my astonishment I lost more then 15 pounds in one month! I could not believe what I was seeing on the scale and in the mirror. What made it more visually shocking was the fact that I decided to record my weight loss every Friday for 28 days and realized that the body transformation was very clear in the videos. My name is Edward Vasquez and you may or may not know me from my video on YouTube in which I decided to take my transformation of 28 days and compile it into a video for all to see. The next shock came when the video took off!! To my surprise so many people showed interest in the method. A new journey had sparked and it was to help those who wanted to try something different when all else failed.

Intermittent fasting was not very popular when I decided to start it, and oddly enough still isn’t as popular as it should be. Most people know the “eat every 3 hours because it speeds up you metabolism” diet or the Akins diet. But I’m constantly finding my self explaining what intermittent fasting is to friends and even family members. So for those in the dark I’m happy you made it this far in the article and as a gift I will explain intermittent fasting just for you. Ok lets go, Intermittent fasting is an eating regimen where you schedule a time window for eating and a time window for not eating, confused? Don’t be you’ll understand soon enough. Intermittent Fasting has a few sub categories, Eat Stop Eat is where one would eat one day then not eat the next so, for example I eat all day Monday and I don’t eat Tuesdays I eat Wednesdays but not Thursdays got it? Wait don’t freak out! Are you still there? Good, not all “IF” regimens are as harsh as that. The regimen I have chosen is the Warrior Diet. With this diet you eat within a 6hour time frame and fast for 18 hours in a day. For example if you eat at 12pm then you will stop eating at 6pm, now for all the crazies out there it doesn’t mean eat continuously from 12 to 6 non stop, that is entirely impractical and very dangerous. Space out your meals any way you like but make sure that by 6pm (according to this example) you stop eating then commence your food intake the next day at 12pm. It’s that simple. No extra powders, no magic pill. Just control your eating times and watch your weight wither away.

So you may be asking, well is that healthy? Or how does it work? To answer the former, yes it is healthy and contrary to popular belief may actually air on the healthier side of nutrition. Do you know why children dream that they are being attacked by wolves or monsters? Or why they are lost in the woods all alone? Because back in primal days those were actual daily threats. The thing is the body takes many hundreds of thousands of years to adjust to new environments. Our bodies evolve and adapt but many residual effects linger for longer periods. To keep it short we lived in age of feast and famine where the human body needed to adapt to keep us alive. Your muscles would be protected because when in a fasting state your HGH increases 3000% and protects muscle tissue. This was necessary to maintain your strength to hunt for animals to kill and eat. Your body would store calories in preparation of famine in which days would go by before your next meal. Our bodies have yet to shed this evolutionary trait. Our current life style definitely has feast as evident by a Mcdonalds fast food restaurant likely to be 15 minutes or less away from your current location. We definitely don’t have the famine part happening (for most of us). “IF” allows you to balance your body to a closer resemblance of its natural biology from our past. Cool now that we got that out of the way lets explain why it works so fast-ing… saw what I did there? No? Ok lets move on. Intermittent Fasting works because your body is forced to use stored energy for your everyday life functions, because your removing the element of constant food your body has no choice but to react accordingly. The more consistent you are the more effective it becomes. I call this the “Calorie vs Time Manipulation Effect” now that sounds like a scientific word that doesn’t mean anything but let me explain with the warrior diet you are not eating for 126 hours in a week that’s 504 hours a month and 6,048 hours a year! Those numbers add up or subtract in this case and your body has to adjust to keep you moving that means it needs to use more stored energy, energy equals calories, and calories equal fat. Get it? So go out there and give this a try if you’ve exhausted every option, the results may surprise you. Below is the video that start it it all for me. Enjoy and I hope in inspires you to at least open your mind to Intermittent Fasting.