Re: Intermittent fasting

Olivia,

Thank you for the kind words.

During a fast, body never eats the muscle till it has depleted all food sources, which usually happens after day 30+ depending on your fat reserves. After that body will eat lean muscle, then main hard muscle, Heart muscle is the last thing body will touch, nature's amazing design. Two to three days of fasting will hardly affect your muscles.

Ketosis is a normal metabolic process, something your body does to keep working, when it doesn't have enough carbohydrates from food for your cells to burn for energy, it burns fat instead. As part of this process, it makes ketones.

If you're healthy and eating a balanced diet your body controls how much fat it burns, and you don't normally make or use ketones. But when you cut way back on your calories or carbs, your body will switch to ketosis for energy. It can also happen after a good work out.

So you can do 6:1, say not to eat on Sunday, it will give your much needed rest and cleaning time. I recall a story, long time back in India the Prime Minister inpired the nation to fast on Mondays and the whole country fasted one day week, and became known as Shastri-Monday. I am sure some cheated. Lol.

Have fun with it.

Archus