“I work out every single day and I still can’t lose weight.”

“I train abs every single day and I never had a six pack”

If you are one of those people who train their bodies everyday, but still can’t see any results, no matter how hard you train, its’ not that you’re not working hard enough. There are offensive linemen in football who are very strong, but they have a lot of body fat. Their main objective is to be big and heavy to protect the quarterback from getting tackled by the opposing defensive team. If they don’t have abs, it’s because they’re not really suppose to.

Chances are, you’re not an offensive lineman (if you are, you understand the example I just gave). You want your abs to pop out and you want to have a more chiseled physique. The problem isn’t your muscle if you’re training everyday… it’s fat.

“But I’m not a fat guy. I have a good build, but my abs just don’t pop out.”

I won’t go into the science of things, but I’ll make it very simple. You may not be a fat guy, but the place where you store a lot of fat may be in your gut area. So from the chest up, you may look like a bodybuilder. From the legs down, you may look like a sprinter, but right in your gut region, you may look like you drink beer and eat pizza all day. It’s not necessarily that you’re fat, but your body stores fat in certain places. For some people (I happen to be one of these people), the gut is the last place to lose fat, but the first place to gain fat.

In order to burn this fat effortless, you can try doing these two things:

1. Eat at a caloric deficit

2. Fast for a certain amount of hours (or days)

So here’s how this works. I’ll explain this in a very elementary way because I’m not a fitness expert, but I watch a lot of videos on the subject.

You don’t need to eat all day long in order to live. This is a fairly new habit in human history. With the invention of supermarkets and fast food restaurants, we have more access to ready-to-eat food than ever before. Thousands of years ago, if you wanted to eat, you either had to gather fruits and vegetation from the land, which took time, or you had to hunt. So, you probably didn’t eat for most of your waking hours. When you did eat, you had to eat as much as possible to hold yourself until your next meal. You couldn’t store it in a refrigerator and have leftovers. Some people didn’t eat for days because the food source was more scarce. There was no vegetation growing in that region. The animals traveled a lot to find food, so the humans probably ate days apart. When they did eat, they made sure that they ate until they were stuffed. Then then it took another few days or so to find more food. Keep in mind that this was during a time before the invention of cars or animals being used as a mode of transportation in certain areas. These people had to travel miles by foot, which meant it would take days to reach hundreds of miles, which may have been the distance they needed to travel in order to get their next meal.

Why do I mention how people lived thousands of years ago? What does that have to do with getting a chiseled physique? To get you over the idea that you need to eat every few hours to build muscle. If you don’t eat for most of the day, you’re not gonna wither away and die. As a matter of fact, the opposite happens. People who fast actually live longer because their body is not spending all of it’s time digesting food, but instead, it’s repairing itself. It’s eliminating dead tissue from the body or using it as a fuel source. You know what else your body uses as a fuel source when you’re fasting? Fat! Yes, when you don’t eat all the time your body is like,

“No more food? Okay, let’s start going into the fat reserve we’ve built up for moments like this”

You see, your body stores fat as a survival mechanism. If our bodies couldn’t store fat, we would not exist as a human species. When you’re not eating for most of the day, your body is using fat as a fuel source. So when you know and understand this, the idea of eating every few hours is kinda counterproductive to building a better body. You have to work harder to burn fat, which is very demoralizing for people who want to lose weight. If these people added Intermittent Fasting into their lives, they can enjoy the foods they love and maintain a more lean body.

So you may thinking, “I’m gonna be hungry all day if I don’t eat”. That’s true, if you eat like a bird for your meals. When you do Intermittent Fasting, you want to be like the people of prehistoric times. When they ate a big meal so they won’t be hungry for hours. It will take an adaption period of possibly 3-4 weeks to feel comfortable not eating all day long. Eating has become more entertaining and a habit than a survival mechanism for us in modern times.

Another thing you may be thinking is “If I don’t eat, and I workout, I’ll die”. No, no, no. I will workout fasted and not eat for hours. Remember, our human ancestors didn’t eat a protein bar or chug a protein shake before killing that huge animal to bring back to the tribe. Instead, they only relied on the fat that their body stored from the previous meal they ate. Will you feel a little more weaker? Maybe, but this will pass when you get adapted to it.

So now that you know that you won’t die if you don’t eat for hours (or days), let’s talk about the benefits.

Men who do Intermittent Fasting won’t balloon up in weight so easy. The weight they do gain will be mostly muscle. People who do Intermittent Fasting will notice that they are able to eat at a calorie deficit and not feel like they’re suffering along the way. Let’s say you have to eat 2,000 a day to lose weight. You could either eat 6 small meals of 333 calories, restricting yourself from eating junk food, and just waiting until your next meal or you can eat a big meal that may be 1500 calories and your last meal could be about 500 calories (possibly your favorite kind of junk food). Which one would you rather do?

By eating 1-2 solid meals that fill you up, within a specific eating window (4-8 hours a day), and fasting for the remainder of your day, your food gets to digest a lot better. When you’re eating small meals all day long, your body spends the majority of the day digesting food. When you eat all of your daily calories in a smaller window, and fast for the remainder of the day, your body can digest food, and start repairing some of the damage your body has been going through over time. This usually works better on longer fasts.

When you fast over longer periods of time (days, weeks, or months), your body can really start digging into your fat reserves. It will also allow you to eliminate waste that has been in your colon for days or even weeks. It’s been said that people who do on longer fasts are able to heal their bodies of ailments and diseases like autoimmune diseases, cancers, diabetes, and the list goes on. This makes sense if you let go of the idea that we need to go to the doctor for every little ailment we have. The body is designed to repair itself. The problem is it spends most of it’s time digesting food and a very little amount of time repairing the damage that has been done to it over time.

You don’t have to fast for days, weeks, or months to have a chiseled body. By having a 16-20 hour fasting period, and a 4-8 hour eating window, you’ll see how much weight comes off. Don’t expect to get this perfect. You may get hungry outside your eating window and decide to eat. You may go over consume your daily calories. Don’t feel like it’s not gonna work. Once you get it right, losing fat becomes almost too easy.

Another good thing about fasting is it’s a gateway to eating better. Let’s say you eat a lot of junk food. When you know that your goal is to not eat all day long, you’re gonna start eating foods that fill you up for hours. If you’re at work where you can’t sit down and eat a good meal, you may eat snacks like pecans or almonds, that can blunt your hunger with fewer calories until you’re ready for your main meal. You can play with the idea of eating later in the day or eating breakfast in the morning to get you through your workday without thinking of food all day long.

If you apply this way of eating into your life, things will change for you in a major way. You can maintain your six-pack abs, and see your muscles through your shirts, all year round. If you get your body fat percentage to the single digits, it will feel like fishing with dynamite when you start talking to these women. Yes, you’ll still need to have an attractive and charismatic personality, however, you’ll have less resistance than men who rely solely on their charismatic personality.

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