How to: Start Fasting

How to: Start Fasting

Fasting is simple. It’s so incredibly simple that it’s not actually an activity, it’s the lack of an activity. The lack of eating. The absence of eating. The deficiency of calories (read: not deficiency of nutrients, hydration, or water). It’s so remarkably simple that it’s also overwhelming. We get it.

Here are tips to get started fasting for weight-loss.

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The Salt Scam

The Salt Scam

By: Dr. Jason Fung. The war on salt is unjustified. Salt is crucial to maintain an adequate blood volume and blood pressure ensuring that our tissues are perfused with the oxygen carrying blood and nutrients. Salt is composed of equal parts sodium and chloride. When we measure the electrolytes in the blood, salt (sodium and chloride) are by far and away the most common ions.

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Homemade Chicken Broth

Homemade Chicken Broth

We’ve given you a recipe for homemade bone broth, and now it’s time for chicken. Bone broth has a very unique taste that not every one can get down with - TBH I prefer to drink chicken broth over bone, it gets alone better with my taste buds. Plus, there’s no need to buy the super processed chicken stock off the shelves for soups, recipes, etc. if you make it on your own. We can all eat less processed foods!

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New Dad, New Diet

Now, I've looked at a lot of diets over my entire life as an overweight person and none of them really spoke to me. And so I tried a bunch of different things over the years and had some limited success, but the Keto Diet kind of makes sense to me because you're training your body to burn fat for energy… and I have plenty of fat.

I have two kids, a five year old and a newborn. But my five year old is my stepdaughter. Although I've known her since she was pretty little, I didn't do the whole diapers, midnight feedings, and dad thing, so this is all new to me.

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Dr. Jason Fung shows Fasting Finally Breaking Through

 Dr. Jason Fung shows Fasting Finally Breaking Through

At Life In The Fasting Lane, we are becoming fully immersed in the world of fasting but it wasn't too long ago that we thought it sounded crazy. Fasting sounded like a fad that sounded dangerous and haphazard. Once we started fasting and discovered the health benefits so rapidly we were shocked. In the article, best-selling Author, Dr. Jason Fung, shows how fasting is finally breaking through into the mainstream consciousness.

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