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How to Start Intermittent Fasting: A Beginner's Guide #shorts #shorts#viral #trending #fasting

27 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube tutorial (creator: Anne Truong MD) explaining how to begin intermittent fasting. Key advice: during fasting you may drink water and black coffee (no cream or sugar). Start with a 12-hour fast (e.g., 8pm–8am), then add about 1 hour per week until reaching ~16 hours fasting with an 8-hour eating window (16:8). The creator reports personally doing 16:8 and occasionally (about once per month) doing a 24-hour fast consuming only water and coffee.

Questions this video answers

Start with a 12-hour fast (example given: 8pm to 8am).

Add about 1 hour of fasting each week until reaching ~16 hours (16:8).

Water and black coffee (no cream, no sugar).

Yes — about once a month the speaker does a 24-hour fast consuming only water and coffee.

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So how should you start fasting? Well, fasting's been around for thousands of years. Some people fast for days on hand. But I suggest you do intermittent fasting. And what that means is that you can drink water when you're fasting and you wake up in the morning. You can drink black coffee, but no cream, no sugar. It's still considered fasting. And I would suggest that you start maybe 8pm to 8am and do 12 hours and then slowly add another hour every week until you reach for about 16 hours of not eating and then an eight hour window of eating. I myself do intermittent fasting. I do a 16 hour no eating, an 8 hour window of eating as well. And then once a month, I will do a 24 hour no eating and just water and coffee alone.