Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy, and Balance Hormones

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Fasting is such an incredible tool for our mental and physical health. Dr. Mindy is my go-to for fasting! She’s teaching women like me how to tap into our innate intelligence while minding our hormones. – Alexandra Elle, author of After the Rain and How We Heal

There is a paragraph about avoiding animal proteins with added antibiotics and growth hormones, and to “always choose organic, non-GMO and antibiotic and hormone free foods wherever possible”. This messaging is so boring and just plain wrong.Autophagy Fasting. Naomi Whittel in her book Glow 15 talks about autophagy fasting. Autophagy fasting entails 16-18 hours of fasting (this is considered the “sweet spot”). There are some additional key principles here you’ll want to follow. When you break your fast, you’ll break it with healthy fats. This helps keep your blood sugar stable and curbs hunger, allowing you to go another 3-4 hours without eating. You’ll keep carbs under 50g and protein under 20g (animal or plant). Naomi Whittel also recommends eating carbs later in the day. Autophagy fasting is great for a lot of people, here is more information on what it is and why you should try it. So far, we’ve delved into the transformative powers of fasting, how it can harmonize with your hormonal cycle, and even discussed a 30-day reset plan. Now, let’s zoom in on an essential part of fasting—the food you choose to eat during non-fasting hours. Get a blood reader like the Keto Mojo for this step, and learn how to measure your blood sugar and ketones . You’ll take a reading right after you wake up and a second reading right before you eat your first meal. What you want to see is that blood sugar is decreasing and ketones are increasing. If this isn’t happening, you’ll want to try increasing your fasting window and also taking a closer look at your macros.

This book explains a women’s cycle in such clear, concise, details. I wish I had it when I was younger because it explains what and why our bodies do what they do. Even at my age, I didn’t understand the complexity of our hormones. Once I got through part 1, which I would summarize as an advertisement for fasting, we move on to part 2. This section goes on to blame most chronic diseases on metabolic syndrome, and her solution to “our current metabolic situation”, is fasting (a single cause for multiple complex issues = red flag). Fast Like a Girl is written by Mindy Pelz, a chiropractor and “nutrition and functional health expert.”

How women should fast differently?

Pelz goes on to tell readers that “as someone who loves to let the science guide me, I was left with little to go on and decided to do my own research. I turned to my community to see what worked best.” In this section, we also learn that Pelz advocates for social media as a great source of health solutions, explaining that “ the upside of social media is that you can teach yourself how to solve many of your health challenges”, and I am beginning to understand why Pelz’ YouTube channel is plugged so many times throughout this book. Much like with exercise, fasting is an incredible, free healing tool that everyone can benefit from. What makes this book so unique is that women now have a fasting manual that will help customize food and fasting to match the needs of their hormones. In Fast Like a Girl, Dr. Mindy not only makes the science of fasting easy to understand but lays out a whole new health paradigm for women and men to improve their lives in a myriad of ways. – Tony Horton, bestselling author and creator of the popular P90X workout series We all apparently also need to get new friends who fast. That is ridiculous. Sharing a meal with friends is one of the great pleasures in life.

Inspired by the thousands of women she has worked with who have reclaimed their health with fasting, Dr. Mindy wrote this book because “once a woman knows how to build a fasting lifestyle around her cycle, she becomes unstoppable.” Inspired by the thousands of women she has worked with who have reclaimed their health with fasting, Dr. Mindy wrote this book because, "once a woman knows how to build a fasting lifestyle around her cycle, she becomes unstoppable."There are some people who should be cautious about doing this , such as people with adrenal fatigue, complicated health conditions, or women the week before their menstrual cycle (because this is when we need carbs to create hormones). Don’t forget to feast! Fasting is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Dr. Mindy Pelz is one of the leading experts in this area of fasting for women, and she truly understands how fasting is different for both men and women. If you’re a woman and want to get the most out of fasting, then this is the book for you. – Drew Manning, creator of TV show Fit2Fat2Fit and New York Times bestselling author of Fit2Fat2Fit There is a “toxic ingredients to avoid” list, including a common rule of thumb in the alternative health community, that “if you can’t pronounce an ingredient, chances are it’s a chemical”. The final section of recipes was ehh. With 5 kids, these recipes are not practical for easy prep or likability. There were a few that would be family friendly but for the most part I skipped over the recipe section. Fasting can provide significant health benefits , for a variety of health issues, symptoms and conditions. Because fasting works to repair and heal on a cellular level, research suggests that it can help conditions like obesity, diabetes, sleep apnea, some types of cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, arthritis, asthma, multiple sclerosis, IBS and chronic or autoimmune conditions.