Here is a much easier solution to set up than forcing yourself to fast 16 hours in a row to lose weight.
In recent years, intermittent fasting has established itself as the miracle solution to lose weight quickly. By jumping for breakfast or by shifting the dinner, many have seen the balance lean on the right side. But a new study may well question everything.
The University of Surrey, in England, wanted to verify what, in intermittent fasting, really made it possible to draw from the fat reserves. The researchers then conducted a life -size experience on twelve overweight adults. The idea: to make them test three types of food days, each spaced five days of break, to compare the effects on the body. First test: a day of classic meals, without restrictions. Second test: the same amount of calories, but carbohydrates. Third test: fewer calories and still no carbohydrates. In the early morning, after each test day, the analyzes were formal. What pushed the body to get in its fat reserves was not to eat less. It was especially the fact of doing without carbohydrates.
Professor Adam Collins, who supervised this study, explains it very simply: “The body is designed to use carbohydrates as a source of energy when you have them – for example, after a meal – then to use the fats between meals and overnight.“The problem, according to him, is that our modern eating habits-snacks, rich and frequent meals-prevent switching into this” grain-burning “mode. Result: the pounds settle, the fat is stored.
Conclusion, if the intermittent fast has long been seen as a good way to reset the meters to zero, according to this new study, a single day without carbohydrates would have similar effects on metabolism. For Adam Collins, the idea is therefore not to banish pasta, bread or rice for life, but rather to alternate. Normal days when you eat a little of everything, without excess. And, from time to time, days poor in carbohydrates, to restart the machine and encourage the body to re -turn fat.
Thus, exit starchy foods, sweet products, cereals, bread, pasta, rice or cookies. Make way for eggs, fish, lean meats, green vegetables, salads, avocados, cheeses and oilseeds. The idea is not to ban the carbohydrates. Just to make room, punctually, to somewhat different days.
