 surprise flicks greetings laddingtons I'm checking in from beautiful Lothalorean here in Middle Earth aka Sweden Sweden in June what a time to be alive so today I thought to radicalize you all with my teachings but before I begin to do so I would like to offer a fair warning to all parents if you have teenage sons that watch too many of my videos I will just give this heads up that they might start going to such extreme measures as to stop watching porn start going to the gym start going to read more books start having an aversion to drugs and alcohol and start generally taking more care of their mental and physical well-being so be prepared for that just thought to give that fair warning so you all know what is up when you come to my channel no that being said I have a lot of fitness and health videos in incoming I thought about making many of these before but then the whole censorship scandal broke so I had to deal with that first but I'm trying to catch up on the videos I have promised you all especially you on patreon and subscribe star I've said that I'll make videos on it this is one of them so shout out to you again for your support so basically what it means intermittent fasting as you see in the title is that you eat during a window during the day so between a few hours you can eat and you can decide yourself on how long that window will be so I first stumbled upon intermittent fasting via my Swedish countryman Martin Birken a few years back on his page lean gains and I link it below because it's important to give credit where credit is due and I thought it seemed perfectly reasonable everything he wrote and if you want to look at the scientific studies behind what I'm talking about you can check that out there I mean starting from my own personal experience so basically the first step is to cut out breakfast basically and that is the main point for me when I talk about intermittent fasting because most people they aren't really that hungry in the morning and for me also personally I like to get things done in the morning I don't want to waste time on making something to eat I can have a coffee or a tea in the morning I made a video a few weeks back and to again clarify I don't diss about coffee in the list I think it's a great supplement I think it's a great light drug as it were it's an it's a healthy drug but use it would care for me it was just a personal choice of cutting down somewhat on the consumption but if you want to start doing intermittent fasting and you still have that hunger or craving in the morning you can just have a cup of coffee instead and let that be your breakfast so that's the first step to cut out breakfast because unless you are a bulk bra or if you are younger you're still growing and stuff you can you can cut out breakfast and place that those extra calories if you need them at lunch so lunch then becomes your first meal of the day and this is something I've done for seven or so years so that lunch is the first meal then again if it's more convenient for me to eat a breakfast or because it's part of a certain experience so if I'm at some sort of hotel it's a nice breakfast of course I will partake in it so I'm not that static that I let it go out over my enjoyment of life as it were and then also if I know that eating early on in the day is the only time to eat during the day because of some reasons then I will obviously do it so first step cutting out breakfast and for me it's a matter of convenience I just like to get a good start of the morning get things done and not be as dependent upon food and that's the second aspect I would like to enlighten you to it's the aspect of becoming less dependent upon food so if you're used to not eating for longer periods of time it doesn't matter if for whatever reason one day you are longer without meals so if you get used to doing longer fasts you can deal with certain situations in a better manner and then also if we're talking about for you who are interested in survivalism etc getting your body to be a bit more comfortable with going longer periods of time without food it's obviously a very good idea so for example if I'm out and about and I eat my first meal at 16 or something like that it's perfectly fine for me my cognitive ability isn't reduced where as if I would have been dependent upon eating every three or four hours my cognitive ability and the general mood would be lessened because you all know it's not nice to be hungry but if you are used to dealing with longer periods of time without eating it will affect you less then last aspect it's also a matter of if you want to get shredded if you want to lose some weight there is there are plenty of ways to do so for me to just recommend intermittent fasting to someone it's a good first step now keep in mind that if you want to lose weight it's about calories in versus calories out so you have to spend more calories than you take in and restricting your eating is a great way to not have to think all too much about what you eat and also if you want to lose even more weight you can cut out all liquid calories so that you chew all food you take in then of course you can drink coffee water tea etc that do not have any calories in it but that's another aspect so you eat your last meal at 20 or 22 depending on when you get home from training so for me if I train at 21 I get back at 22 perhaps then I eat my last meal or if I'm training at 19 I get back at 20 or something I eat my last meal then brush my teeth and that's the end of the day now for the sake of transparency I'm not as strict when it comes to the evenings sometimes I eat anyway but if I'm trying to get shredded I'm more strict with the evening timing as well but when it comes to breakfast it's a rarity that I eat it so that was my thoughts on intermittent fasting I hope it was somewhat helpful and informative at least and thank you for watching be sure to follow me on telegram as well ex 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