Eating and fasting: we already do it
Eating is one of the primary needs for the human body . It is eaten because the body requires it to survive, but it is also eaten for many other reasons. The social dimension of food, and even the compensatory one, make eating a pleasure or a slavery.
Food's task is to keep the body healthy, providing it with the energy necessary to live and perform all the functions: simply this.
In this view, food is always a pleasure, because it alleviates an essential need of every living being.
When eating becomes something else, responding to different needs, such as compensating for differently unmet emotional needs, eating can become a problem.
Fasting, as well as eating, is a fundamental dimension for living beings : in fact between one meal and another we fast.
Someone fasts a few hours, someone else fasts for longer. An example is the time we spend resting at night: more often than not, it is the longest fast we face during the day.
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Intermittent fasting, what it is
Numerous studies have shown that calorie restriction, ie eating less, and the quality of what we ingest, ie eating better, positively affect health and well-being.
Fasting has also been revalued for a long time: it is no longer seen as a privation, but as a "pause" from food, a time when priorities shift to other areas of one's life, without revolving everything around the organization and at the meal ritual.
Intermittent conscious fasting consists of voluntarily refraining from food for 2 or 3 days a week, keeping the caloric intake constant during the remaining days, without overdoing binges and maintaining a balanced and healthy diet .
Depending on your metabolic profile and your constitution, you can fast for just one day, taking a light breakfast and avoiding lunch and dinner, until breakfast the next day.
Intermittent fasting can be made only of water, but for those not familiar with this practice it would be better to still consume juices and centrifuged vegetables (little) fresh and in season.
An ancient saying required fasting " one meal a week, one day a month, and one week a year ".
Intermittent fasting can be started by anyone in good health, and can start from abstaining from food for a meal a day, whether it is lunch or dinner.
Observing oneself in this context is a unique and special experience of self-knowledge: one can discover many mechanisms unknowingly acted out and reveal what lies behind our hunger, how our body reacts but, above all, our mind.
When you get to fast for an internal day it is necessary to reintroduce the food without exaggerating, starting from cooked or raw vegetables, and always listening to the signals of the body: bingeing the day after a fast nullifies the positive effects of fasting and indeed produces harmful on the body.
If you choose 2 or 3 days of fasting it is necessary that these are interspersed with days in which you feed normally and in a balanced manner.
Fasting is a practice that is very fashionable in certain areas, but should never be approached lightly.
Consult with your doctor if you have special needs or pathologies in progress, do not be discouraged if the first fasts will make you think that "you absolutely have to eat", observe yourself, observe your body, listen to the real need that it sends you about food, be patient, you see the advantages of intermittent fasting, and your breaks from meals are gradually adapted to your pace.
Good experience .
