Safety Tips for Ensuring Optimal Intermittent Fasting Success

Safety Tips for Ensuring Optimal Intermittent Fasting Success

When you decide to use fasting to lose weight, you have to be aware of how to properly refeed. If you’re not, you can cause problems for your body and end up undermining your weight loss efforts.

Refeeding simply means eating again after a fast. When you do without food, your body stops producing as many digestive enzymes. There’s no need for the enzymes, since there’s no work to do.

If you don’t refeed correctly, you’ll experience problems. Some of these problems include issues such as diarrhea. You may end up with gas pains that are bad enough to double you over.

You may also experience bloating. Some people who use intermittent fasting experience nausea when they attempt to begin eating again. The reason that these symptoms can happen is because your body is slow to respond once food is reintroduced....