Intermittent Fasting vs Intermittent Feasting

Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent fasting (IF) is largely used for 2 reasons:

1. Autophagy
2. Calorie Control (fat loss)

Should you do it? How often? Here’s how I like to look at it:

Here’s my tweetstorm on the whole thing (the original Insta story is saved under I.F. fyi):

Most people do intermittent fasting for 2 major reasons:

1. Autophagy

2. Calorie control

Should you?

— Kevin Stock (@kevinstock12) April 24, 2018

Autophagy is cellular cleaning.

I like to think of this like cleaning your house.

— Kevin Stock (@kevinstock12) April 24, 2018

If you make a big mess in your house every day and it accumulates day after day, when it comes time to clean up, it’s going to take some time.

A messy house = a bad diet

The bigger and more often you make a mess, the more sense it makes to clean up frequently

i.e. Fast.

— Kevin Stock (@kevinstock12) April 24, 2018

But if you keep your house clean day in and day out, you really don’t need to schedule big “cleaning days.”

The house is clean.

No need to force a fast.

— Kevin Stock (@kevinstock12) April 24, 2018

Intermittent Fasting can be an effective strategy for calorie control.

However, most people would be far better off regulating appetite and killing cravings first.

— Kevin Stock (@kevinstock12) April 24, 2018

On an all meat diet or the carnivore diet fasting for the purpose of autophagy isn’t necessary. You are feeding the body optimal nutrition. You aren’t making a mess in the house.

— Kevin Stock (@kevinstock12) April 24, 2018

Additionally, without the sugars and refined carbohydrates your natural appetite regulates and cravings disappear.

“Intermittent Fasting” is often a natural consequence.
Not a forced act of suffering.

— Kevin Stock (@kevinstock12) April 24, 2018

Recap:

Foods we aren’t designed to eat = messy house = forced autophagy through fasting is probably a good idea

Food we are designed to eat = clean house = self-regulated and natural autophagy through “intermittent feasting”

— Kevin Stock (@kevinstock12) April 24, 2018

Intermittent Feasting

Autophagy is a good, natural, and necessary process.

It can be a very natural process too. Not a forced sacrifice wrought with mental fatigue, willpower, and suffering.

When the body is fed what it’s designed to eat – 18+ hour fasts are a natural result of a naturally regulated appetite.

Perhaps the biggest surprise that came out of starting a carnivore diet was the regulation of appetite. I no longer looked at the clock counting down the seconds to the next meal. I no longer ate by the clock at all, but by a natural hunger that most people have never experienced.

Hope this clarifies some thinking around intermittent fasting.

By the way, come join me on twitter for the next tweetstorm ?

Or better – I also email these out every saturday at 7…