Advanced Fasting Challenge in Three Steps

Are you ready to take intermittent fasting to the next level, see results, push through a plateau, and find radical healing? It's time to step it up a notch and breakthrough to the new you.

(Note: if you’re brand new to fasting, you need to go back to The Three Week Challenge for beginners. Learn how to nail the clean fast, eat more protein at meals, cut seed oils, and more. Then come back to this post.)

If you have a grasp of the basics of intermittent fasting, now is the time to make this fasting thing permanent and life-changing.

If you’ve done a bit of fasting, and you liked it for a while, but then you lost momentum and stalled out, then this challenge is for you.

If fasting seemed to work at first but then you weren’t getting the results you expected, so you stopped or limped along half-heartedly doing it some days and not others, then this challenge is for you.

There are three objectives to this challenge:

1. Commit to Three Months

2. Practice Consistency

3. Choose Your Own Advanced Fasting Adventure

Step 1: Commit to Three Months

Why three months? Because the most common reason people quit is they didn’t stick with it long enough to get the results that make one love fasting for life.

Many of the life-changing results—increased energy, reduced carb cravings, better sleep, a clearer mind, reduced inflammation, a more positive mood, appetite correction—don’t even begin until after 3 or 4 weeks. Then it takes several more weeks until you feel the full effects.

As I mentioned in last week’s post, you need to go into autopilot and trust the process—for three months.

Don’t overthink how you feel, and whether or not you like it, and what others think, and how you’ll navigate the cruise next August, and yada, yada. Just buckle down and press on. You can evaluate the whole scheme come March 31st.

Step 2: Practice Consistency