Fasting Diet for Motivation

Do you get plenty of great ideas for how to improve your life, but you just don’t have the motivation to take action?

Maybe some type of fasting diet can provide the extra bit of energy you need to get things done.

Most people I know are going to answer with an emphatic ‘yes’ to the question above. These individuals are sure to have convincing justifications to explain their lack of motivation – too much work, not enough time,too many commitments blah, blah, blah – but there are plenty of guys out there achieving amazing things despite the busyness of their schedule.

Up until recently my lack of motivation has been holding me back in life. I do get periods of high-energy but it hasn’t been enough to allow my to achieve many of my important goals (e.g. financial security). Something has changed for me recently, I’ve been experimenting with fasting (juice fasting and 5:2 intermittent fasting), and my motivation and energy levels have shot through the roof.

Fasting to Increase Motivation

I wouldn’t have believed it possible, but I’ve just had 30-days straight of feeling positive and full of energy. I’ve been able to significantly increase my work output, and I’ve still had enough spare energy to take on those extra tasks (the ones that can improve my life) that I felt too busy to make time for before – it is like the more I do, the more I’m capable of doing. If I didn’t know better, I’d suspect my wife of slipping some extra-powerful amphetamine into my coffee.

The thing that makes this month of abundant positivity and energy even more surprising is it coincides with my fasting experiments. Over a month ago I began a fifteen day juice fast, and I’m now in the second week of a 10-week 5:2 intermittent fast. It seems logical to expect my energy levels to plummet by denying myself food, but the complete opposite has happened.

Fasting to Reduce Depression

I’ve suffered from mild depression for years – it is like a black cloud always out there waiting to rain on my day. I’ve become much better at managing my symptoms, but I’d rather not have to deal with them at all.

I try to keep track of my moods, and I usually have at least a day or two a month when I feel down. I not experience low moods at all during the last month, and it sort of feels like that part of my life is over. It is hard to explain how I know this, but it just feels undeniably true – almost like how I felt seven years ago when I realized my alcohol problems were over. I’m not trying to claim that my future is going to be free from bad days – of course not – but it just feels like the black cloud is gone, and it’s not going to come back.

Fasting is No Magic Cure

I don’t want to suggest that it is just the fasting diet alone that has led to my increased motivation and reduced moodiness. I tried juice fasting and intermittent fasting last year, and I didn’t seem to get much from these experiences at all – I gave up on the 15 day juice fast after 10 days, and I quit on my 10 weeks of intermittent fasting after seven weeks.

I think what this latest period of fasting has done is given my life a much needed nudge in the right direction, and this has made it possible for other things to come together for me. I felt so great after the fifteen day juice fast, and it has created a domino effect in my life.

I feel super-positive about the future, and I’ve become full of gratitude for what I already have in my life.

I can’t promise that other people are going to experience the same results as I did, but this can be a life-changing experience. I like to look at this period of fasting as a time of renewal and that’s exactly what if feels like. I’ve been renewed, and I’m now ready to take my life to a new level.