Delay, Don't Deny Quotes

“I’ve read the theory that our bodies don’t recognize these artificially grown and developed items as “food.”  (Doritos, though delicious, are not picked from a Dorito bush.)  Because of that, our bodies are always in search of nutrients, which makes us hungrier.  We eat and eat, yet never feel satisfied.  So:  our portions are bigger, we eat out more, we reach for convenience foods, and our food supply has changed.  Our hunger hormones are on overdrive because we have tried (unsuccessfully) to restrict what we are eating and we are eating processed junk.”
― Gin Stephens, Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

“Intermittent fasting...the diet for people too lazy to cook a bunch of meals during the day!”
― Gin Stephens, Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

“Intermittent fasting... the diet for people too lazy to cook a bunch of meals during the day!”
― Gin Stephens, Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

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― Gin Stephens, Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

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― Gin Stephens, Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

“Science of Skinny.”
― Gin Stephens, Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

“Keep your expectations realistic, and don't expect to lose all of your excess weight at a fast pace. Your body may need to heal some underlying hormonal issues first, before it's ready to release pounds. Give yourself time, and be patient.  Many people find that they lose inches before they lose pounds.”
― Gin Stephens, Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

“In order for you to find lasting success, you have to lower your insulin levels so you can burn fat during the fast.”
― Gin Stephens, Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

“A sweet taste=insulin release, even in the absence of calories.”
― Gin Stephens, Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

“If you snack all day until dinner and only eat dinner, you are NOT living the OMAD lifestyle.  If you drink diet soda all day until dinner and then eat dinner only, you are also NOT following the OMAD lifestyle.  You are on a calorie-restricted diet, because you are constantly spiking your insulin.”
― Gin Stephens, Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

“The key to the OMAD lifestyle is that you are following the guidelines for fasting most of the day, and you are eating only one real meal most days.  That doesn’t mean that you have to limit yourself to one plate of food or eat within a one-hour window.  The last thing I want to do is shovel in food so I can meet some arbitrary deadline.  Once again, that is diet mentality, and not a pleasant lifestyle.  I no longer time my eating window most days, and it is an incredibly freeing way to live.”
― Gin Stephens, Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

“Here’s the thing, though.  Once you spend a few weeks following an intermittent fasting lifestyle, your hormones get back into balance, and you once again become in tune with your satiety signals.  You don’t need to count calories,”
― Gin Stephens, Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

“One caveat—don’t expect your satiety signals to be perfectly in tune at first.  It takes a while for your body to learn to listen to your hormones again.  You may even find that you tend to binge-eat for the first week or two.”
― Gin Stephens, Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

“If you keep insulin as low as possible in your body, you are able to burn fat.  If insulin is high, your body wants to store fat.”
― Gin Stephens, Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

“intermittent fasting is a lifestyle.  It isn’t something that you start today and then end when you get to some arbitrary “goal weight.”  Something you start and then stop is a DIET.  Intermittent fasting isn’t a diet—as I said, it’s a lifestyle.”
― Gin Stephens, Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

“Here is how the magic happens:  because you have PLENTY of stored energy right there on your body, AND you can finally access it efficiently, your body does not get the signal that you are in an energy deficit.”
― Gin Stephens, Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

“In order to lose weight successfully, you need to figure out how to lower your insulin levels so that your body can access your stored fat effectively.”
― Gin Stephens, Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

“Lots of circulating insulin = efficient fat storage and very little fat burning.”
― Gin Stephens, Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

“Remember—the more insulin you have circulating, the easier it is for you to store fat and the harder it is for you to access stored fat.  Your body becomes very efficient at stuffing all of your fat cells full of energy and isn’t accessing any of your stored fat for energy.  This leads to excessive hunger, because the foods you eat get stored away as fat so readily”
― Gin Stephens, Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

“To oversimplify for the sake of basic understanding, every time you eat or drink certain things, your body releases insulin in response (unless you are a type 1 diabetic).  Insulin’s job is to help your body regulate your blood glucose.  When you eat, your blood sugar is available to be either burned as energy or stored in the body as glycogen—think of it as quick energy for later that is easily accessible.”
― Gin Stephens, Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

“Google “Of Whooshes and Squishy Fat”
― Gin Stephens, Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle