Fast Like a Girl Quotes

“You can’t be in constant states of stress and improve your health at the same time.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“Ketones have the power to regenerate damaged neurons that carry information throughout your brain, improving your memory and ability to retain new information, as well as giving you increased focus and mental clarity.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“Fasting is not like any other diet. It is not a moment of deprivation; it’s a gift you give yourself that will allow your body and brain to recover from the stressors of the modern world.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“measurement tools that I do recommend are a blood sugar and ketone meter and a continuous glucose meter.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“activated charcoal is usually found in a capsule. My favorite zeolite is CytoDetox by 180° Solution, whereas my go-to for activated charcoal is called BIND”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“Many of the hallmark signs that tell us a person’s metabolic health is diminishing are often given a label by doctors as “aging,” “genetic,” or “unavoidable.” The signs someone is struggling with their metabolic health are clear: High levels of blood sugar, triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, blood pressure, or an increasing waist circumference are all telling you that your metabolism is struggling. A classic sign of a failing metabolism that is rarely addressed is a person’s inability to go without food.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“The first is, How long is the list? Typically, the longer the list of ingredients, the more possible chemicals”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“Ketones will also go up to the hypothalamus of your brain and turn off your hunger hormone. This is a large reason why the more you fast, the less hungry you will become.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“your mitochondria are sluggish and not providing the necessary energy to function at your best, ketones will power them back up. It’s the ultimate mitochondrial reset. This energy is much different from the energy you feel when you eat. When operating from the sugar-burner system, you will often feel your energy go up and down. Ketone energy is much different; it is consistent, giving you both physical and mental clarity throughout your day.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“Increases ketones Ketones are an organic compound the liver makes when your blood sugar drops.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“the most important part of improving your metabolic health is changing when you eat, not what you eat.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“Although everyone will make this switch differently, research shows that it takes about eight hours after your last meal for your body to shift to its fat-burning system.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“The first system, called the sugar-burner energy system, gets activated when you eat. Eating food raises your blood sugar. Your cells sense this influx of sugar in your blood and use that sugar, called glucose, as fuel for the thousands of functions they perform. When you stop eating, your blood sugar drops. This slow decline of glucose in your blood triggers your cells to switch over to the second energy system—called the ketogenic energy system, or what we lovingly call the fat-burner system. Very much like a hybrid car that switches from gas to electric for fuel, this switchover is when the fasting benefits begin.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“you have two fuel systems that your cells get their energy from so you can function: sugar and fat.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“The first is to let go of the past. Any unsuccessful tries you’ve experienced with dieting are behind you. Forgive yourself. The second is to promise yourself you will never fall victim to the five diet failures again. They no longer serve you. And the third is to place your heart around this new vision of health you are about to create for yourself.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“You are powerful beyond your wildest imagination. Starting now, you can step into a new possibility.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“I want you to keep in mind your body was designed to self-heal.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“It’s easy to keep searching outside ourselves, blaming our poor health on genetics, doctors, diets, or wrong medications. But this outward blame hasn’t made us healthier. As women, if we are going to take our health back, we need to turn within.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“Common obesogens found in food include monosodium glutamate and soy protein isolates. Both are commonly found in weight-loss shakes.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“What chemicals are considered obesogens? The list is long, but these are the five worst: BPA plastics, phthalates, atrazine, organotins, and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA).”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“Remember that the next time you look in the mirror and villainize the stubborn weight that won’t go away; rethink the purpose of that fat. It’s not there to stress you out. Your body literally didn’t know how to break down the chemicals in your food, so it placed it in your fat stores so that it wouldn’t harm the organs that keep you alive. It’s a brilliant system your body has created for your long-term survival.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“When your body gets an influx of these chemicals it doesn’t know how to break them down, so it stores them as fat.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“Toxins make you fat. Seriously, they do.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“This new agitated state creates a fight-or-flight reaction in your brain, and your brain responds by releasing cortisol into your bloodstream, telling your body there is a crisis at hand. Your body responds to this crisis signal by shutting down digestion, halting fat burning, and raising your glucose levels so that you are physically prepared to handle this stressful situation. As your glucose levels go up, insulin rises to meet the new sugar demands. Once more, a surge of insulin overwhelms your cells. The crazy part is that all of this happens without a single nibble of food entering your mouth.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“Cortisol is the enemy of insulin. You can’t be in a state of stress and build health at the same time. When cortisol goes up, so does insulin.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“Once they stop responding to insulin, both the excess insulin and sugar will be stored as fat.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“Insulin is your sugar-storing hormone. Your pancreas releases this hormone after you eat a meal to escort the sugar from that meal into your cells. The more sugar-dense a meal, the greater the insulin release. A constant influx of insulin will flood your cells, overwhelming the receptor sites that allow the hormone to perform its job. Receptor sites are the gates on the outside of our cells that open up to let hormones in. The more insulin that floods these gates, the more congested these gates become—like a big cellular traffic jam. It is at this moment that your cells become deaf to insulin.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“Insulin resistance is a condition in which your cells can no longer successfully use insulin as a hormone to escort the sugar from your food into your cells. When your cells become unable to use glucose for fuel, not only will you experience a depletion in energy but they will store the unused glucose as fat.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“When you see a low-fat label on a product, quickly put it back on the shelf. Equate low fat to high-sugar, highly toxic ingredients—two things that will quickly cause you to pack on the pounds.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones

“It turns out that you train your set point, and when you eat less and exercise more you lower your set point threshold. This is where low-calorie diets failed you. Because each time you lowered your threshold, you made it more difficult on yourself to eat any other way. When you go back to eating more calories or working out less, the pounds come back on much easier because you are above your set point threshold.”
― Mindy Pelz, Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy,and Balance Hormones