Eat Stop Eat Quotes

“Another important aspect of Eat Stop Eat style fasts is that you do drink during your fasts.  During your fasts you may drink any calorie-free beverages you like. As an example, these are all drinks that would be permissible during your fast: Black Coffee Black tea Green tea Herbal tea Water Sparkling water Even diet soda pop”
― Brad Pilon, Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss

“Consider that each day in the United States, the food industry produces enough food to supply every single person with almost 4,000 calories.7 On top of that, 10 billion U.S. dollars per year goes into the advertising and promotion of this food.8 It would be a huge financial disaster for many food companies if, all at once, everyone in the United States decided not to eat for one day out of the week.”
― Brad Pilon, Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss

“Once you have gone without food for 24 hours a few times, you really start to get a feel for the real reasons behind why you eat, what you eat, and when you eat. Often times, hunger isn’t one of these reasons. Habit and emotional connection are usually the culprits. If you take this new-found wisdom, you can create a big difference in the way you eat by making SMALL, almost unnoticeable changes in your eating habits.”
― Brad Pilon, Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss

“You may also find it helpful to stay busy while fasting. Recently I had someone tell me that, “Fasting is easiest when I’m busy, I think if people’s lives were a little more exciting they wouldn’t need to eat so much to get some joy out of their day.” This statement is very true.”
― Brad Pilon, Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss

“The first and most important thing you need to remember is to drink a lot of calorie-free fluids; this will help you avoid getting thirsty, which is often mistaken as hunger.”
― Brad Pilon, Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss

“Eat less, while enjoying the foods you eat. Eat lots of fruits and vegetables, and lots of herbs and spices. And maybe most importantly, spend less time stressing over the types of food you are eating.”
― Brad Pilon, Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss

“The bottom line is that almost everyone can fast for 24-hours, but NOT everyone can do more. For that reason, 24-hours once or twice per week, separated by 2 to 6-days of normal, responsible eating and regular exercise is the Eat Stop Eat prescription for weight loss and overall health.”
― Brad Pilon, Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss

“I’d like you to perform weight training at least twice per week, and you can add in cardio-style training if you wish, just make sure you are adequately recovering from your workouts and fasts.”
― Brad Pilon, Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss

“Eat Stop Eat is a flexible long-term solution. On some weeks you may fast once, others twice. It’s all up to you and your personal preferences. Just do what works for you! To start, try one fast per week. Experiment with what times work best for you. Once you have the hang of fasting then you can increase the amount of times per week that you fast.”
― Brad Pilon, Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss

“The key is to make sure you are asleep during the parts of the fast that you find toughest. As an example, if you find the beginning of a fast harder than the end then you may want to try fasting from 8 p.m. to 8 p.m.”
― Brad Pilon, Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss

“In order to fast for 24 hours, you can simply eat as you normally would until 6:00 pm on day one, and then fast until 6:00 pm the following day. As an example, you could start your fast on Monday at 6:00 pm and finish your fast on Tuesday at 6:00 pm.  People who follow Eat Stop Eat call this a dinner-to-dinner fast. By fasting in this manner, you manage to eat every day; however you also manage to take a 24-hour break from eating. More importantly, you break the horrible habit of continuously being in the fed state, thereby resetting your metabolic balance between fed and fasted.”
― Brad Pilon, Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss

“There is one major problem with the idea of missing breakfast — it’s not actually possible. The reality is breakfast is the first meal of the day no matter when you eat it. After all, breakfast is a two-part word, “break” and “fast.” The meaning is literally “breaking a fast.” So by the purest definition of the word, your first meal after waking up, no matter how many hours after you wake up, counts as breakfast because this is the meal that “breaks the fast.”
― Brad Pilon, Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss

“The only other thing that can affect your metabolism (in both the short term and long term) is exercise or movement. Even in the complete absence of food for 3 days, your metabolism remains unchanged.”
― Brad Pilon, Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss

“So, the yin and yang of fed and fasted has been replaced by a constant fed state, where we helplessly try to figure out how to continue eating and somehow lose weight at the same time.”
― Brad Pilon, Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss

“FED — Eating and storing Calories FASTED — Not eating and burning Calories. Fasting is the simplest method our body has for maintaining its caloric balance. Store a little when we eat, burn a little when we don’t eat. Recent research suggests the problem is that we spend as much as 20 hours a day in the fed state.6 We are constantly eating and storing food and we never really give ourselves a chance to burn it off.”
― Brad Pilon, Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss

“For most people, you fully enter the fasted state using mostly body fat as a fuel, by about 24 hours since you finished your last meal. So “fasting” begins the moment you stop eating, after which you slowly enter the “fasted state.” The amount of time it takes to fully enter the fasted state depends largely on the size of your last meal, but in general occurs somewhere between 16 and 24 hours of fasting.”
― Brad Pilon, Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss

“best definition of fasting is the following: “The act of willingly abstaining from some or all food, and in some cases drink, for a pre-determined period of time.” The key word in this definition is “willingly” as it is the difference between fasting and starving.”
― Brad Pilon, Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss

“I don’t consider this method of eating a diet. It’s a way of eating that restricts calories, but can also ultimately grow into a way of life.”
― Brad Pilon, Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss

“research on nutrition and food is no longer conducted to improve our health and well-being. It is conducted for marketing purposes and as a method to get us to buy one product over another, and it is all based on us being constant consumers.”
― Brad Pilon, Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss

“Looking at the numbers above and doing some quick conversions we realize that during any given day, the amount of sugar in your blood ranges from between 5 grams and 7 grams. This is roughly the amount of sugar in one to one-and-a-half teaspoons!”
― Brad Pilon, Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss

“Within the last decade, it has been recognized that an increasing proportion of human food consumption is driven by pleasure, known as “hedonic hunger”.56 And this hedonic hunger creates many of our learned eating habits.”
― Brad Pilon, Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss