Ignore Hunger Waves While Fasting

Fasting can increase your motivation to exercise—find out why!

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0:00 Fasting spikes motivation to exercise
0:10 Hunger waves
1:14 Cravings vs. hunger
2:06 Ghrelin and exercise motivation
2:50 How to bulletproof your immune system

In this video, we’re going to talk about some benefits of fasting for your motivation to exercise.

First, I want to talk about hunger waves. Hunger waves are surges of hunger throughout the day. When you ignore a hunger wave, it will go away.

Hunger waves are caused by an increase in the hormone ghrelin. Ghrelin tells your brain that it’s time to eat. However, you don’t need to eat every time you feel hungry.

If it’s around lunchtime and you feel hungry, you can often ignore your hunger for a couple of hours, and you’ll stop being hungry. Knowing about these waves of hunger can help you better prepare for your intermittent fasting plan.

Over time, hunger waves will start to reduce, and it will become easier and easier to do intermittent fasting.

It’s important to differentiate between the sensation of hunger (cravings) and real hunger. If you start feeling irritable, light-headed, weak, or dizzy, then you need to eat because your body is hungry. An increase in ghrelin is not real hunger.

Keep in mind that fasting will help decrease your hunger. You’ll also find that you consume less food when you break your fast.

When you eat, you spike insulin, which makes you hungry again shortly after.

A study on mice showed an increase in motivation to exercise when they were hungry. I’ve seen this same effect in humans too.

So if you experience a spike in ghrelin while fasting, ignore the hunger signals but don’t ignore the motivation to exercise.

Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:
Dr. Berg, age 58, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan, and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.

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Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients so he can focus on educating people as a full time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, and prescription or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

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Thanks for watching. I hope this helped explain why fasting can increase your motivation to exercise. I’ll see you in the next video.