A Thorough Guide to Best Practices........

There have been lots of popular articles about intermittent fasting; certainly enough to give an interested person a basic sense of the practice. This book does an excellent job of going that extra further mile, laying out the science behind intermittent fasting and providing guidance on how best to approach and engage with fasting.


After a congenial and upbeat, (and remarkably nonjudgmental), introduction the heart of the book addresses the key stages of intermittent fasting - the fasting window (length), prefast eating, breaking the fast, and the eating window. Everything is very straightforward and eminently sensible.


There are very helpful suggestions about what to eat just before and immediately after fasting, but the book doesn't have eating plans or recipes or the sorts of food chapters you usually find in a diet book. This is not, practically speaking, a diet book; it's an eating schedule book with tips about how to stay on schedule.


There is a lot of information and advice about supplements, which I skimmed over since I'm not a supplement fan. If you are, the discussion of which supplements aid and which supplements obstruct progress may be very helpful. There's also an attempt to frame fasting within the bounds of some other diet the reader may be on while eating, (keto, paleo, Mediterranean, and so on). That was a helpful and unexpected angle. (For example fasting and a keto diet are two distinct approaches to a similar end, and melding them is an interesting idea.)


So, bottom line? An excellent introduction and probably all you would need to start a successful fasting practice. The hacks and "supercharging" tips might be a bridge too far for some, but are certainly worth thinking about. A nice and thoughtfully, (and cheerfully), presented guide.


(Please note that I received a free advance ecopy of this book without a review requirement, or any influence regarding review content should I choose to post a review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)