Introduction 1

Part I: Getting Started with Fast Diets 5

Chapter 1: Fasting — Nature’s Ultimate Fat-Burning Secret Weapon 7

Chapter 2: Navigating the Science of Fasting 19

Chapter 3: Tapping Into a Successful Fasting Mindset 43

Part II: Identifying Practical Fasting Practices 57

Chapter 4: Dieting Sporadically: Intermittent Fasting 59

Chapter 5: Taking a Different Approach: The 5:2 Diet 75

Chapter 6: Micro-Fasting: The No-Breakfast Solution 89

Chapter 7: Eating One Meal a Day: The Warrior Diet 101

Part III: Your Launch Pad to Fasting: Your Kitchen and Recipes 113

Chapter 8: Restocking Your Kitchen with Foods You Can Eat during Your Fast and Meals 115

Chapter 9: For Women: 500-Calorie Meal Recipes 139

Chapter 10: For Men: 600-Calorie Meal Recipes 173

Part IV: Incorporating Lifestyle Practices for Success 207

Chapter 11: Comprehending the Effects of Fasting on Exercise and Vice Versa 209

Chapter 12: Putting Together Your Fasting Exercise Program 219

Chapter 13: Living the Fasting Lifestyle on a Daily Basis 249

Part V: The Part of Tens 265

Chapter 14: Ten Ways to Stave Off Hunger 267

Chapter 15: Ten Ways to Stay Motivated 273

Chapter 16: Ten Ways to Feel Energized When You’re Fasting 281

Index 287

Learn to:

• Get up-to-speed on the hottest fasting diet plans around: intermittent, the 5:2 Diet, the Warrior Diet, and micro-fasting
• Select the best diet plan to achieve your weight, health, and anti-aging goals
• Make 50 plus simple and delicious calorie-controlled meals

Lose weight, improve overall health, and stop aging in its tracks

Fast Diets are revolutionary part-time weight loss programs with lifelong health and anti-aging results. Here, you get expert information and helpful tips on how to incorporate the most popular fasting diets into your daily life: the 5:2 Diet, intermittent fasting, micro-fasting, and the Warrior Diet. If you want to drop a few pounds, heal a disease, fight aging, or boost or enhance vitality, Fast Diets For Dummies has you covered.

• What's all this fasting about? — find out what fasting is, why it's nature's ultimate fat-burning weapon, and how it can help you reverse disease, boost energy, and add years to your life
• Meet the Fast Diets — discover four practical fasting practices to help you lose weight, gain muscle, boost productivity, and become the best possible you (and help on deciding which one is best for you)
• Cleanse your kitchen — learn exactly what you'll need to get on your fasting journey with a blueprint that covers all the kitchen essentials you'll need to have on hand (and what you'll need to get rid of)
• Start cookin' — get 500-calorie (for women) and 600-calorie (for men) Fast Diet recipes that'll keep you on track when you're on the 5:2 Diet

Open the book and find:

• The science behind the most popular fasting options
• How a positive mindset can set you up for success
• Foods that you can eat (and ones to avoid)
• The relationship between fasting and exercise
• Calorie-controlled recipes for your modified fast
• Guidance on living the fasting lifestyle on a daily basis
• Tricks to enhance your fast
• Ways to stave off hunger