Are you contemplating adding intermittent fasting to your low-carb, keto routine with the hope of intensifying your weight loss or speeding up your metabolic improvements?Then you just might be wondering how best to break your fasts. What should you eat first? What gives the best results? What do you need to watch out for?If you are new to fasting, or have had trouble in the past coming out of a fast, this guide can help you plan and execute the best ways to begin eating again after short or longer-term fasts
Historically, the word ‘breakfast’ described the first meal of the day — no matter when that meal occurred. It wasn’t until the 15th century that the word started being recognized as the meal you consume shortly after waking.
Nowadays, with intermittent fasting gaining popularity, the meaning of the word ‘breakfast’ is going back to its original roots. Breakfast for the intermittent faster is the meal consumed when you choose to break your fast, be it 6:00 AM or 6:00 PM.
Fasting, especially for religious purposes, has been a common occurrence for centuries. And generally, throughout most of human history, not much concern was given to how to break the fast.
However, in an age of poor dietary advice, when we are told to eat all day long — and when hyper-palatable highly processed food abounds — it can take a little more planning to resume eating in a way that achieves the most physical comfort and most effective results for your long-term health and weight loss goals.
Every night when we stop eating and then go to bed, we go through a short-term fast until our first meal of the next day. Depending on when you ate dinner and when you consume your first meal after you wake up, you can easily go through a 12 to 16-hour fast — with no physiologic change to digestive functions.
