Intermittent Fasting Made Easy: Next-level Hacks to Supercharge Fat Loss, Boost Energy, and Build Muscle

by Thomas DeLauer

This is your accessible, practical, science-backed guide to transforming your body, mind, and health with intermittent fasting.

Like any hot diet trend, intermittent fasting (IF) is surrounded by hype and misinformation. Written by nutrition and fitness expert and YouTube sensation Thomas DeLauer, Intermittent Fasting Made Easy moves you beyond how you could do IF to what you should do to get the very best results.

Known for making nutrition science cool and accessible, DeLauer gives you an action plan for maximizing results—designed with busy people juggling family, career, and everyday life in mind. It’s IF made easy and applied to real life.

Chapter by chapter, DeLauer walks you through the best practices for each of the key stages of intermittent fasting: the fasting window, breaking the fast, and the eating window. For each stage, find a checklist to confirm you’re on track as well as a troubleshooting section to make sure you are fasting in a way that supports your body and lifestyle. You’ll learn how to:

• Choose the best foods to eat (and which to avoid)
• Use supplements to support your progress
• Maximize your workout while intermittent fasting
• Avoid the most common mistakes people make
• Kick IF results into high gear by supercharging fat burning, boosting mental clarity, and enhancing sleep
• Get past IF roadblocks including mood swings, relapse, and plateauing

Also included are biohacks to level-up results specifically for women.

With Intermittent Fasting Made Easy, you’ll know exactly what to do to get the most out of intermittent fasting and dramatically optimize your life—starting now.

• ISBN10: 0760373868
• ISBN13: 9780760373866
• Publish Date: 29 March 2022 (first published 8 March 2022)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Fair Winds Press
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 256
• Language: English

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally posted on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

Intermittent Fasting Made Easy is an accessible practice based overview on intermittent fasting for weight loss, energy and muscle building by Thomas DeLauer. Due out 12th Apr 2022 from Quarto on their Fair Winds Press imprint, it's 256 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats.

There has never been a dearth of diet and weight loss books. It's a huge booming industry. What has changed radically is the science-based understanding of physiology and metabolism which has led to more specific targeted practice and plan for working *with* our bodies' and metabolism instead of against them.

The author speaks well and convincingly (and enthusiastically) about intermittent fasting and provides quite a lot of benefits of eating on a schedule: saving time (by not sitting in your car in a fast food drive through), regulating sleep patterns, gaining energy, losing weight, correcting insulin resistance, and more. The introduction covers what intermittent fasting is, and the benefits both physical and mental. The following sections cover how to get started, how to optimize results (weight loss, reducing inflammation, sleep quality, hormonal balance), and maintenance.

Although this is very much a layperson accessible book, and I found the information easy to understand, the book is annotated throughout and the source material (bibliography included in the back) comes from high quality sources.

There are no specific meal plans or food lists included here. The author presents the information and allows readers to formulate their own plans (with guidance) rather than presenting a rigid set of inflexible rules. I also liked that he says to expect unsolicited advice. Throughout the book small bullet lists of important points are given in highlighted text boxes give readers short, concise info in easy-to-remember bits.

New vocabulary and concepts are defined in the text. The book does include a comprehensive chapter annotations list and cross referenced index.

Four stars. There's a lot of good information here. Sometimes it reads a bit like an infomercial, but I enjoyed the author's enthusiasm and I also liked that he backs up his information with practice based scientific sources.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.