The Complete Guide to Fasting

Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting

By: Jimmy Moore, Dr. Jason Fung

Narrated by: Jimmy Moore

Thousands of books have been written about the latest and greatest diets that will help people lose weight and improve health. But a key element in any successful nutritional health program is a tried-and-true method that most people haven't thought about - yet it could be revolutionary for taking health to the next level. This ancient secret is fasting.

Fasting is not about starving oneself. When done right, it's an incredibly effective therapeutic approach that produces amazing results regardless of diet plan. In fact, Toronto-based nephrologist Dr. Jason Fung has used a variety of fasting protocols with more than 1,000 patients, with fantastic success. In The Complete Guide to Fasting, he has teamed up with international best-selling author and veteran health podcaster Jimmy Moore to explain what fasting is really about, why it's so important, and how to fast in a way that improves health. Together, they make fasting as a therapeutic approach both practical and easy to understand.

The Complete Guide to Fasting explains:

• Why fasting is actually good for health
• Who can benefit from fasting (and who won't)
• The history of fasting
• The various ways to fast: intermittent, alternate-day, and extended fasting
• What to expect when starting to fast
• How to track progress while fasting
• The weight loss effects of fasting
• How to ward off potential negative effects from fasting

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2016 Dr. Jason Fung and Jimmy Moore (P)2016 Victory Belt Audio

I never knew what insulin did. OH MY GOSH!!!

This book was a gift from my daughter who has lost 15 pounds several months ago after listening to this book. Her Husband has also listened to it and he has lost 20 pounds. They are both very trim and both are maintaining their weights by fasting.

So let me begin by saying, I started a diet on July 1st and told my daughter I was hoping to lose just 10 pounds. Not easy for a guy in his 60's.

She told me what she and her husband had done and gave me this book on July 4th. I started listening to it that very day and finished it on July 8th. As I type this, that was 3 weeks and 21 pounds ago!!! One June 30th my Blood pressure was 139/87. This morning it was 122/77.

There are a lot of books I really like but when it comes to practical life changing knowledge, I think there is only one book that has changed my life more than this one and that is the Bible.

I have never been one who fasts. I might miss a meal, but go several hours, that wasn't for me. Especially doing it for a whole day but the knowledge of how fasting benefits the body has changed my whole attitude. Before it was for a spiritual benefit that, to be honest, I never really felt. Now it is a physical benefit as well and I get its purpose.

Understanding the role of insulin in the body has been the key for me as I never knew what it did, how it was produced and it never even entered my mind it could be controlled. Dr. Fung and Jimmy Moore, who did a great job of narrating it, explained the process of how the body functions so clearly that I kept having "ah-ha" moments over and over.

For those suffering with Type-2 Diabetes, I can't imagine what you go through, but the way this book lays out the role of insulin, I think it will give you hope, I think a whole lot of Doctors should be re-thinking things.

For me, I do not have diabetes, so this process is right in my wheelhouse. Fasting is not an issue as I have always liked eating two meals a-day or even one big meal but I have always been told it was unhealthy to do that. Now I know different and even my wife who has always wanted me to eat three times a day is rethinking that old thinking.

Having been on the Adkins diet and losing 30 pounds about 15 years ago, I now understand why I gained it all back. After listening to this book (twice now), I understand now how to control the insulin in order to keep the weight off and doing that in a way that fits my schedule as I eat the way I always wanted to.

By the way, three days ago I ate at the Texas Road House with my family and had salad with extra Thousand Island dressing, filet steak, loaded baked potato, two roles with cinnamon butter and veggies and this morning I weighed less than at anytime in the last 15 years. How is that possible? Because I understand the role of insulin and that is thanks to this book on fasting.

While for me it has been easier to fast than I ever imagined, I know it won't be that way for everyone so I don't want to come across like it is super easy. All I can say is for me, this has worked, is working and I understand why.

If you are saying, "oh this is just a fad" you are wrong. This is not a fad. It is a change in the way I live my life by understanding how the body works and using that knowledge to control my weight, lower blood pressure and so many other benefits which are explained in this book,

Obviously, I highly recommend it and I will come back to update my story later as I still have 20 pound to go.

Update... It is September 8th, 2019 and I have now lost 43 pounds and am at my target weight of 195. Blood pressure this morning was 115/68. Haven't seen that since I was 20 years old. I am going to hold at this weight for awhile and then try to lose 10 more pounds.

Filled with lots of good info!

Now I understand when I did my 7 day fast (water only no supplement) Bad idea! Thanks s why I was lightheaded. So much info of how to fast properly. I feel much more confident now. Thank you Jimmy Moore and Dr. Jason Fung for taking the time and putting all the benefits and facts about fasting.

bad narrator, excellent info

narrator's voice was so boring and robotic, I played this at a faster speed to cope.

Fantastic book - everyone should read this!!

As a chiropractor I see many sick and suffering people. Changing the food intake and incorporating fasting is the second pillar of health. The first, of course, is a healthy spine and nerve system!

Life Changing Book

Excellent book that gives in depth knowledge on fasting and fat burning. More importantly, a regular fasting protocol coupled with intermittent fasting is a great and doable approach to great health and permanent weight loss.

Brilliant

What did you love best about The Complete Guide to Fasting?

This is the (huge) missing link in the global health epidemics. I am so grateful to have read (listened to) this book. I left feeling excited and encouraged. I will be sharing this with everyone I know. A must read!

Great Follow up from the Obesity Code

Jimmy Moore and Dr Jason Fung do a great job of explaining in detail how to fast correctly to lose weight, overcome disease like type II diabetes, among others. They back-up all there info with studies, experiences in their own lives, and clinics. Whenever I hear falsehoods and myths regarding fasting I am going to refer them to this book. It is the only weight loss program that has worked for me. I lost 80 lbs. and was able to go off all my diabetic and blood pressure meds. Dr. Fung has made a huge difference in my life. Thank you for being brave and bringing back fasting!

repeated Info

Would you listen to The Complete Guide to Fasting again? Why?

Great Material but this shouldn't have been as long as he drug it out to be with repeated information

Informative and easy to follow

Great book. Like Jimmy’s others, it’s well-written, full of humor and very informative. That said, it is probably written more for a beginner.

Must read for anyone who eats.

I previously read the excellent "Eat stop eat" by Brad Pilon. While that book took a great approach explaining underlying research, the eating advice skews more toward a fitness point of view. While there is nothing wrong with that, and while Pilon's approach remains my favorite;
this book is written from a more medical standpoint. It covers a wider variety of fasting types written in easy to understand layman's terms, along with many anecdotes from various contributors and case studies.