No Willpower to Start Intermittent Fasting? | DrEricBergDC

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you know you need to look at fasting as an  exercise for your willpower what is willpower  

willpower is the ability to control your thoughts  and your actions to do what you want it’s like the  

power of self-control it’s your personal  power to overcome things like temptations  

cravings addictions your willpower helps you  stick to something but it’s kind of like a  

muscle that needs to be developed and strengthened  and you can do this through intermittent fasting  

so really when you do intermittent fasting  it’s a exercise or a workout to improve your  

willpower your ability to stick to something  now some people will say well i don’t have  

the willpower to do intermittent fasting but  fasting increases your ability to do more fasting  

so really you just need to do it and get started  and then it’ll get easier and easier and easier  

why because it removes the barriers to do fasting  in the first place it gets rid of your hunger it  

gets rid of your cravings bad habits because  you’re it’s a training exercise just like when  

i was in the army i had to go through a series  of training exercises that improved my discipline  

and my willpower same thing with wrestling and  playing the guitar so you go through a series  

of exercises to build up a new ability and then  the only barrier probably would be left would be  

your love for food and i can’t help you with  that one but there are some things that you can  

do if you’re new to my channel to start with to  start to get into intermittent fasting so you can  

greatly enhance your willpower number one start  intermittent fasting without keto so pretty much  

just eat what you normally eat but just add in  fasting okay skip your breakfast so that way  

you have two meals no snacking you can add mct oil  which is a fat that will greatly help your ability  

to fast there’s something called the bulletproof  coffee you can have in the morning i’ll put a link  

down below of how to do that and that’s going to  definitely help you fast through the morning then  

your first meal will be at like 12 second meal at  six and right there that’s going to be your start  

then as you do it things become easier you add  keto you lower your carbs what’s that going to  

do lowering your carbs will make it easier to fast  longer because you’re not going to add sugar in  

there to influence your blood sugars and then  the last thing i would do is i would take all  

the foods that you really love like as far as the  desserts and the junk food and find a replacement  

for them i have a lot of ideas i put a link down  below of the most common things that people love  

and how to make those keto friendly and lastly  i want you to do me a favor i want you to rate  

your current willpower on a scale from 0 to 10  0 being no willpower 10 being amazing willpower  

because i want you to then come back to this  video after two weeks of doing fasting and take  

a look at that number you’re going to find that  your willpower is off the charts and willpower  

is going to really help you in many areas of  your life it’s going to help you follow through  

it’s going to help you complete things and  it’ll help your confidence thanks for watching  

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