Let’s face it, for those not lucky enough to be backflipping out of bed before sunrise, the first caveman instinct is usually a butt scratching ‘me hungry, need food’. After all, breakfast is the most important meal of the day, right? Wrong.
Loading your stomach with a high-calorie, carb-dense fuel is more likely to make you crash faster than a bitcoin bull market than it is to wake you up.
Interested in feeling wide awake, alert, energized & more productive? All without a gut full of Nutella waffles, buttery pancakes or Chocolate Rice Krispies? Introducing ‘intermittent fasting’, the leaner, healthier, cheaper, time-saving, waistline-trimming morning routine that will transform your life, productivity & physique.
In this article, I will explain how to circus whip your metabolism & eliminate Tony the Tiger's morning gut growls.
Ladies & gents roll out the red carpet for the comprehensive weight loss & biohack blog; take notes on how you too can begin losing weight & feeling ‘grrrreaat!’ with intermittent fasting.
So what the hell is intermittent fasting (IF)?
Very simply, skipping breakfast & eating your first meal around lunch time. That’s it. There are no fancy diets, IOS apps or online community forums needed to start doing this. Just stop eating that first meal of the day, you do not need it & will not even miss it once you adjust your body clock to start eating at noon. Here’s how…
Why it’s called fast-ing not slow-ing
Look I get it, hell I’ve even been there myself. FOR YEARS, I’d wake up, starving...
Then I’d smash down porridge oats, soaked in full-fat cow's milk, with chopped banana, raisins, cashew nuts & free-poured Tescos own brand bees honey.
This was my daily 1200+ calorie morning routine for the first 3-5 years of my creative industry career, yet I couldn’t figure out why in the name of Christ I was brain dead for the first few hours of work despite the 2 cups of strong ass black coffee I’d chug to keep my eyes open. I couldn’t figure out why I had such painful bloating & gut churning, office clearing pants rippers so early either. I also couldn't figure out why I had a pot belly despite 6 gym sessions & 2 Muay Thai classes a week. It didn’t add up.
Getting the wheels in motion first thing in the morning can be a grind, most people will (as I did - for years), blindley down energy drinks, pick at office biscuits, kitchen snacks, & scratch their heads wondering why their cravings have them by the balls (or ovaries).
The ‘slimming’ black T-shirts begin to fool fewer & fewer people as the old stubborn love handles slowly morph into muffin tops & cankles.
Beyond the physical slippery slope you can feel yourself sliding down, the constant brain fog, inability to concentrate & falling asleep at your keyboard is a recipe for written warnings, meetings with HR & queuing for benefits cheques.
But I’m hungry damn it. What’s the solution?
Entertain this idea for just a second, what if you were able to just NOT eat breakfast? That’s it. Seriously. Nothing more to it than that. Just stop eating first thing in the morning & eat your first meal around noon. Hand to god, it’s that easy dude.
Intermittent fasting facilitates the achievement of fitness objectives much faster by concentrating energy on the breaking down of fat instead of processing sustenance.
In other words you run on fat not the food in your stomach. Temporarily tippy-toeing your body into a state of ‘ketosis’ (where you run on body fat not croissants), increases hyper focused mental clarity & turbocharges productivity in those early morning hours when most people are feeling sluggish from massive blood insulin spiking & carb-crashing bowls of chocolate milked Coco-pops.
Intermittent fasting is an increasingly popular lifestyle choice for those looking to not only improve their health & wellness...
But also their waistlines, bank balances & 'ooh-la-la' on date nights.
There is only upside to fasting. Think about it. Cutting out that first meal of the day:
Saves you time - no more screwing around against the clock, burning the toast, leaving messy crumbs & Marmite stains all over the counters.
Saves you money - one meal less per day to pay for that’s up to 33% off your monthly grocery bill.
Is healthier for your digestive system allowing your body a break from digestion improves gut health, prevents IBS symptoms, candida outbreaks, SIBO & trapped gas.
Cuts out on average 750+ calories each day - anyone who trains & tracks their calories will tell you how difficult it is to burn 750 calories from exercise alone. You would need to train until you vomit for almost 2 hours to even come close to burning that amount of calories. Skipping breakfast has literally the same waistline-trimming benefit as putting yourself through sheer hell in a gym each day.
Makes you mentally sharper than a Tarantino samurai sword. Temporarily entering a state of ketosis each day allows your body to run on natural indigenous ketones creating hyper mental focus & flow state clarity.
Exhibit A. Famous Fasters
Still not convinced? Don’t take my word for it, there are way more influential, higher rolling & more successful big hitters out there that live by this daily diet discipline.
High performance, boosting productivity & simply getting more crap done each morning is maximized by stepping into a fat-burning zone of hyper-focus achieved only through fasting. Fasting can be the key to unlocking new heights of cognitive capacity & expansion of mental bandwidth & stress resilience. From UFC commentators & retired navy SEALs to red pill kickboxers, intermittent fasting is the universally accessible fast lane for mainlining the mental gasoline.
How To Take the Edge Off Appetite
Admittedly, easing into a new routine can have some early teething problems. It personally took me a week or so to adjust to, but once your body clock settles into the schedule, it ‘gets with the program’ & you won’t even miss your former breakfast feeding window. ‘A week or so? F that I’m hungry!’, hang tight dude, Dave’s got your back. Here are 3 handy hacks to help hit the ground running & take initial the sting out of the belly rumbling’s tail.
#1 Coffee or ceremonial grade cacao
Coffee or ceremonial grade cacao are natural appetite suppressants. They can be used as a morning pick-me-up during intermittent fasting since they both contain caffeine...
which increases alertness & mental focus without spiking blood sugar levels like other sugary snacks do.
The stimulant effects of caffeine not only crushes any hunger levels but also heightens the mental clarity & accelerated work rate from fasting.
#2 Nootropics
There are many completely safe, herbal & over the counter supplements available that most people (myself included) have never heard about. When also stacked with a morning coffee or cacao they will...
completely flatline your appetite & allow you to comfortably moonwalk to lunchtime without the need for snacking.
My personal favorites are 5-HTP, L-Theanine & Lion’s Mane (found in Shroomstar™ gummies).
#3 Meditate
If you can’t, learn you must. Meditating slows down your body's metabolism, heart rate & calorie consumption reducing the need for a feed.
All 3 hacks, when stacked together will have you fasting like a 4000-year-old Jedi in just 1 day.
No food on earth tastes as good as how single digit body fat feels, so unless you have such a boner for breakfasts that it’s worth sacrificing your health, performance & physical attraction level, carry on bro, power to you. See you at the beach.
The Morning Mushy Choca-Mocha
So you’ve dropped breakfast but getting out of bed is still a choir? I feel your pain, like most people kickstarting the morning momentum can be a bitch to get going, but fear not, here's a secret weapon with a twist…
Coffee and ceremonial cacao are two personal morning brews that help me get through your day with more energy & less appetite.
The stimulant effects of caffeine not only crushes any hunger levels but also heightens the mental clarity & accelerated work rate from fasting.
However, for many the stimulant effect of strong caffeine can be overwhelming, causing anxiety, jitters, crashes & sleep problems. So how do we fix this?
Boil the kettle
Break off 20-30g of ceremonial grade cacao into a mug (this works much better than regular cacao due to the higher caffeine & fat content with lower sugar levels)
Drop 3-5 Shroomstar™ gummies into the cup
Pour the boiling water over the cacao & gummies
Still well until fully dissolved
Sip & enjoy!
You’ve just created a coffee replacement with a kick, the mellow & magnifying effects of mushroom gummies have transformed your boring brew into a bucking mule. The calming & stress relieving effects of the nootropic mushroom formula remove all shakes & edginess from the stimulating ceremonial cacao, creating a perfect morning mushroom speed-ball to turbo charge your day.
Although the stimulating effects of the morning mushy choca-mocha can be felt instantly, for best results it’s advised to stick to a long term schedule. For some users the benefits of mushroom supplements requires consistent daily use to really feel the brain-gains.
Need For Feed
Take a second. Think how much time you spend per day just feeding yourself (notice how I specifically use the word ‘spend’). How many hours do you ‘spend’ going to the shop, deciding what you want, carrying the heavy-ass bags home, unpacking, preparing your meal, sitting down to eat, consuming your food & cleaning the mess up after you.
Or how much money do you ‘spend’ eating out at cafe’s, restaurants, fast food deliveries or buying snacks in vending machines or corner stores.
Simply keeping yourself alive each friggin’ day absorbs an easy 2-3 hours of priceless man-hours that you will never get back.
Think about it another way, that’s 14-21 hours a week absorbed simply keeping your body fueled.
Or that’s 56 - 84 hours a month, which is a staggering 1000+ hours every year that is lost due to just feeding yourself.
Now how much would you pay to get an extra 3 hours per day to do whatever you wanted with? How much more could you get done? How much money would you save? How much better would every aspect of your life become with an extra 3 hours per day? Your career, business, relationships, love life, health, fitness?
‘But I need to eat mate, I can’t live on sunlight.’
Agreed. So instead of ‘spending’ time, effort & money on feeding, ‘Invest’ in meal prepping.
Outsourcing meal production has been the single biggest time & money-saving game changer in my adult life that’s freed up so much bandwidth I have quit my full-time job & hand built 2 companies. All because I have an extra 84 hours per month than most people.
I specifically use the word ‘invest’ in meal prepping because it literally pays you back in free time - THE most valuable commodity a human being has.
Save 2-3 hours per day, every day
Drop pounds & maintain low body fat
Maximize productivity
Remove all guesswork from meals
Have a consistent calorie-controlled diet waiting for you in the fridge
Save hundreds each month on food bills
‘But I actually enjoy cooking. I find it therapeutic’...
Show me someone who loves cooking, I’ll show you someone with a double chin & WAY too much free time.
If your time is valuable to you, you need to outsource all manual labour to free up your schedule so you can do what’s actually important, improving your life & becoming the best, most successful version of yourself (not constantly running to the store to buy bread & milk).
This blog is for those who actually want to make a change, to take control of their futures, bank balances & waistlines, plus become the highest level person that their souls waited in line to incarnate as. If that’s you, welcome to the wolfpack my friend, together we’re striving to make something of ourselves, prove a point & turn the chips on our shoulders into chips in our pockets.
If that’s not you, here’s my Pizza Hut affiliate link, thanks for the commission. My cat & I look forward to deleting your troll comments from my beachside porch hammock in Bali.
David Rees
Founder, CEO
Shroomstar™
With a forensic eye for aesthetic detail & Navy SEAL operational discipline, founder, CEO & creative director David Rees drives the strategic business vision of Shroomstar™.
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