Here's a repost of a blog post I wrote for another site two years ago about my experience during a fast. Accompanying the increasing popularity of Paleo/Primal lifestyles is the concept of Intermittent Fasting (IF), a feeding schedule which consists of extended periods of fasting followed by a feast which occupies a short time period. Don't eat for a long time, then refuel hard. The key is the pulsing cycle of feast and famine, flooding the body with nutrients then an abstin

Weight loss diets are constantly evolving and reiterating themselves in different forms. The Paleo diet, which derives its name from the era in which we started to use stone tools extensively and start to become more spiritual and artistic, has emerged and become so popular that the dichotomy of "paleo hunter-gatherers vs grain-eating, non-carnivorous modern beings" separates the masses. Like every trend, the uptake was slow (the Paleo diet has been around for a while), but h