Intermittent fasting is becoming a common way to use your body's natural ability to burn lots of fat in a short period of time. Here is a list of the way fasting will turbo charge your fat loss.

• 1. Increases Fat Burning Hormones

Hormones are usually at the root of most of your metabolic functioning, and fat burning is no different. Growth Hormone is the most important fat burning hormone. Fasting turns growth hormone production into high gear with gets your fat burning furnace working overtime. Fasting also decrease insulin to ensure you can burn body fat instead of storing it.

• 2. Increased Fat Burning Enzymes

Fat burning hormones also need more fat burning enzymes to get the job done. Fasting will bump up the activity of two of the most important fat burning enzymes in your body. HSL (Hormone Sensitive Lipase) increases in your fat cells releasing fat so it can be burned as energy in your muscles. LPL (Lipoprotein Lipase) is increased in your fat cells so they can absorb the fat that is released from your fat cells and burn it. A perfect combination.

• 3. Burn More Calories

Short term fasting (24-72hrs) actually increases your metabolism and adrenaline levels. This causes you to increase calorie burning during the fast period. The more calories you burn the faster you can lose weight. The extra energy you get from the fast might actually help you through a workout or get more work done at work or around the house. When I did my first fast I was shocked at how awake and energetic I was. My fasting days are now my most productive days of the week.

• 4. Burn Fat Instead of Sugar

Fasting shifts your metabolism from burning blood sugar to burning mostly fat. When you eat a meal your body likes to burn carbs first, then fat. Any extra that your body can't burn in the few hours after you eat get stored as fat. When you fast your body has no choice but to burn stored body fat. By the end of a 24 hour fast your body is burning way more fat than a regular day of eating.

• 5. You'll Find Out Why You Eat

The most surprising benefit people report back when they start fasting is a new found

awareness of what they eat and why they eat. When you make a conscious decision to fast for a day your less than flattering eating motivations become painfully obvious. This is the first and most effective step to getting rid of bat habits for good. Knowing what your motivations are for poor eating choices is essential before you can change them and build better habits.

• 6. Builds Positive Attitudes Towards Yourself and Food

Each short fast is an accomplishment that can build self confidence and gratitude. At the end of a 24 hour fast you can feel good about your accomplishment and start feeling good about your relationship with food again. The positive empowerment from each fast builds on the last until you feel completely in control of your food choices.

• 7. Eat All The Foods You Love Guilt Free

Short term fasting allows you to lose weight and burn fat without restricting any of the foods you love to eat. With this style of eating you can consume any and all of the foods you like whenever you choose without feeling guilty about it and still lose weight. You will never again have to be sitting in a restaurant picking at a salad while everyone else at the tables indulges in their favorite entrée and dessert.