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    Life in the Fasting Lane: How to Make Intermittent Fasting a Lifestyle—and Reap the Benefits of Weight Loss and Better Health
    Life in the Fasting Lane: How to Make Intermittent Fasting a Lifestyle—and Reap the Benefits of Weight Loss and Better Health
    Life in the Fasting Lane: How to Make Intermittent Fasting a Lifestyle—and Reap the Benefits of Weight Loss and Better Health
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    Life in the Fasting Lane: How to Make Intermittent Fasting a Lifestyle—and Reap the Benefits of Weight Loss and Better Health

    Written by Dr. Jason Fung, Eve Mayer and Megan Ramos

    Narrated by Brian Nishii, Courtney Patterson and Piper Goodeve

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    Take the guesswork (and fear) out of fasting with real-life and expert advice.

    In recent years, intermittent fasting—restricting calorie intake for a set number of hours or days—has become an increasingly popular diet strategy. While some in the medical community initially dismissed the idea as a dangerous fad, recent research not only validates the safety of fasting for weight loss but also offers compelling evidence of wide-ranging health benefits, from reversal of diabetes and other metabolic disorders to enhanced cognitive function and increased longevity.

    But for many who are eager to try out fasting, the regimen can feel a bit intimidating. After all, abstaining from food doesn’t sound like much fun. People rightly wonder: How often can I eat? Will I be able to focus at work? Will I have enough energy to exercise? And perhaps the most concerning question of all: Won’t I be hungry all the time?!

    Enter Dr. Jason Fung—world-renowned fasting expert—his colleague, Megan Ramos, and Eve Mayer, who has experienced the life-changing benefits of fasting through Dr. Fung’s program. Together, they’ve teamed up to write a one-of-a-kind guide that answers the most common questions people have about fasting—and offers a customizable program that provides real results.

    In Life in the Fasting Lane, Dr. Fung, Ramos, and Mayer take the reader by the hand and walk them through the basics of a fasting lifestyle—from the science behind fasting as a health and weight loss strategy to the real-life choices and dilemmas people commonly encounter. While Dr. Fung and Ramos explain the fundamentals of fasting and offer a customizable approach, Mayer shares her in-the-trenches perspective and hard-won knowledge as a success story who turned her life around with fasting.

    With chapters that address everything from meal planning to mental strategies; exercise to socializing, Life in the Fasting Lane is a unique and accessible guide to developing a sustainable and beneficial fasting routine that offers dramatic, lifelong results.

    Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateApr 7, 2020
    ISBN9780062988560
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    Dr. Jason Fung

    Dr. Jason Fung is a physician, author, and researcher. His groundbreaking science-based books, The Diabetes Code, The Obesity Code, and The Complete Guide to Fasting have sold over one million copies and challenged the conventional wisdom about type 2 diabetes, weight loss, and fasting. Dr. Fung is also the co-founder of The Fasting Method (www.TheFastingMethod.com), a program to help people lose weight and reverse Type 2 Diabetes naturally with fasting. His work on fasting has been cited by CNN, The New York Times, Time, The Atlantic, Forbes, The Toronto Star, and many other media outlets. 

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    • 5/5
      Good listen. If you’re new to fasting this is a great book to get you started.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Excellent job of describing the why various conditions etc. exist.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Easy to listen to and great insight. I have recommended to my friends and family.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Great book! Extremely informative and pervasive. I will try it out!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      If you're new to fasting or a veteran at this, you're going to love this book. Very practical and full of great applicable tips!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Just finished the entire book - I was introduced to Dr.Jason Fung by my fiance - who has completed various fasts including one that was 12 days long. Not only did he lose weight, what's more, important is that his mood and certain ailments had corrected themselves. This book is an extremely great starting point and the mix of Dr.Fung, Megan Ramos, and Eve Meyer gives you the various medical and sociological, and psychological insights needed to understand the benefits of incorporating fasting in your life.

      I have fasted in the past and can truly attest to most of what is claimed to be very true. I am not an overweight person, and I never have been. What I gained most from this book is to alter my relationship with food and to take seriously my health and healing my body and mind using fasting - just like it does for my fiance.



      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Excellent book full of great info and scientific knowledge. If you are new to fasting, make sure to listen to the last 1/3 of the book, but if you are getting a refresher, you can skip the how to at the end

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Great into and game plan to start a low carb and Intermittent Fasting lifestyle!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      Ok there are a few gems in this on fasting but sheeeeeeshhh! How many stories and anecdotes can you fit in one book?! Way over the top too… “I noticed the sky, how it was purple in the evening and pink at morning.”

      Also the advocation of diet preference for low carb, keto, etc (keto was voted least effective and most dangerous diet for longevity and all cause mortality recently). The beautiful thing about fasting, and consistent with Dr. Fong’s teaching, is the flexibility with food choice.

      This was not for me. If you want to go skipping through the lord of the rings version of a diet book while eating bacon and mainlining lard knock yourself out.
    • 5/5
      This book is a great eye opener . Thank you.
    • 5/5
      Amazing book. I listened to this book while going through my first month of fasting. I found encouragement and answers as I went through the withdrawals. Best of all I have moved blood glucose down significantly and have learned how to maintain a healthy blood glucose through fasting and keto dieting. Very thankful for this book as I was very discouraged with my health before starting to fast.
    • 5/5
      Interesting reading, and extremely informative. I recommend it highly. Salud!
    • 5/5
      This is a life changing book. A must read fir e wet human. Our species is on a terrible track with food and this information and science can make the difference. Please read and share with your families too!!
    • 5/5
      I liked the individual experiences shared with IF. I look forward to a future book that goes a little deeper into the “how to.”
    • 5/5
      Very encouraging and informative; the way that it was written is very pleasant to hear when is read it by the narrators, by the way, super nice voices. I would listen again!
    • 5/5
      Very helpful to me .highly recommended to any one who wants to live well
    • 5/5
      Omg!
      What a book!
      I started listening to it on Wednesday morning.
      It is soooo motivating!
      I started fasting on Wednesday.
      Looking forward to the next book and I am expecting great results!


    • 5/5
      The authors express the same problems as we daily faced
      Report challenges similar to those we feel.
      Explain to overcome obstacles.
      Make us feel we can do it.
      Truly recommend.

    • 5/5
      Great book! Great skills for life! You will enjoy it!
    • 2/5
      I found some good guidance, factual information, and new science in the early chapters, but after about chapter 15 or 16 I couldn't help but just skip through every chapter. In my opinion, maybe for me only, I found that in the late chapters it was just some unneeded baby coaching. Maybe some people need that but I hope not many adults. Two of the writers seemed to be still trying to find their way and have not reached their goals themselves, which is completely fine. They're working towards their goals which is great and maybe some of this type of coaching and helping along got them to this point. However, in my opinion, I think it's a bit too soon for them to start writing their own books. Maybe this was part of what put me off about the second half of the book. Maybe some people get comfort in knowing that the writer or coach is kind of still there with them. I would like to thank you for the knowledge that I did gain from this book. Maybe I was expecting to much. Thank you!
    • 4/5
      It's really a great book with excellent huge amount of information
      But they talked too much about themselves and some of there stories
      However, it's the best book I have ever seen about fasting!
    • 5/5
      This book helped me to understand how are bodies are natural designed for fasting. It’s not a scary punishment.
    • 5/5
      Excellent and effective book on fasting. Easy to follow with real world examples.
    • 5/5
      Great medically accurate info that is practical and easier to incorporated
    • 5/5
      Amazing and life-changing
      i love the actionable step, tips as well as brave declaration against surgeries. Awesome work!
    • 5/5
      Me ha ayudado con el proyecto de ayuno intermitente aportando una perspectiva más del día a día a lo ya comentado por el Dr. Fung en sus libros.
    • 5/5
      Great book. Very informative and clear. Different perspectives on fasting and great tips.
    • 4/5
      A very good, quick read in which Dr Fung recaps much of the scientific information available in the Obesity Code in lighter, more digestible (ha ha) language, interspersed with emotional support, tips, and stories shared by his two co-authors, both of whom have more personal and up-close experience with the topic. The result is a nice blend of friendly you-can-do-this guidance with a broad covering of the science that together serves to clearly illuminate the damaging myths, bad science, shaming biases and self-defeating practices surrounding obesity, nutrition and dieting that persist in contemporary culture.A very good read and one I would highly recommend for anyone who fasts already, is interested in fasting, or wants to learn more about the subject.