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I would say it’s called time-restricted eating. I consume all my calories in a window of eight hours during my day. Normally, I wake up with an empty stomach and I go train. I have found out that training on an empty stomach makes me sharper, because I believe that when you eat in the morning and go train, part of your brain is focusing on digestion. Now, because my stomach is empty, I feel I have more focus on what I am doing. I wish I would have known that before, but like most athletes, we have been raised in a society where they teach you,
Oh, you need protein. You need to eat a lot of protein after a workout to make sure you recuperate well. Buy this. This supplement is good. This. This. It’s a lot of consumerism. The reason we don’t hear so much about fasting is because there’s no money to make.
I realized after I started fasting that we’re overfed as human beings. That I don’t need to eat six times, or even three times a day to recuperate. And the fact that I’m fasting—my inflammation goes down, my water retention goes down, I sleep better. I don’t have those colitis symptoms, these cramps that I used to have. I feel so much better, and I’m much leaner. I’m retired now, I’m 39 years old, and physically, I look—in terms of a bodybuilding look—better than when I was 25.
If I would have done the fasting program when I was younger, it would have been amazing. I just regret that—I wish I would have known that at the time. But I believe that if someone would have talked to me about fasting at the time, I would have never listened to them because I was in that culture of consuming products. This idea that we need more protein to recuperate. I had to be sick to learn the efficiency of fasting—in order to believe in it—and I just wish I would have known that earlier in my life.
We all have different conditions, so I can't recommend fasting to
all other people. But I believe everybody should investigate fasting. They could be very, very surprised about how beneficial it can be, like I was.
I saw on Instagram just the other day that you broke a 72-hour water fast. What’s the deal with that?
I do it three to four times a year. I think it helps to detox my body. It helps to diminish the water retention, the inflammation. It helps my immune system. It makes me feel better. When you break a fast, you realize how good food really tastes and it makes you appreciate a lot more.
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