Fasting gives me a beautiful clarity.
I'm on Day 17 of my cycle, in hour 24 of my fast for today, very intentionally attempting to get to a gut healing point in this phase.
I've achieved that. 😎
Here are some of my fasting thoughts from today's experience...
I made a Reel about it, if you are a more visual person like me 😉
I'm gonna be real:
Fasting is torture for me sometimes.
I think about eating and food constantly.
But, I know the science of emotions and understand that those thoughts are because the bacteria in my gut are releasing a chemical to trigger my brain to tell me eat for survival...
The bacteria's survival,
Not MY survival.
For my survival, I need to give my body time away from food.
I need to allow my body to heal and she needs a break from digesting to do that.
And so, I Fast Like a Mama to my cycle.
The best example I have to help understand this is my sourdough baby...
If you have ever been the proud mama to a sourdough baby, then you know the "smell" of a hungry starter!
It's ripe!
And it's caused by the live bacterias in the starter off-gassing a chemical in a "starvation" response.
Our guts function in a similar way.
We have trillions of tiny microbes living in our gut + intestinal tract. And they eat off of all the yummy waste we supply it with.
When we eat foods high in SUGAR (and carbs), sometimes the "bad bacteria" can overgrow the good.
By taking time to do a 24+ hour fast when your cycle can support it, you are allowing those bad bacteria to die out, leaving good bacteria healed + thriving behind.
This is how you can utilize fasting for GUT HEALING.
Then, when you're ready to break your fast, you want to intentionally feed the good bacteria, preventing the bad bacteria from releasing the "starvation" chemical to trigger your brain to tell your hands to grab the food.
To support gut healing even more, you're gonna want to break your fast with PREBIOTICS, PROBIOTICS, + POLYPHENOLS!!!
(think foods like: bone broth, asparagus, bananas, sauerkraut, low-sugar kombucha, olives, blueberries)
Feed the GOOD bacteria.
Heal the gut.
-- Ashley ✌🏻
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