Obese Release Asia (OB.R.A.)

DISCLAIMER: 

All information you find on the Obese Release Asia website was done through vigorous research, but I also include my own opinions and experience on any discussed topic. My opinion may differ from your opinion. Keep this in mind. Regardless of opinion, do not forget that I have achieved amazing results by following the principles discussed throughout the website and on my program. Simply put, regardless of our opinions, the results speak for themselves. 

WHAT IS INTERMITTENT FASTING?

Very simply put, intermittent fasting (IF), can be described as giving yourself a specific amount of time, where you consume all your meals. This is called an ‘eating window’. You do not consume any kinds of food or beverages that contain any calories outside of that eating window. 

The most basic form of intermittent fasting is called a 16:8 split. What that means is that you eat all your meals within an 8 hour window and then you eat nothing (fast) for 16 hours before eating again. You can eat all 3 meals within those 8 hours. For example:

Breakfast = 10am

Lunch = 2pm

Dinner = 6pm

Usually after someone has done this for a while, they will try and shorten the eating window even further and fast for a longer period. For example, the next step would be to eat all your daily food within 6 hours (6 hour eating window) and then not eat again for 18 hours (18 hour fast). This is called the 18:6 split.

You can progressively keep shortening the eating window further, for example having a 4 hour eating window and a 20 hour fast. Then you can only have one meal a day, which is called OMAD. Here you have one big meal with all your required nutrition and then fast for all the remaining hours (usually 23 or 22 hours). 

In my own experience this works absolutely wonders for weight loss and can really help to stop people from constantly spiking their insulin levels and becoming insulin resistant. Types of intermittent fasting routines are listed in the image below:

CAN IT HELP OBESE PEOPLE?

While all of this works great, my personal opinion is that this alone is not good enough. It doesn’t tackle the issues of addictions and if you are a sugar addict, you may just eat loads of sugar and unhealthy food during your eating windows, which your fasting isn’t going to help. In my opinion, intermittent fasting works best when combined with a diet that helps to reduce your insulin levels and get your hormones balanced again (such as a ketogenic diet), along with some simple exercise, such as walking. An obese person needs to teach / train their body to stop storing fat and use their body fat as fuel instead of the food they eat (primarily carbohydrates). That is why a ketogenic diet (low carb and high fat) works well for obesity. 

This combination of intermittent fasting + ketogenic diet + exercise will work wonders for anyone who is obese and serious about losing weight.