When you start a new diet, reduce your calories or alter the ratio between carbs, fats, proteins and fibre in your diet, there’s likely to be a settling in period when you experience a few hunger pangs and cravings. This is all perfectly normal and indicates that your body is getting used to the changes. Most types of fasting protocols involve drastically reducing sugar and starchy carbs right down to a minimum while increasing good fats, to encourage the switch to burning stored fat for energy. With the right level of nutrition support, hunger pangs and cravings for unhealthy foods and starchy carbs should naturally start to dissipate.
The Brave Method encourages the use of MCT oil and hydrolysed collagen peptides (or our vegan Collagyn alternative) during the last few hours of your fast, to help provide a feeling of satiety (fullness) and nourish and sustain you through the last challenging part of your fast. You’ll soon see that with the support of products like our True Collagen, vegan Collagyn, Coffee + Collagen, Cacao + Collagen and True MCT that you don’t need to muster up extreme willpower or enormous levels of self-discipline in order to succeed, which is why the Brave Method has become the go-to support for so many popular styles of fasting.