Intermittent Fasting and Type 2 Diabetes: Desk Jockeys Caloric Intake

Being a desk jockey in the business world can sometimes feel like a contact sport. The problem is that you are often fighting with yourself and your own health. When we are busy making corporate headway and blazing new lucrative adventures we may be putting our health second. There is always just one more project to complete. 🏃

I have been in the corporate world and experienced my share of busy times when there wasn't enough daylight and candlelight hours to get all those important things done (i.e. try going to grad school, working full time, managing a family, and all the other stuff.). That is one of the reasons why I got into health. I said to myself, "Time to adjust or it will catch up to me!"

The three biggest struggles are....

1. Too many calories. The one thing I struggled with was snacking while working. 

2. Wrong kinds of food that encourage high blood sugar and general weight gain.

3. Finding the time to exercise. We are busy and exercise takes a back seat to other pressing issues.

If you can solve the first two problems then you will start to notice the healthy improvements quickly. While the third is good for health the first two will encourage general positive nutrition. Paying attention to eating will help you maximize your work outs (Some people really get into it and calculate their macros. Right now I'm in a cut up stage so I'm watching my calories, protein, carbs, and fats.)

In the study presented they are finding that intermittent fasting down to a very low level of calories (840 per day) leads to a significant drop of Type 2 Diabetes risks. That is good news because if you can get through a period of fasting you will improve your health (Once you get used to a low food situation your body will adjust. Its like your stomach shrinks. Everything tastes a little richer.)

I believe that moderate fasting has a positive influence on recalibrating our biological system by removing many of the negative outside food influence that the body is having a hard time keeping up with. At the same time, I suspect that simply just lowering your food in take 500 calories a day would have a similar effect as long as your body is forced to consume the fat for energy (Check with your doctor.).

Desk jockeys should work out to improve their health and there are lots of ways to incorporate that into their daily routines. First and foremost, they should think about the food they eat and the amount of calories they eat. If you can't manage that way, consider intermittent fasting.

Intermittent fasting can reverse type 2 diabetes in half of patients within three MONTHS, study finds