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Intermittent fasting is a major lifestyle change for everyone. Before you commit to taking the first steps or just diving right in, you may be interested in discovering the basic steps of making major life changes. The three basic steps for change are:

1 Know yourself.After you do that, you can grasp what you need to change and be able to gauge how much you’ve changed. You’ll be figuring how to take a personal inventory and how to set SMART goals that I discuss in Chapter 2. Take baby steps and focus on achieving small goals every day.

2 Take away the knowledge in this book as power.Find the wisdom that for you is most relevant and leave behind the rest of the words that don’t help you.

3 Practice what you’ve read.Imbibe the principles and carry them out in your life. Fight back against procrastination and inactivity and vigorously apply the knowledge you have acquired.

Life is complicated, and intermittent fasting simplifies it. Food is expensive; with intermittent fasting, you save money. Shopping, cooking, and cleaning up meals is time consuming; intermittent fasting saves you time. These benefits are what make intermittent fasting so popular among the life hacker crowd. Life hacks are strategies or techniques adopted to manage one’s time and daily activities in a more efficient way. Adopting life hacks is all about eliminating life’s manifold frustrations in simple and ingenious ways. Take your first steps of change by hopping on the intermittent fasting bandwagon and start today to sooth your brain by mitigating some of life’s stress.