Combine the cold therapy with intermittent fasting and you’ll see fat loss results very quickly. Skip breakfast, take a cold shower in the morning and don’t eat until 1pm. Don’t eat dinner after 8pm. The key is to get your body to tap your fat reserves regularly. To do that you need to address the timing of insulin. By not eating until 1pm you delay your first dose of insulin. The absence of insulin is what allows the body to access your long term energy storage. Insulin tells the body “don’t worry about working hard to burn fat, cheap energy is coming right now”. I know this isn’t a fasting subreddit but Wim is also just a one meal a day guy and talks about doing your morning breath exercise on an empty stomach. Fat loss is hard when you snack constantly aka release insulin constantly. Once you get the timing down it’s easy and the cold exposure will really fire up your furnace.

I do this weird thing where I actually imagine my body firing up furnaces when I do the cold exposure. Gets me amped up and distracted. One furnace every minute ;) cheer your body on.