Have you ever heard of intermittent fasting? Businesswoman and model Nagila Coelho, 42, knows the technique very well. She reveals that she goes up to 20 hours without eating to prepare to parade as drum godmother of the Acadêmicos do Tatuapé samba school at the 2017 carnival.
“Now I’m doing intermittent fasting to arrive at Carnival dry, with a very slim body. It’s super fashionable and the most famous people are doing it. It involves alternating short periods of fasting with longer periods of normal caloric intake. I usually do it for 20 hours but it can be done for 14 to 24 hours. Most fasting is done at night, while sleeping, as sleep is the body’s natural time to detoxify and restart metabolic hormones”, details the blonde.
Nagila Coelho explains that the starting point is to eat less frequently, which could mean two meals a day within an 8-hour window.
For example, at 10am and 6pm. The fitness muse who shone in several auditorium programs and was a member of the Banana Split Group, however, doesn’t stop eating some “nonsense”.
“When I feel like eating something different, I don’t overindulge. I eat a little piece and I’m satisfied. I’m not much of a sweet eater, I don’t miss eating junk food and I’ve gotten used to it, but I can’t stop eating a brigadeiro, a chocolate, an ice cream…”, she says.
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“I have very privileged genetics and people can’t understand how I have such a dry stomach, eating things whenever I feel like it. The difference is not to overuse the quantity and have a way to burn it.”
“In addition to intermittent fasting, I do boxing, swimming and weight training. If you eat and don’t do any type of exercise, it stores and becomes fat. I avoid eating at night because you don’t waste it and you rest before sleeping. That’s where fat accumulates”, adds the fitness muse who starred in several auditorium programs and was a member of the Banana Split Group.
Nagila Coelho highlights that privileged genetics run in the family. “My grandmother, my mother’s mother, is Indian. My mother is 61 years old and has no cellulite or stretch marks. Genetics runs in the family, but I have always taken care of myself since I was young. I’ve played volleyball and I’ve loved sports since I was a child. I have always exercised, taken care of myself and have been very vain since I was a child.”
