The Easy Power of Fasting for Weight Loss

Fasting is a powerful and easy tool for weight loss, I think… but it has such a tremendously bad rap!  I don’t understand it, but it’s something I do very effectively – because I love eating and love being healthy! Not because I’m an anorexic with terrible attitudes towards food.

Traditionally fasting is something decreed by different religious traditions, for various benefits – not generally weight loss (religions didn’t start in times when obesity was a problem!).  Political fasts made a statement, but also weren’t about health.  Fasting today is being looked at by nutritionists and food and exercise scientists primarily as a way to cut calories, while examining how to maintain ideal energy levels and physical fitness.

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Intermittant fasting is the way of fasting I’ll be describing – it’s when the faster (what a nice title – who doesn’t want to be faster) consumes no calories for 20 to 24 hours, one or two times a week.  This allows you to remain on your normal work out schedule while super jump-starting your weight loss – 2 days worth of food is a LOT of exercising – but by keeping your workout routine, you keep your metabolism happily whirring along.

Your two days of fasting won’t give you the license to eat WHATEVER you want the remaining days – lower calories overall doesn’t mean the remaining ones should be unhealthy – it’s still your food for the week!  Also, don’t eat to make up for the one or two days of ‘missed’ calories – these are calories you didn’t need to be consuming in the first place!  Eating normally is a habit you should stay in for the rest of the week – and I found the urge to eat more to be very week, and got easier as I practiced.

You might be worried about your energy levels during fasting – but don’t be!  You will honestly find it equally as easy to stay on top of things, give good physical effort to whatever you’re doing, and you might even find yourself with a little more energy to go the extra mile!  Fasting isn’t only about reducing calories – it also gives your digestive system a chance to stop grinding, and that’s something you can feel.  If you’ve ever fallen asleep after a big meal… well, fasting is the opposite of that!  Now, if you stretched your fasting out to days – well, then you’d probably run out of gas.  One day = no big deal. Too much longer then that, and you’re eating parts of your body you don’t want eating.  No cannibalism allowed! (literal or internal)

The power of fasting is immediately apparent once you start doing it – but take it slow.  Say you’ll do it for one day a week for 3-4 weeks.  It sounds rediculous that watching what you eat (don’t eat) for 1/10 of your month could make a big difference – but it will.  I haven’t ever seen the need to bump up fasting to two days a week, but people with a lot to lose might find it a perfect way to do so.

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