Is Fasting the key to weight loss?

Ill go by my actual experience.

I dont take laxatives to increase my bodies digestion rate, read what I wrote. I take magnesium oxide twice per year to clear out my digestive tract. Once it is clear my digestive system works more efficiently and expels waste quicker. I dont take laxatives to help me digest quickly.

As for your "grow up" comment - I think it is reasonable to ask how the knowledge someone has is working out for them in real life. I recently had a full medical and scored perfectly on everything despite having 15 -20lbs further lbs to lose. People are free to dispute my personal experience but my health status reinforces that my vitamin and supplement routine along with my twice yearly waste removal and exercise regime are working.

Colon health is extremely important. Colon cancer is not a trivial matter.
 
and yet your 'cleansing' has nothing to do with colon health. If anything, you are likely to cause harm.

What's the harm in colon cleansing?

Just an interesting read. you are being delusional about your health if you believe that the human body has all these toxins and left over waste. If you wish, I could overload you with actual medical studies and impartial sites giving information.

Gastrointestinal Quackery: Colonics, Laxatives, and More

Detox Diets: Cleansing the Body
 
Actually, it was more about pushing the detox myth as well (and more specifically) the personal attacks.
 
Jericho said:
Actually, it was more about pushing the detox myth as well (and more specifically) the personal attacks.
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You gave me negative rep for posting my experience and having a different viewpoint to yours - forums are for discussion not for you to desperately attempt to exert some authority.

There were no personal attacks.

I will do the OP the service of not cluttering their thread with any further offtopic posts.
 
ForRealThisTime said:
As for your "grow up" comment - I think it is reasonable to ask how the knowledge someone has is working out for them in real life.
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When someone is over weight the hardest part is having the willpower and determination to change their lifestyle. It's not a judge of how much knowledge they have of personal health. The opposite is true, simply because someone may be struggling to lose weight, doesn't mean that their points should be neglected.

Personal attacks like your are not something that this forum wants, or even allows. If you want to make remarks like that, find somewhere else to post.
 
Fasting and cleansing are just psudo science rubbish and you need to be really careful when getting involved in this sort of nonsense, there are often backed by doctors who aren't real doctors, and the research they do is bias and usually paid for to get the result they're after (not real science)

What fasting will do in a diet is cause your body famine response to kick in, your body reacts to this by severely slowing down your metabolism and releasing less of that energy in to your body to be spent during the day.

It is true that a calorie deficit is the real backbone of losing weight but your deficit of calories is the difference between the amount your body takes in as food and how much it spends as energy. The amount it spends as energy (your metabolism) can change by massive amounts.

You might think that eating 500 cals per day is more weight loss than say eating 1500 cals per day, but the fact is that 500 cals per day would cause a severe starvation response and your metabolism drops sharply to adapt.

What this means is your maintenance calories (the amount of calories you need per day to maintain your current weight) actually drops.

For example your maintenance calories on a normal diet might be 2000 cals, and you're on a diet of 1500 which is 2000-1500=500 cal deficit.

If you drop to something too low like a 500 cal diet you might find that your maintenance drops to 1000 cals, which is 1000-500=500 cal deficit.

You end up no better off, however the fasting problem comes when you then go back to "normal" your body maintains that starvation response for a time after you've stopped fasting, this means that what would normally be a maintenance of 2000 cals might remain 1000 for a time after, this means when you're eating your maintenance of 2000 cals you're actually running an excess of like 1000 cals per day.

This is why a lot of dieters finish their diet and immediately gain loads of weight back, because they've been suppressing their metabolism with extremely low calorie intake and their body has become used to using less energy.

There's no cheating, you need to come down in size STEADILY, with a just 1-2 lb weight loss per week at max, if you try and fast and cheat by going extremely low calorie you're just setting yourself up for failure.
 
I know this is a really old thread, but I'd like to share this video with anyone who's interested:


Basically, fasting (for many days at once) has been proven to be way more effective for weight loss and overall health. It doesn't slow down your metabolism and it doesn't eat up your muscle mass the way that calorie-restrictive diets do.
So I think it's worth a shot.
 
Fasting is much beneficiary in 1 day a week. It helps to decay excess fat from your body, but you also take liquid and fluids in the fasting day.
 
Peace,
It's true that fasting -- that is, eating little to no food -- will result in weight loss, at least in the short term. But the risks far outweigh any benefits, and ultimately, fasting can cause more harm than good. In my opinion and experience, it is far more beneficial to stick to a consistent diet/lifestyle change then to fast because consistency is key and how long and how often can you fast to see long term results. keep in mind no two peoples body systems are exactly the same and results may vary but we are all entitled to our opinions.
 
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