Fasting

[Profileid]

There's no reason to eat nothing. You can drink vegetable juices like celery-apple-carrot or spinach-carrot mix and be fully nourished. Coffee will prevent you from detox and cause you to lose muscle

It's about the quickest and most efficient way to lose weight one can do. It's helped me a lot and I've been struggling to lose weight for years.
I haven't ate in about 8 hours and I feel pretty good. Better than I do when I eat. After the second day or so, you don't even feel hungry.

Research finds that fasting “flipped a regenerative switch” leading to new blood and new immune system creation – in just 72 hours

Results from a recent study fall into the category of “remarkable,” as it was described.

Researchers from University of Southern California were looking for extra immune help for chemotherapy patients, and found an answer for everyone. For chemo patients, the elderly, the chronically ill, even those with auto immune diseases.

Longer fasts use up the body’s glucose stores, but they also breakdown and rebuild the white blood cells – literally rebuilding a new immune system.

Prof Valter Longo, Professor of Gerontology and the Biological Sciences at the University of California explains:

It gives the ‘OK’ for stem cells to go ahead and begin proliferating and rebuild the entire system.
And the good news is that the body got rid of the parts of the system that might be damaged or old, the inefficient parts, during the fasting.
Now, if you start with a system heavily damaged by chemotherapy or ageing, fasting cycles can generate, literally, a new immune system.
By having the white blood cells depleted, it triggers stem cell based reproduction of new born immunity.

The Telegraph reports:

In trials humans were asked to regularly fast for between two and four days over a six-month period.
Scientists found that prolonged fasting also reduced the enzyme PKA, which is linked to ageing and a hormone which increases cancer risk and tumour growth.

http://www.naturalblaze.com/2014/06/...es-entire.html

[Profileid]

I'd rather say the problem is not a food, but the type of food.

Absolutely.
Advocates of fasting usually are the same ones in favor of a low carb, high fat/protein diet.

[Purohit ji]

There are better and more enjoyable ways to loose weight. Than fasting.

[Profileid]

There are better and more enjoyable ways to loose weight. Than fasting.

I found it enjoyable after the second day.
Mental clarity, feeling of self control and the lack of desire to gorge like I had before.Besides, it's good for more than just losing weight.
http://www.livescience.com/48888-int...ight-loss.html

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[Hadouken]

I will try intermittent fasting . but not the 16-8h version like szegedist does (even though I would love to) because I tried it for a few days and it gave me insomnia . I will fast 2 days for 24 hours

[Profileid]

I will try intermittent fasting . but not the 16-8h version like szegedist does (even though I would love to) because I tried it for a few days and it gave me insomnia . I will fast 2 days for 24 hours

Szededist does it too? Neat.
I've tried intermittent,but I just end up eating too much after it's over.
For me, cutting it all out for days is the only thing that works.

[Hadouken]

Szededist does it too? Neat.
I've tried intermittent,but I just end up eating too much after it's over.
For me, cutting it all out for days is the only thing that works.

not sure if that is a good/healthy method though

[gültekin]

Important thing is what you eat after the break of fasting. you must start with a good soup

[Al-Meksiki]

I usually do water fasts (consuming nothing but water) for one week or one and a half weeks at a time on a semi regular basis