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Will Fasting
For Weight Loss Work?Will
fasting for weight loss work?
The answer is
absolutely yes.
But there is one thing you must
consider if you're thinking of fasting for weight loss...
It's
the fact that the number one problem with the approach of severe
calorie restriction (starving yourself) is that you cannot do it
forever.
Granted, you most likely will
lose weight by fasting, but when the fast is completed and the weight
is lost you have built absolutely no consistency into the way that you
eat.
As a result, most will return to their former
eating patters. The very patterns that created the flabby
state that they are currently experiencing!
A far
better solution than fasting for weight loss is to form a habitual
pattern of making smart food choices.
Now I realize
that this sounds boring to most of us.
I mean, who
wants to take the time to form new patterns?
We want
fast weight loss right now!
But here's the shocker,
the results will come just as quick, quicker in most cases, by
disciplining yourself to make consistently wise food choices.
This
is because weight loss is not simply a matter of calories in vs.
calories out. It's a matter of consuming the optimal calories
in order to give your body exactly what it needs to lose
weight.
Now obviously, fasting does not
add nutrients to the body and can't provide your body with the
nutrition it needs. This is the reason that fasting is much
better suited for waste elimination than for weight loss.
So
where do you go from here?
If you are willing to add
a little discipline to your eating I recommend that you start with the
following...
Split your day into six small
meals. During the first three meals of the day you may
consume most anything that you want, provided that it doesn't fall into
the junk-food category.
This means no...
-Soda
(diet and regular)
-Chips
-Candy
-Desserts
-Fast
food
... or any similar foods.
During
the last three meals of the day, once again, nothing that falls into
the junk food category. And during these final three meals
you must also eliminate the vast majority of your carbohydrate intake.
This
means no...
-Bread
-Pasta
...
or any other similar foods.
Now
please don't
misunderstand this, your body needs carbs to lose weight. I
am in no way an advocate for the Atkins or any other similar diet
programs. The key to losing weigh is not carb restriction,
it's
consuming carbs at the correct times.
So just to
wrap it up, fasting certainly has health benefits and I encourage you
to learn more about it. However, building a set of solid
eating habits into you day will produce far better results for you than
fasting for weight loss ever will.
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