Water fasting

[Miriel]

Yeah, just ignore Quin who has a awful new screen name.

As someone who has fasted before let me say this, it is NOT a solution for weight loss. It's just not.

I will say that I felt remarkably good while fasting. I have trouble with insomnia and the whole time I was on the fast, I slept like a baby and had a lot of energy throughout the day. Bizarre, but I felt really good. I also loved the test of willpower. And it really wasn't even that hard for me, and I'm someone who adores food. I was able to be around people eating without being all that tempted, and I also cooked for other people while fasting. It was an interesting thing to try. My Dad has been sporadically fasting for as long as I can remember, but purely for religious reasons.

But any weight you lose while fasting is going to be water weight, or muscle weight. You will NOT lose fat. And anything you lose, you will gain back. It's not a long term solution and it isn't even a short term one. Once you start eating again, you will gain back the weight IMMEDIATELY.

I cannot repeat this often enough. It is NOT a weight loss solution. It's not, it's not, it's not. But psychologically, it might be a kick in the butt for you. You will either realize how much unnecessary food you put into your body, or (and this is really common) you will eat even more after fasting. I know that there's a lot of people who fast, and then follow up the fast by eating all the favorite foods they missed while fasting. There is a good chance you will end up gaining weight.

I would really encourage you to just learn more about health and nutrition. Because that is the ONLY long term solution, and the only thing that really works.

I think the problem here is that you keep looking at everything from the surface level. Quick fixes and tips and tricks. It's not enough for you to know whether or not you should eat peanut butter. You need to understand food, calories, protein, etc on a more basic and broad level. So really, educate yourself on nutrition. How your body metabolizes food, what food is good/bad for you and why.