Lose Weight By Fasting Once a Week ...

I developed a plan that worked really well for me. Have a read and let me know what you think....The following plan had me steadily losing 2lbs a week. I went from 220 to 170 in about 4 months.

The basic idea is to do a 24-36 hour fast once per week. I ended up liking it so much on a spiritual level that I also added to that a longer fast of 5 days.

Here's the tips...


(1) Fast on a days when you have low stress. Makes it easier, I dont think I could do it while working. And limit your physcial activity on fast days this is very important. Unless you are used to it I advise just laying about the house your first time, of course others may need something to do to take your mind off eating.

(1a) Very important - good supply of water, drink lots of it while fasting. When hungry, drink.

(2) Begin fast late at night, like say 10pm. By the time 10am comes around you already done 12 hours! And your body has gone past the really hungry pain feeling during the night. At night your body goes into a mini fast, so you are working off the tail end of that.

(3) Fasting is supposed to be really good for you ( weight loss, lowers your blood pressure ). I started off one 24 hr day per week, expect your body to show much resistance the first time you do it, you might get strange pains, light headaches etc...( I personally never got headaches )...and you may notice your sense of smell as in food has increased in sensitivity.

(4) Customize fasting to suit you

(5) Some people fast as a way of life. I was skeptical, but after seeing the results and also forces your mind to look inward or work in a different way. You are literally changing your body chemistry. I've gotten some interesting insights into my own life on fasts. Once I get down to the weight I want I may continue fasting once a week, or maybe a bit less.

(6) If you feel inordinatley weak or huge headaches, immediatley get off the fast.

As a retired exercise / weights guy I can tell you. This fasting works better than when I used to hit the gym. Combine that with gym and you'll be shedding the pounds like anything. I'm sure the heat this summer will also help.... I'm currently working on a bit of a modified routine combining fasting with some minimal resistance lifting on non-fast days to keep strength up, generally I dont exercise anymore.

8 weeks along I've lost about 20+ pounds. Usually fasting days I feel great....my longest span yet has been this latest fast at 45 hours and hoping to make it through the night I've read somewhere that its good to do a once per week fast (24hrs ) and then throughout the year a three longer fasts.

There may be a lot of naysayers, I go with what works for me. This may not be 100% accurate, but while fasting your body has no food energy because you are not eating, so it has to go directly to the fat stores.

Curiously fasting has opened my mind up to my own personal relationship with food, there were a lot of things that were not right about my attitudes towards it. Since beginning fasting I eat a lot less generally and generally choose healthier foods....but also continue to snack, but in smaller amounts now. And these mental alterations are only some of the benefits of fasting that I found.