Question about water fasting?
Im considering water fasting for a couple of reasons- lose weight and detox your body. Ive never done that before. Is it really healthy? When I come off the fast, and eat normally again healthy foods of course, wouldnt I put on alot of weight? Seems to me that If I was in starvation mode, my body will store all the fat it can when I do eat just in case I starve it again. What is your experience on this matter? How many days should I fast? Some say start slow only a couple of days. Others say you should do it more than three days, then your body will use its own supply of nutrients to keep going. Its so confusing.
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I would not recommend a water fast. You can however do a modified juice fast and feel the results if done properly. I say "feel" because the weight you lose will be water weight and it will come back. As for the starvation mode question, I don't know when it kicks in but I do know that you will NOT lose fat while doing a fast. Fasting should never be a means of losing weight.
You're going to be starving and feel like utter crap. Now, does this sound like something that is good for your body? I just read an article that stated the human body isn't this big dirty thing that needs to be cleaned out. We have body parts that work quite nicely to remove waste and they don't need 'help'. On a water fast you will lose weight, but as soon as you put a solid piece of food back in your mouth you will just as quickly put on all the weight again.
Doesn't sound worth it, does it?