Fasting for quick weight loss is generally not a recommended fat loss technique, least of all by doctors, but the fact remains that, despite being controversial, it can actually work.
What is fasting for quick weight loss? It is when a person cuts out all food completely but continues to drink water in an effort to lose weight.
You are basically starving yourself if you do this. The body has no food from which to derive its energy but instead turns to its fat reserves. The problem with this is that the body also depletes the muscle. Witness the victims of concentration and prisoner of war camps or even famine victims. You can see that they are very emaciated although the main difference is that this is forced starvation rather than chosen fasting for quick weight loss - when one can start to eat once more when the chosen weight target has been reached.
A more efficient method of quick weight loss is not to totally cut out all food, but to eat minimal food such as green vegetables, non-cream soups, water and supplementing the diet with vitamin and mineral supplements to make up for the lack of naturally occurring nutrients.
In this way, the body will continue to burn at a higher rate than had you completely cut out all food. You see, when you starve the body completely of all food, it begins to slow down to conserve energy and metabolism slows down to a crawl. If you eat minimal amounts of food, you will experience a more healthy metabolism level and better long term weight loss.
Ultimately though, it must be said that fasting for quick weight loss is really not a good idea. It puts the body under great stress including the vital organs. I do not recommend you fast for more than a day or so and it is a better idea to not fast at all.
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