Are you thinking of fasting to lose 20 pounds? If so, you may be wondering how much weight you can lose by doing this. But this isn't the only thing you'll need to know about fasting to lose weight. Here's the scoop:
How Much Weight Can You Lose by Fasting?
You can lose quite a bit of weight by fasting. You may be able to fluctuate as much as three pounds in a day with some manipulation of foods and fluids. The only problem is that continuing to fast this way may make the number on the scale drop but that won't be good news for you. That's because you'll be losing muscle weight.
That muscle is the very thing burning calories for you when you're sitting on your butt. Losing muscle will directly cause your metabolism to slow down. Then you'll gain more weight back (as fat this time) because you now have to do more physical activity to burn what you used to burn without thinking about it.
What Are You Fasting From?
Whether or not fasting works to get 20 pounds of fat off of you (and not muscle) depends on what you're fasting from. Fasting from soda, sugar, candy, fatty meats and alcohol can help you drop a lot of fat quickly. Do this while you greatly increase your water intake and your jeans will have a lot more room in them a lot faster.
When you're thirsty, your brain thinks you're hungry and you get cravings which make you miserable. That is, unless you give into them and eat a gallon of ice cream, but then you feel miserable from guilt. Save yourself the trouble. Drink tons of water all day and have only 100 or 200 calories from your favorite drink, food or whatever each day. Then you'll scratch your itch and still use weight.
Use the calorie counter (to the left) to figure out what kind of pleasure foods you can have that add up to 100 or 200 calories. Then you'll lose 20 pounds quickly, be happy the whole time and be able to stick to your eating plan for good.
Get the pounds off as fast and safely as possible. Then keep them off for good!