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I think I’m gonna start a juice fast next week. I’m gonna juice once in the morning and once in the evening. Probably just for 2 or 3 weeks. I’ve gained a shyt ton of weight this past year and need to reset.
 

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Dry up your insides, brehs
We are talmbout some legitimate dumbshyt in this thread. They could just employ a version of Ramadan fasting throughout the year and it would be much safer.
 
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We are talmbout some legitimate dumbshyt in this thread. They could just employ a version of Ramadan fasting throughout the year and it would be much safer.
You literally have no idea what you’re talking about .

Fasting is safe you have enough fat on your body to sustain .

Goodness y’all say anything .

Just because you don’t have the mind or will power to do it doesn’t make it unsafe .

I’ve been fasting on and off for three years now it’s amazing .
 

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You literally have no idea what you’re talking about .

Fasting is safe you have enough fat on your body to sustain .

Goodness y’all say anything .

Just because you don’t have the mind or will power to do it doesn’t make it unsafe .

I’ve been fasting on and off for three years now it’s amazing .
You idiot I am fasting right now for Ramadan so I might know a little bit about fasting.

You have been doing it for 3 years. Good for you. However these fasts you all are talking about can be extremely dangerous and should be approached with caution, because depriving yourself of nutrients for prolonged periods of time can be trigger health events if you are unaware of underlying health problems. Another thing about extreme fasting/diets is that they don't work long-term. Any credible physician, nutritionist and trainer will tell you the same thing. You will end up weighing more after the extreme fast/diet than you did before engaging in it. The safest and most effective way to lose weight is a lifestyle change with an emphasis on daily exercising and a diet high in fruits, vegetables and grains.
 
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Will I lose weight doing a 3 day water fasting?
Yea I loose at least 1.5 pounds a day when water fasting. I've also lost a lot of weight quickly from intermittent fasting, but it took two or three days longer to see the same results.
Found a great article that explains intermittent fasting and answered all my questions: Intermittent Fasting 101 with Dietitian Julia Zumpano

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Cassandra Holloway: So to start off, what is intermittent fasting? How would you explain the premise of it to someone?

Julia Zumpano: Intermittent fasting is just when you restrict your eating for a period of time. It can be done in many ways. Fasting can be done by the amount of hours you're not eating in a day, if it's by days in the week or it could also entail a caloric fast.

Cassandra Holloway: When we talk about fasting, is it absolutely no solid foods? Can you have some drinks on it? Kind of walk us through what are the general rules of intermittent fasting.

Julia Zumpano: Generally, fasting means that you should not be eating any solid food and also not consuming any beverages that have calories. Coffee is an exception and so is tea. They technically have five calories or less per serving, but no drink that actually has carbohydrate-based calories. You can drink water, black coffee and unsweetened tea. In some cases you can have a small amount of cream in your coffee, as long as it does not provide a substantial amount of calories or carbohydrates.

Cassandra Holloway: What about electrolyte drinks that if they have the zero carb, like you mentioned, are we allowed to drink like clear electrolyte drinks?

Julia Zumpano: Clear electrolyte drink should be acceptable for that case, yes. It wouldn't inhibit the fasting process.

Cassandra Holloway: I want to talk a little bit about the benefits of intermittent fasting. I guess, why would someone choose to try this eating style? Obviously weight loss is a big one, but why else? What are other reasons people choose to do a fasting approach to dieting?

Julia Zumpano: There have been some good preliminary studies showing that fasting can drop levels of insulin. It can decrease aging and the progression of diseases over time. It can help symptoms of metabolic syndrome. So metabolic syndrome is a multitude of factors, including high blood pressure, elevated blood triglycerides or blood glucose, elevated waist circumference, obesity, and elevated bad levels of cholesterol. There was a specific study that took patients that had metabolic syndrome and asked them to fast at least 14 hours, and then took a control group, which ate unrestrictedly. They noticed that the group that fasted at least 14 hours showed reductions in all of those risk factors. Their blood pressure came down. Their waist circumference came down. Blood sugars and triglycerides came down.

We see a lot of benefits from a fasting state, even if it's a slight form of fasting, because what happens is that our body shifts its form of metabolism. Generally our body uses glucose as our main source of energy. And what happens is when you fast, you no longer use glucose, but you tap into your body's own fat stores to burn for energy. That creates a state of ketosis, which is a similar state that we can obtain in a ketogenic diet or a very low carbohydrate diet. The state of ketosis has been shown to decrease insulin levels, decrease inflammation, and has been shown to have multiple health benefits when done properly.

Cassandra Holloway: Can intermittent fasting be dangerous or not recommended for certain people?

Julia Zumpano: Certainly. We really advise against any form of fasting when it comes to patients who currently have an eating disorder or have a history of any eating disorder. These types of diets can stimulate the eating disorder, or if the eating disorder is kind of in a stagnant stage and it's in remission, it can regenerate some of those thoughts and behaviors. We certainly want to avoid that in any form of disorder eating, history of disorder eating, and also in populations, of course, that are malnourished that need extra calories, that may have diseases or glycemic control issues that would require more frequent eating habits. With any type of diet change specifically that might affect your medications or blood sugars, you always want to consult your physician before you start the diet. Make sure you get clearance and ask if there are any ways that you can adjust medication regimen to still be able to control all the current protocols that you're trying to do to control any disease states you might have.

Cassandra Holloway: I want to talk a little bit about intermittent fasting for people who are athletes or for people who are really active. I know I tend to work out really early in the morning and I have tried intermittent fasting before, and it made me very sick, very nauseous, very just shaky because I'm so used to eating right after a workout. What's your advice for people who work out regularly who aren't used to going these long stretches with no food?

Julia Zumpano: Fasting is not for everybody. Certainly it could just be something that it's not for you. It's okay to come to that conclusion or maybe it's just not okay for you in this timeframe with maybe you have a fitness goal, like running a marathon or doing an iron man, or you're trying to meet other goals with in regards with fitness and the fasting just doesn't work with this other goal you're trying to set. And that's okay.

You can always table fasting for a later date and time, but if you still want to try it and you are doing more intense workouts, what you could do is create a fasting state, start your fasting state earlier. If the morning time is where you need to have food, try to create a fasting state, cut it out of your dinner and try to fast more after dinner, eat an earlier dinner, eat a very large lunch, very light dinner, and try to create more of that fasting block in the evening, as opposed to the morning.

Another way you can approach it is fast on the days you don't work out. So, I mean, if you're working out seven days a week, then obviously that's not going to be possible, but maybe you do take a two day break. So that's where you could create that fasting state, those two days that you do not work out.
 
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You idiot I am fasting right now for Ramadan so I might know a little bit about fasting.

You have been doing it for 3 years. Good for you. However these fasts you all are talking about can be extremely dangerous and should be approached with caution, because depriving yourself of nutrients for prolonged periods of time can be trigger health events if you are unaware of underlying health problems. Another thing about extreme fasting/diets is that they don't work long-term. Any credible physician, nutritionist and trainer will tell you the same thing. You will end up weighing more after the extreme fast/diet than you did before engaging in it. The safest and most effective way to lose weight is a lifestyle change with an emphasis on daily exercising and a diet high i. fruits, vegetables and grains.
You sound like a bytch .


Shut the fukk up nothing is wrong with going on a 7 day fast or 30 day fast .

After yes u have to change your habits because if u don’t u will gain all the weight back .

No one has to do things how u say .

People have to find out what works for them .
 

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Wellness gurus are making dangerous claims that fasting for weeks at a time can treat diabetes and cancer​

Gabby Landsverk
Aug 13, 2020, 3:16 PM


Netflix UnWell Fasting

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  • Episode four of the new Netflix docuseries (Un)Well explores fasting in its most extreme form, as adherents spends weeks consuming nothing but water.
  • Advocates of extreme fasting diets say the practice can treat health issues like diabetes and cure or prevent cancer.
  • These claims are unfounded and dangerous. Side effects of fasting can include loss of muscle tissue and unconsciousness, which can cause serious injury or death.
  • Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.
Fasting, or abstaining from food for periods of time, is one of the hottest trends in nutrition.

But some advocates of the practice take this to the extreme, consuming nothing but water for weeks on end.

Proponents, who fast for 30 or more days at a time, say the practice helps the body heal itself. That's a dangerous claim with potentially fatal consequences, according "(Un)Well," the new docuseries on Netflix that tackles the wellness industry.

While some evidence suggests fasting could have several health benefits, extreme long-term fasting isn't well understood.

There's promising research that intermittent fasting has health benefits

An episode of "(Un)Well" follows one woman, Wanda Cook, as she attempts a 28 day water-only fast to treat her diabetes and high blood pressure. Research suggests that fasting could be a promising form of treatment for people like Cook, who have struggled to manage metabolic illnesses by more conventional means.

Most of this research focuses on intermittent fasting, an increasingly popular form of fasting in which participants refrain from eating for a short-term period, such as 16 to 20 hours a day, and eat normally otherwise.

There's promising evidence to suggest this type of fasting can boost fat loss, control chronic illnesses like diabetes, and even extend lifespan.

There is less evidence for long-term water fasts

There's less research, however, on long-term water-only fasting for periods of five days or more. But that doesn't stop advocates from making astounding claims anyway.

One such fasting guru is Loren Lockman of the Tanglewood Wellness Center, a facility in Costa Rica dedicated to fasting retreats for healing.

Lockman said that his protocols can heal serious illnesses, claiming that blind people have regained their vision after fasting, and people with cancer have had tumors disappear.

"The body can heal from virtually anything if they fast long enough," he said in the episode.



 

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Fasting can cause serious side effects and has been linked to deaths

In the episode, Cook successfully completes the fast, and experiences benefits like better blood sugar control while at a medically supervised facility.

But others who have tried extreme fasting measures have not been so lucky.


One Tanglewood patient, Jonathan Kamm, died in 2011 after completing a 32 day water fast, according to an interview with his wife, Lynae Chambers.

Chambers said her husband dropped down to 92.5 pounds by the end of the fast. During the refeeding process, he became delirious and tried to leave the facility. Lockman's staff left him at a hotel, where he fell and hit his head, later dying from the injury.

In the 20th century, a "fasting specialist" named Linda Hazzard was charged with murder for promoting a strict fasting regimen that reportedly causes dozens of people to die of heart problems.

Medically-supervised fasts can be done more safely, but are not entirely without side effects — one study found negative effects of fasting include fatigue, heart problems like irregular heartbeat and high or low blood pressure, dizziness, and stomach pain.


People undergoing strict and long term fasts may also experience unhealthy weight loss, including of muscle mass, constant fatigue, and feeling cold, hungry, or moody, according to a nutritionist.

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Unproven claims about fasting can hurt vulnerable people

People already dealing with illness are especially vulnerable to outlandish claims about extreme fasting.

"A lot of people who attempt water-only fasts are people really struggling with really debilitating illness that they're not finding a lot of help for, so they're looking for something to save them," said Christy Harrison, a registered dietitian who advocates an approach called intuitive eating. "Not eating anything for weeks, months, is really dangerous and not something I would recommend."

Dr. Miriam Merad, director of the Precision Immunology Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, has published studies on the benefits of fasting, but says people should be wary of overdoing it, particularly if they have underlying health risks. Too much fasting can harm the immune system, Merad told Insider.


"The safety issue is a tough one. The public can use our literature to starve themselves to death. What we are lacking is a good definition of what is too much fasting," she said, adding that her research suggests anything beyond two days of fasting can be risky. "It's about balance and understanding the complexity of it."


 
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