I've been eating Paleo for about a month now and have dropped 10 lbs and now I am ready for my water only fast. I'm male 48 yrs old 5'8 currently 265 lbs. I have done a lot of research over the last few months about water fasting for weight loss and overall health. What are your feelings about a day fast? Is that too long to start out with or is it fine? I am happy to have stumbled upon your website and have been trying to introduce Paleo/water fasting to my wife.
She has serious bloating of the belly and steady weight gain over the last year or so. She just refuses to kick the Sugar/Carbs that is making her miserable. I hope to show her with my water only fasting then Paleo that it can be done. I initially wanted to fast to get quick results but I know the spiritual power of fasting.
It seems like after praying last nite i am tempted to eat but i am not interesting in breaking the fast, that well technically started today. I want to water fast until the 12th of next month to give myself a couple of days to get back to eating some solids so i wont be sick on vacation. So i am looking at approximately days.
I just wanted to post because i felt empowered and i am excited about how i will feel and look in 14 days. But also i am a person who needs immediate gratification so i am hoping i see results because i know i will see my spiritual ones. My question is i am drinking water but i am afraid i am not drinking enough.
Does it slow the process down if you don't drink enough, i didn't remember seeing it in your blog. Also can i put cucumbers and lemon in my water. And if i don't get filtered can i continue to drink the water that comes out of my fridge or is that filtered? And what is wrong with bottled water you said you didn't drink it, but it is truly the most available water too me. thanks for your post and your energy. This is the third time I've encountered this page in the past 12 months and it's always after I google search for juice fast. I've also done intermittent fasting, paleo, juice fast, low carb, more fats, less sugar, everything.
I've done a three day water fast but it was in the middle of my juice fast when I wasn't feeling well and it just happened. Here, I'd like to focus on strictly a water fast and all the health benefits afterwards. I am 100 pounds overweight and while kickstarting that weight loss would be awesome, I'm really truly trying to heal my body.
There's so much thats wrong with my body right now, and it's a domino effect and I really want to focus on healing. It bums me out when I read the comments and a lot of responses are about dropping weight for a wedding or holiday or special event. There's so much more benefits to fasting than just losing weight. Thank you for putting this page up, sharing your results, and taking the time to reply to the comments.
I'm currently doing a 72 hour water fast, just water that's it. I'm just over 45 hours now and I'm feeling a bit tired, I do feel quite relaxed too though. The first day has been the most difficult so far, it was the last time I did one too. Today has been better, I had quite a bit of energy earlier today which was nice and I felt quite bright too.
I didn't wake up with any hunger pains this morning, it's mainly when I'm cooking my sons meals that I start to feel really hungry. I've escaped upstairs just now to try and get away from the smell of the food. I was thinking about maybe going on to a 5 day fast but this is only the second one I've done and the last one was a few years ago now.
How Much Weight Can You Lose In A 2 Week Water Fast Although there may be some health benefits to water fasting, reducing overall calories is just as effective for weight loss, and is likely to be safer. Now reading up on fasting (which is the reason I came about your great website!) I just completed a 72 hr water fast after a 2 week travel cruise! Except for feeling chilly at times, there was no strange bowel movements except for the occasional stomach grumbling. On the 2nd to third day my finger dexterity was not up to par and I didn't feel like hitting the gym.
Drank lots of coffee during that time and little bit of salt with water. I lost 6 lbs but after breaking the fast and eating it was only 2 lbs which is online with what you say 0.5 lbs of fat a day. My experience started when I had a difficult tooth extraction.
Basically it kept me from eating regularly for two weeks. I never even knew I was already fasting. Anyway dropped 10 lbs in that two weeks. Felt great so I said might as well carry on what I was doing which was an occasional 24hr fast and limited intake of food. Lo and behold 8-9 weeks later I was down 20lbs. I'm 5′ 9″ and 59 old so I'm still a bit on the over the recommended weight.
All my elevated blood pressure, sugar levels went to normal! The amazing thing compared to my other diet plans etc. was all I lost was fat! Went from size 34 to size 32 but my shirt size is the same. I'm another fasting nerd and practice daily 23-hour fasts, with twice-monthly 48-hour fasts. What you said about feeling mentally superheroic–spot on. I schedule my 48-hour fasts for a tough weekend at work, and my mental acuity and mood are GREATLY enhanced during that time.
So much so that I'm planning on going 72 hours this weekend, which led me to Google 3-day fasting, which brought me to your blog. Will post back if I clean out my garage, lol. My husband just did 5 days and his carport was very creatively cleaned out by day 5. He didn't feel too hot on day 5, either, so won't be going that long again–it stopped feeling healthy and started feeling weakening. I'm currently on day 4 of my first 5 day water fast. Reading the complete guide to fasting book.
So far so good, although my hunger didn't go away completely after first 2-3 days. I do feel lighter and can do exercises easier. I am pretty cold though, most of the times.
I also didn't have any bowel movements yet. In fact, on day 1 I drank 2 tea spoons of epsom salt on water, hoping to get cleaned out before getting into the fast and nothing happend. I wonder if I'm deficient in magnesium and my body just absorbed it?
I'm drinking filtered water and occasionally carbonated mineral water and had some grains of salt here and there when the hunger was strong. Now I'm worried I sabotaged my autophagy process by eating salt, as it was the main reason I was doing this fast. I recently stumbled across this blog post about water fasting, and I have a few questions for you. I'm a 5'6″, 160 lbs, mid-20 year old female, who was recently diagnosed with PCOS, hypothyroidism, and pre-diabetic. I have always maintained a healthy and active lifestyle; eating majority of fruits, vegetables, meat (I'm not a big sweets person either), and exercising 3-5 times per week. I also already drink on average half a gallon to a gallon of water per day.
Unfortunately, my conditions have become so severe that it was necessary for me to go on three different medications. I have been participating in intermittent fasting for the past 4 months, and I'm constantly looking for natural ways to better my health and potentially get off these medications. You will likely lose weight on any diet if you eat less than 910 calories a day. But losing 10 pounds in 3 days is both unlikely and unhealthy.
To lose just 1 pound of body fat, you need to reduce your daily calories by about 500 a day for a whole week. That's giving up 3,500 calories over the course of 7 days. To lose 10 pounds in 3 days would mean decreasing your calorie intake by 35,000 calories in just 3 days! The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics recommends a slow and steady weight loss of no more than 1/2 to 1 pound a week.
Otherwise you are losing muscle and water, as well as weakening your bones. You also are much more likely to gain it all back. If you want the health benefits of water fasting, always follow this diet with medical supervision.
For healthy weight loss, you need to burn more calories than you consume. This balance can be achieved with a well-balanced diet and regular exercise. Its now Wednesday and I've lost 4 pounds!. My body shape sounds a lot like yours, 5'4 and curvy. I started at 178 and now 174 but people thinks that I'm smaller.
I've eaten in my 8 hour window tons of veggies, chicken, white rice, peanut butter on crackers and tuna fish. I've also eaten a handful of M&M's because I'm a chocolate and peanuts fanatic. I'm particially doing for the weight loss but mainly for my blood pressure. Im not starving during the 18 fasting hours. I do the Shaun T rock-in body DVD's, 5 days a week.
It gave me some ideas on changes I would like to make in order to fully succeed. I am doing this for blood sugar, blood pressure and possibly stabilization of my hormones and menstrual cycle. Though I started coming off a not ideal diet of 3 days of plane food (and all the fun 30+ hours of flying does to the system with a 7 hour time difference). Despite this I feel good and have lost 7.5 at my 2 day weigh in. I am significantly overweight so may loose more than anticipated being at 225 at the start.
I though I would maybe loose 5-8 pounds over 5 days as generally other than plane food and when I travel 30% of my time I eat fairly clean . I'm into my 66h of my first 3 days water fasting. I have to say that apart form first evening when I had a pretty annoying headache due to caffeine withdrawal, I'm not really struggling a lot. The only problem is that I feel constantly like freezing and my hands are extremely cold which is unusual for me. I've done it only with water with a bit of salt and baking soda in it. What helped me was the tip with the salt in the water.
