Fasting?

Midna wrote: Not that OP is obligated to be detailed, but OP was vague about her reasons other than saying it was "for her health" which leads me to believe this may not be done for legitimate reasons. There is nothing healthy about putting your body into starvation mode through the deprivation of food and nutrition. Her body needs fuel.

Your body won't go into starvation mode in 3 days, let alone a week. It takes a lot longer than that time actually. Your body will feed off of its fat and vitamin reserves until they are depleted.

I want to try intermittent fasting

I fast before I do my low carb low fat, high protein diet. I water fast for three days to get rid of my cravings for sweet and salty foods. Works for me. Everyone is different.

I fast for religious reasons. It makes it easier that way to me, because when I fast for personal reasons, I almost always fail. I agree with the poster F8 who said you can fast other things as well. One thing I like to tell myself is that it's only temporary. And the benefits are great!

Edited by iluvmihair - May 05 2013 at 4:01am

Carmensworld wrote: Anybody have any experience with fasting? Im doing a three day  fast and today was my first day.I did cheat and eat two grapes today but I figured it was ok since they are about 90% water.It's been a really hard day since I have roasted chicken in the fridge and brownies in the kitchen. I will incorporate green smoothies tmrw then eat solid fruit on the third day. If anyone has had some experience with this please lend some advice .