An Inspirational Fasting Weight Loss Success

For many women, losing weight is very important. Most of us are willing to do anything to get a nice body. This is because in today’s society we have made fitness a synonym to perfection. Women want to be perfect so they basically have to try to get slim. That means that if a woman is having a hard time losing weight, she will eventually start using programs or medication to achieve that perfect shape.


Other women who are already slim may try to become even slimmer. Sometimes, that extreme slimness obsession may seem scary to others, including myself. There are several ways to achieve slimness. One of the popular is getting some of those diet pills. There are many different pills that will help you achieve your goal, however, since most of those are not natural, they come with a big list of side effects. Other women choose to follow programs created by other women who claim to have achieved that oh-so-wanted perfection. These programs will cost a few dollars per month and they will teach you how they managed to lose weight so that you can do it yourself. It sounds good right? Then again, don’t expect these programs to tell you anything you haven’t heard of before. Most of them just tell you to exercise more and cut back on your food consumption. What else is new?


Well, let me teach you something for free. Ever heard of fasting weight loss? Fasting to lose weight can do wonders for you both in losing your extra weight, but also in regards to your health. Fasting weight loss is also a tradition in many religions. Well, not fasting for weight loss, but in many religions people will fast for a specified period of time.


Fasting for weight loss is as simple as just not eating for a certain number of hours during the day or for a whole day. Some fasting weight loss diet programs actually tell you to just eat breakfast and dinner. There are some food alternatives that you can use in order to make the fasting weight loss process easier, such as drinking a lot of water or juice. Juice fasting weight loss is a nice modification of the traditional water fasting weight loss because that way you also get the nutrients of the juice to help you go through the day.


Before you attempt any fasting weight loss diet, always try to research for any drawbacks that each fast weight loss diet comes with. For example, when you are fasting to lose weight you may feel dizzy because you might not be receiving enough energy from that small amount of food that you consume.


Proper fasting for weight loss is extremely important! Many women just try fasting for quick weight loss and take it overboard which can only lead to an unhealthy life style. You must be able to maintain a healthy lifestyle while you lose weight at the same time. Like I mentioned before, juice fasting weight loss can help you make it easier, but don’t try and drink juice to keep you fasting for days. Try to only fast for a day a week at the very most because if you fast more than that you will ruin your body and turn fasting weight loss to fast metabolism damage.

Fasting To Lose Weight

During the last couple of years, due to influences from several celebrities and other high profile figures, detoxification diets have almost become a trend. For some, it is pure juice fasting, others just eat a specific fruit rich in vitamins and there are those who take it all the way and just stick to water. All of those, have the exact same denominator – very little or no food. In this blog we are going to take a closer look into this up and coming fashion.

Detoxification is basically the process through which you release toxins off your body, thus detoxifying it or better yet, “cleaning” it in a way. Fasting weight loss is based on that very idea. You only consume foods that are high in fiber and a lot of liquids in order to aid your body in releasing all the unneeded and unhealthy toxins. This is why we hear all those celebrities promoting how they lost weight through fasting or how much healthier they look and feel after going through the process. Then again, we can’t just follow every word coming out of their mouths, can we? There are a few things we need to consider before taking ourselves through the fasting process.

First of all, we need to evaluate if such a diet would be effective for ourselves as individuals. Then we need to question the validity of all the amazing stories we hear on TV, and last but not least, we certainly have to consider the safety of such an intense diet plan, or better put, “no food” plan. These questions are very complex and as you will read throughout this blog there have been many ongoing debates on whether fasting weight loss is really what it’s made out to be by the media.

There are some that claim that fasting weight loss can lead to dehydration or that through fasting you will harm your digestive system. Others that believe that fasting only leads to weight loss due to the fact that you release water out of your body, and finally many that support the idea that fasting weight loss is only temporary and it will not help you maintain your new weight due to harming your metabolism. None of them, however, ever claimed that fasting won’t make you lose weight. That’s one of the few scientifically proven facts. Stick with me and I’ll show you what I have found through my research on fasting weight loss.

Remember, I am not a professional or anything, I am just like you. Nevertheless, I have been researching fasting weight loss for a while now and this is why I feel confident to share my conclusions with you. I will be looking forward to any comments or questions that you might have through reading my articles.

Best of luck,
Maria Falouri

Fasting Weight Loss - A Review

Fasting, which many people believe to be one of the most effective ways to lose some weight is in fact the most widely adopted weight loss method. But with fasting, what you ultimately do is starve yourself which is not desirable. Moreover, like many other weight loss plans you seem to gain back all the weight that was lost in no time. Furthermore, you find it difficult to control and manage your food habits. In fact, when fasting, you are making yourself drift away from your normal habits and thus it is just not an ideal solution to the problem of obesity.

It has been said for ages that you need to eat less and exercise more to lose weight, and the words fasting weight loss have been hand by hand for a long time. But fasting is not the perfect solution to the problem of obesity as there are many disadvantages to it. If you keep on fasting for a long time, you will eventually make your body vulnerable to many diseases. One example of such health problems is kidney stones where you will suffer an unbearable pain lasts for many days.

Sometime ago, a popular pop singer made an appearance on one of the most famous talk shows, where she admitted that she lost a lot pounds while on a diet where she would only drink juices. There are many of us who try to blindly follow the footsteps of celebrities, but we have to be aware of a few facts before we begin following that example. The first thing we need to be aware of is our own body. That specific singer was pretty young, and younger people have more flexible bodies. Secondly, even she admitted that she had some problems with her behavior when she was on diet. And finally, she gained back all the lost weight as soon as she stopped fasting.

The above example just points out the fact that fasting is a great way to lose weight in the short run. It is one of the most effective ways to get your digestive system to work properly. Thus fasting for a day or two is always recommended. But when it is prolonged, you tend to get irritated for no cause. Moreover, in the long run, you will regain all the weight that you lost and thus fasting becomes ineffective. Apart from this, you miss out on most of the vital nutrients like vitamins, minerals and proteins from your diet and thus it is not considered a wise option for a prolonged amount of time.

The research showed that a person who abstains from food for about 24 hours on regular basis (monthly or weekly), carries some beneficial qualities. For instance, asthma patients who fast regularly have better airway function than the others.

It is very common to hear the paradox that in order to lose weight, one must never stop eating. Some say that the fasting for small intervals of time will never help people in their conquest to burn the body fat. Moreover, they say that fasting would only stop the person form losing weight in the future.
Some claim that the above argument is completely biased, and it is said only to increase the sales of some major production companies. However, recent studies have proven otherwise. These short-term regular fasting really does help a person lose weight.

To question the issue, a research was recently conducted by a select team of specialists and nutrition experts on a group of athletes and body builders. Their research pool consisted of about twenty elite powerful athletes were selected for this examination, whose metabolic activities were observed and studied very closely, under various weight loss programs for about a month. These scientists, closely observed how the body responded ‘before, during and after’ every experiment. Most of these experiments showed some surprising results, which were completely opposite to the ones that they expected. The main question was: ‘What happens to the body if the person starves?’ It was found, that their routine was not disturbed during these fasting sessions even after about a month.

This was really amazing, especially since their research group was elite athletes who have to stay on top of their game 24/7. However, these results were questioned by some experts. There were mixed views amongst the nutritionists, where some felt that dieting is an easy way to cut the excessive calories and lose weight at a faster rate, and others stood against it. They thought that fasting is not meant for each and every person. It is completely dependent on the body of the person in question.

My personal opinion is that both sides have valid points… so the best thing to do is to consult with your doctor before getting into fasting.