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Fasting Rocks
Thanks Kitty and upndown..how you getting on after your holiday upndown? Getting back into the swing of things? Earliest doctor's appointment I can get is next Friday...
Said I'd take it though as totm is bad enough without having an additional few days for funsies mid month too. Fasting today and then will do my last September fast on Monday before weigh in on Wednesday. Going winter coat shopping tomorrow. Last year's were a size 20/22 hoping this year I will be wearing a 14 :faint2:
I read a blog online which is about a woman losing weight using SW. Have been reading it for a while and most of the time I think she talks a lot of sense...however...she had a go at fasting. Calling it a fad diet. She said it was an unhealthy diet that would cause you to lose muscle and lean tissue. And that it would damage your metabolic rate and for the rest of your life you would need to eat less and less calories to maintain. What utter drivel. Your body is quite happy to use the food in your system and the glycogen stores in your liver followed by your fat stores before it would look at muscle when only fasting for 36ish hours. Studies have shown that people who did regular fasting lost body fat even if they weren't obese to begin with. It has also been proven in studies that it is one of the best fat burning diets while protecting lean muscle. I'm tempted to email her and say "look I've lost 81lbs since last November purely by fasting 2/3 days a week. I also eat perfectly well on non fasting days and any time I've eaten at my projected TDEE I've never had trouble maintaining so my metabolic rate would appear not to be damaged. What studies have you read to back up your blunt opinions? If you've never fasted don't try and say you are an expert on it and a fasting guru and give people misinformation!!" *calming breath* I probably won't do it though as some people refuse to admit they could possibly be wrong.
Said I'd take it though as totm is bad enough without having an additional few days for funsies mid month too. Fasting today and then will do my last September fast on Monday before weigh in on Wednesday. Going winter coat shopping tomorrow. Last year's were a size 20/22 hoping this year I will be wearing a 14 :faint2:I read a blog online which is about a woman losing weight using SW. Have been reading it for a while and most of the time I think she talks a lot of sense...however...she had a go at fasting. Calling it a fad diet. She said it was an unhealthy diet that would cause you to lose muscle and lean tissue. And that it would damage your metabolic rate and for the rest of your life you would need to eat less and less calories to maintain. What utter drivel. Your body is quite happy to use the food in your system and the glycogen stores in your liver followed by your fat stores before it would look at muscle when only fasting for 36ish hours. Studies have shown that people who did regular fasting lost body fat even if they weren't obese to begin with. It has also been proven in studies that it is one of the best fat burning diets while protecting lean muscle. I'm tempted to email her and say "look I've lost 81lbs since last November purely by fasting 2/3 days a week. I also eat perfectly well on non fasting days and any time I've eaten at my projected TDEE I've never had trouble maintaining so my metabolic rate would appear not to be damaged. What studies have you read to back up your blunt opinions? If you've never fasted don't try and say you are an expert on it and a fasting guru and give people misinformation!!" *calming breath* I probably won't do it though as some people refuse to admit they could possibly be wrong.
Will catch up later on tonight 
