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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 859177" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>I'm unconvinced about fasting.</p><p></p><p>There's a huge buzz about it at the moment, and it may be about to have its day. Fung's work is impressive, and the 5:2 diet has had a huge mainstream following. Nothing wrong with that.</p><p></p><p>But most historic reasons for fasting had absolutely nothing to do with the reasons used today. Crop and hunting failure, or religious abstention do not, in my mind, provide historic justification for me to treat my body to a series of fasts.</p><p></p><p>I've actually used fasts before. 24 hrs, 72 hrs, a week. Fruit fasts (before I knew I was pre-D). Water fasts. Herb.</p><p></p><p>The results were not favourable. I never achieved the fasting 'high', I never stopped being hungry, I never felt well, and I lost ridiculously tiny amounts of weight.</p><p></p><p>The only fast I might consider is a fat fast because it would avoid sending my body into starvation, and it would encourage ketosis. But it wouldn't be low calorie - which doesn't suit my body. Going low calorie and fasting taught my body to switch to starvation mode and hoard fat at the drop of a hat. I've been paying for that for over 20 years. And I'm not the only person whose body reacts like that.</p><p></p><p>My 'thrifty gene' behaves as if it is on steroids.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 859177, member: 41816"] I'm unconvinced about fasting. There's a huge buzz about it at the moment, and it may be about to have its day. Fung's work is impressive, and the 5:2 diet has had a huge mainstream following. Nothing wrong with that. But most historic reasons for fasting had absolutely nothing to do with the reasons used today. Crop and hunting failure, or religious abstention do not, in my mind, provide historic justification for me to treat my body to a series of fasts. I've actually used fasts before. 24 hrs, 72 hrs, a week. Fruit fasts (before I knew I was pre-D). Water fasts. Herb. The results were not favourable. I never achieved the fasting 'high', I never stopped being hungry, I never felt well, and I lost ridiculously tiny amounts of weight. The only fast I might consider is a fat fast because it would avoid sending my body into starvation, and it would encourage ketosis. But it wouldn't be low calorie - which doesn't suit my body. Going low calorie and fasting taught my body to switch to starvation mode and hoard fat at the drop of a hat. I've been paying for that for over 20 years. And I'm not the only person whose body reacts like that. My 'thrifty gene' behaves as if it is on steroids. [/QUOTE]
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