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<blockquote data-quote="Finsky" data-source="post: 1145599" data-attributes="member: 269388"><p>There can be many reasons..including medical and religious. I fast because I have spare 'energy' stored around my waste line that doesn't get used =loosing it is VERY hard when you are diabetic AND have PCOS. Low carb diet on its own doesn't achieve quite as much results that I would like...or it is VERY slow progress. Add fasting to the diet and hey presto, things start moving.</p><p>Saying that, weight loss is added bonus..I have made all the changes to get my blood sugar levels under control.</p><p>When you fast..you body will need 'food'...when I doesn't come from your diet, it has to come from somewhere...it start drawing out from its own fat reserves. That is what nature has intended it to be..fat reserves are there when times are hard and food not readily available. But in modern times...food is everywhere and easily available...we eat all the time > weight gain and other health issues....or I should say..CARBOHYDRATES are everywhere, particularly very processed form carbs. All carbs raise our blood sugars causing body to release insulin to deal with those sugars. Insulin also is turning all/unused carb energy into fat stores in our bodies >weight gain. If you have lots of insulin in your system...more eaten energy is stored..when your body is in 'storage mode'..it sends signals that you are hungry, even if you have only recently eaten. So you eat because you truly feel hungry> more insulin produced..and so it goes on in circles.</p><p>During fasting your insulin production is minimal..once you body gets used to fasting , one doesn't get those hungry messages same way because insulin is not there playing the game in such a quantity nor is the 'storage' issue present as one will use up what is available.</p><p>That is very simplified way of putting some medical reasons for fasting...particularly with type 2 diabetics. But there are many more ways fasting will affect medically for other illnesses and conditions. Religiously it is seen body's way of 'cleansing' itself..and it is very similar way seeing it medically too. I see it way of giving one's body a break to get over come some 'hard days of work' and re-setting the system...or at least make some issues ease off a little.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Finsky, post: 1145599, member: 269388"] There can be many reasons..including medical and religious. I fast because I have spare 'energy' stored around my waste line that doesn't get used =loosing it is VERY hard when you are diabetic AND have PCOS. Low carb diet on its own doesn't achieve quite as much results that I would like...or it is VERY slow progress. Add fasting to the diet and hey presto, things start moving. Saying that, weight loss is added bonus..I have made all the changes to get my blood sugar levels under control. When you fast..you body will need 'food'...when I doesn't come from your diet, it has to come from somewhere...it start drawing out from its own fat reserves. That is what nature has intended it to be..fat reserves are there when times are hard and food not readily available. But in modern times...food is everywhere and easily available...we eat all the time > weight gain and other health issues....or I should say..CARBOHYDRATES are everywhere, particularly very processed form carbs. All carbs raise our blood sugars causing body to release insulin to deal with those sugars. Insulin also is turning all/unused carb energy into fat stores in our bodies >weight gain. If you have lots of insulin in your system...more eaten energy is stored..when your body is in 'storage mode'..it sends signals that you are hungry, even if you have only recently eaten. So you eat because you truly feel hungry> more insulin produced..and so it goes on in circles. During fasting your insulin production is minimal..once you body gets used to fasting , one doesn't get those hungry messages same way because insulin is not there playing the game in such a quantity nor is the 'storage' issue present as one will use up what is available. That is very simplified way of putting some medical reasons for fasting...particularly with type 2 diabetics. But there are many more ways fasting will affect medically for other illnesses and conditions. Religiously it is seen body's way of 'cleansing' itself..and it is very similar way seeing it medically too. I see it way of giving one's body a break to get over come some 'hard days of work' and re-setting the system...or at least make some issues ease off a little. [/QUOTE]
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