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Is fasting helpful for Weight loss

The word “fasting” seems to be the most difficult word for lots of people. In this modern world, everybody wants to eat everything to live. They doesn’t bother about the calories they intake. So, doing fasting is difficult to most of them.

Fasting is one of the methods in loosing weight but it brings only temporary weight loss. We can go for long fasting by taking some low calorie content food for few weeks. There is an another problem in carrying long fasting ,as our body requires essential nutrients to perform several functions and due to this fasting our body cannot carry these functions effectively, which may cause severe illness and health related problems.

The major problem with fasting is that once we give up fasting and restore eating normal diet will regains all the crashed weight .That means we are gaining more weight than we lost during fasting process.

So, long fasting doesn’t work, only periodic fasting helps in real time to lose weight safely and healthily. Periodic fasting is nothing but the process of stopping meals once in a week. Doing regular fasting doesn’t give permanent satisfaction in losing weight. So, plan only for periodic fasting.

There are many advantages in going for periodic fasting, it helps in increasing the metabolism rate
at constant speed and also helps in removing toxins from the body.

Reducing weight loss rapidly causes protein deficiency and illness due to lack of proper metabolism rate in the body. Our body needs some calories to burn to perform some regular tasks like heart pumping, digestion and blood regulation process, so if we go for fasting, our body fails to perform these tasks effectively and attains severe illness.

Many health related problems like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, gout, and thyroid and gallbladder disease can be caused due to calorie deficiency.

Fasting can be carried once in a week. Over fasting will definitely causes the above mentioned problems.

Follow these methods to plan a proper periodic fasting to lose weight permanently: periodic fasting is comprised of three parts, the manual preparation of fasting, the actual fasting process and fast breaking.
Manual preparation for starting periodic fast: For performing this task you should prepare physically and mentally to face the whole day without food and water. Without proper determination you cannot plan fasting, so plan a day before the fast to take nothing during fasting. By this proper planning you don’t face hunger during fasting and helps you to continue this process for the whole day.
Actual fasting process:
During the actual fasting process don’t try to do more work outs which cause some disadvantages in performing the fasting process. During fasting process concentrate more on intellectual work rather than doing physical work. It definitely helps you.
Fast Breaking: after the successful finish of fasting you can go for you regular diet by starting the day with some lemon juice or glucose water, as it helps in removing toxins from the digestive system and after that you can have your break fast and continue with your day to day routine work.
Sustainable and balance weight loss program ca be achieved successfully by planning this kind of periodic fasting for three to four times in a month. By this fasting method you can attain excellent metabolic rate .This kind of fasting really helps in removing toxins and helps in increasing stamina and strength to the body.

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