Water fasting on reddit, never seen such consistent posting of amazing results

[Army of One]

I always try to keep up with current trends on eating and dieting, have browsed many forums, reddits subs etc, but nowhere do I see the kind of results these people get.The overwhelming trend is the people who water fast, and truly stick to it, as in no food, just water for 7/10/14/21/28 days +, lose an insane amount of bodyfat and very little muscle.I say that from picture observations and people who have had muscle mass, bodyfat etc tested professionally before and after , which is the most minimal muscle loss I've seen from most diets.

Typically days 1 and 2 are easy, 3 and 4 the most difficult, then by day 5 hunger essentially goes.Only things you need to do it, are excess bodyfat, or your body will start burning muscle and organ tissue. Electrolytes, with potassium and sodium being all you really need, some add magnesium too.Potassium and sodium can be got with one teaspoon full of lite table salt in water once a day.And lastly obviously water, 1 litre+ a day.

People usually burn around 2/3 of a pound to a pound of bodyfat a day and keep it off once they resume eating, obviously gaining some of the water back when they introduce carbs.One guy went a year with just water and lost 300 pounds, with no negative effects on any measurable hospital test he took.Its really looking like eating anything, if you are mentally strong enough, is a complete waste of time while dieting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fasting/top?t=all

[visualizeperfection]

It’s effectiveness was well documented in early 40’s Germany. Was insanely popular, 6 Million folks lost a staggering amount of weight.

[illuminati]

Eat less - Move more - Burn more calories than you consume.
Simple - No need to reinvent the Wheel.

[Army of One]

It’s effectiveness was well documented in early 40’s Germany. Was insanely popular, 6 Million folks lost a staggering amount of weight.

Yup, I would bet from the results I've seen they lost very little muscle, until obviously due to the circumstances they couldn't stop the forced water fast once they had very visibly defined abs.At that point your body needs energy from somewhere and will turn to muscle and organs.

[Army of One]

Eat less - Move more - Burn more calories than you consume.
Simple - No need to reinvent the Wheel.

Sure, but still everyone thinks you need to eat something or you die.The visions come up of hunger strikers who usually refuse the 1 litre plus of water needed to live per day, and don't take electrolytes which can lead to heart attacks, or they get so lean the body turns to muscle and organs.

[Flexacon]

Eat less - Move more - Burn more calories than you consume.
Simple - No need to reinvent the Wheel.

Exactly. It's always the lazy fat fucks thinking their is some kinda secret short cut they just haven't discovered yet.

You didn't become fat overnight and you're not gonna lose it overnight. Also fatsos doing extreme diets nearly always falter and end up fatter than when they started.

[Army of One]

Exactly. It's always the lazy fat fucks thinking their is some kinda secret short cut they just haven't discovered yet.

You didn't become fat overnight and you're not gonna lose it overnight. Also fatsos doing extreme diets nearly always falter and end up fatter than when they started.

But if you don't need food to lose fat, and lose fat faster without any, with negligible muscle loss, and very little hunger, why bother eating?At this point eating becomes lazy if you are results orientated.

[Flexacon]

But if you don't need food to lose fat, and lose fat faster without any, with negligible muscle loss, and very little hunger, why bother eating?At this point eating becomes lazy if you are results orientated.

As I said fat people are lazy so sitting around doing nothing is second nature to them.

If you're even moderately active you need an energy source to fuel your activities and that ideally needs to be food otherwise you will end up in a catabolic state much sooner than a sedentary person.

[Dokey111]

you mean..... I won't die without food  

[Army of One]

As I said fat people are lazy so sitting around doing nothing is second nature to them.

If you're even moderately active you need an energy source to fuel your activities and that ideally needs to be food otherwise you will end up in a catabolic state much sooner than a sedentary person.

People still weight train, kickbox, run etc while water fasting.Your body is covered with usable energy, it was designed that way to survive famines.

[Army of One]

Would not hit to hit it in 21 days or under


https://www.reddit.com/r/fasting/comments/c4qps5/day_13_water_fast_1891635/


https://www.reddit.com/r/fasting/comments/f63sst/one_21day_fast_can_change_your_life/

[Flexacon]

People still weight train, kickbox, run etc while water fasting.Your body is covered with usable energy, it was designed that way to survive famines.

And they often feel a lot weaker for it and have poor quality workouts.

As said no need to reinvent the wheel.

The only merit to these types of diet is as a short sharp kick to the system to start the weightloss process. But there are no shortcuts if pharmaceuticals aren't involved

[lightweight83]

The top girl in the link, has some of the best results I've ever seen!  Assuming her after pic isn't photoshopped, she went from a fat pig covered in stretch marks to having a 9/10 body!

[Army of One]

Guy who water fasted for a whole year

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast

[loco]

Of course.  After no food for about 16 or more hours, their body goes into fasting ketosis.  After that, they'll just burn body fat, hunger and cravings start to disappear, then comes more energy, better sleep, and great mental clarity.

Long term doing this off and on, there is fat loss even without exercise.

The same can be achieved with nutritional ketosis via the keto diet, specially the carnivore diet.

[Flexacon]

Guy who water fasted for a whole year

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast

He died at 51. Not the greatest endorsement for fasting long term like that.

[Army of One]

Of course.  After no food for about 16 or more hours, their body goes into fasting ketosis.  After that, they'll just burn body fat, hunger and cravings start to disappear, then comes more energy, better sleep, and great mental clarity.

Long term doing this off and on, there is fat loss even without exercise.

The same can be achieved with nutritional ketosis via the keto diet, specially the carnivore diet.

Also autophagy and water fasting has cured type 2 diabities in some.

[Army of One]

He died at 51. Not the greatest endorsement for fasting long term like that.

People who weighed 456 pounds at some point in their lives don't tend to live long.

[Ropo]

I always try to keep up with current trends on eating and dieting, have browsed many forums, reddits subs etc, but nowhere do I see the kind of results these people get.The overwhelming trend is the people who water fast, and truly stick to it, as in no food, just water for 7/10/14/21/28 days +, lose an insane amount of bodyfat and very little muscle.I say that from picture observations and people who have had muscle mass, bodyfat etc tested professionally before and after , which is the most minimal muscle loss I've seen from most diets.

Typically days 1 and 2 are easy, 3 and 4 the most difficult, then by day 5 hunger essentially goes.Only things you need to do it, are excess bodyfat, or your body will start burning muscle and organ tissue. Electrolytes, with potassium and sodium being all you really need, some add magnesium too.Potassium and sodium can be got with one teaspoon full of lite table salt in water once a day.And lastly obviously water, 1 litre+ a day.

People usually burn around 2/3 of a pound to a pound of bodyfat a day and keep it off once they resume eating, obviously gaining some of the water back when they introduce carbs.One guy went a year with just water and lost 300 pounds, with no negative effects on any measurable hospital test he took.Its really looking like eating anything, if you are mentally strong enough, is a complete waste of time while dieting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fasting/top?t=all

Stupidity, only nature's resource which will never end...Fasting = Diet for idiots, who doesn't understand laws of human physique, nutrients etc. Point is that you can drop your weight fast by fasting, but you can't drop your bodyfat% with that speed. How this is possible? Muscle tissue weights ~20% more than fat tissue. If you are fasting, your metabolism doesn't stop needing protein, so it take it from your muscles, and that's why your weight is dropping fast. Why your metabolism need so much protein? All your brain functions are based on protein, so if you don't get protein from your diet, you lose muscle mass. There is no means to get around this fact. Why do you think that there is new way of dieting published by every other minute? Because burning fat is thing next to impossible to do easily. It always require lot of hard work, but idiots who try to find shortcuts are endless. Just about only way to burn fat for energy is ketogenic diet, and that will work with 100% certainty, if you do it by the book. No one knows will you survive from it, but you will lose body fat fast  

[loco]

Also autophagy and water fasting has cured type 2 diabities in some.

Of course.  Ask conventional doctors and they'll tell you that type 2 diabetes is incurable, and only the symptoms can be treated using expensive diabetes medications.

The truth is there exist at least three proven cures for type 2 diabetes:

Gastric bypass surgery

A very, very restricted calorie diet

The keto diet, including the carnivore diet, which mimic fasting.

The Soviet Union also did tons of research and human testing of fasting to cure all kinds of diseases.  They even had fasting clinics run by medical doctors and nurses.  All of this kind of got forgotten after the end of the cold war.  The documents still exist, but haven't yet been translated from Russian and published.

[Army of One]

Stupidity, only nature's resource which will never end...Fasting = Diet for idiots, who doesn't understand laws of human physique, nutrients etc. Point is that you can drop your weight fast by fasting, but you can't drop your bodyfat% with that speed. How this is possible? Muscle tissue weights ~20% more than fat tissue. If you are fasting, your metabolism doesn't stop needing protein, so it take it from your muscles, and that's why your weight is dropping fast. Why your metabolism need so much protein? All your brain functions are based on protein, so if you don't get protein from your diet, you lose muscle mass. There is no means to get around this fact. Why do you think that there is new way of dieting published by every other minute? Because burning fat is thing next to impossible to do easily. It always require lot of hard work, but idiots who try to find shortcuts are endless. Just about only way to burn fat for energy is ketogenic diet, and that will work with 100% certainty, if you do it by the book. No one knows will you survive from it, but you will lose body fat fast  

Estimates for how much bodyfat can be burned a day are still all over the place from study to study.There is still so much we don't know about the human body.Even today the world is getting wrecked by a virus the world has no vaccine for.Sars a similar virus still no vaccine in 2 decades.Look at the results, clearly people are shifting way more bodyfat in a shorter timeframe than any other diet I've seen.

[Flexacon]

People who weighed 456 pounds at some point in their lives don't tend to live long.

Stressing the body in any extreme way has a knock on effect on health/lifespan and that includes extreme forms of fasting.

Ask guys who reached crazy low levels of body fat how long it took them to start feeling normal again. It's usually months, on occasions they're never the same again. 

[Army of One]

Stressing the body in any extreme way has a knock on effect on health/lifespan and that includes extreme forms of fasting.

Ask guys who reached crazy low levels of body fat how long it took them to start feeling normal again. It's usually months, on occasions they're never the same again. 

But much of the stress on the body is digestion.This basically shuts down on a water fast.And of course getting near ultra low bodyfat isn't going to be good for you.But the body is designed to exist in a fasted state, it's why we store bodyfat in the first place.

[Army of One]

There's tons of posts from lifters who water fasted for weeks and lost no size, this was just the first I came across

https://www.reddit.com/r/fasting/comments/a6ki5e/before_and_after_a_21_day_fast_i_completed_in/

Also this study

https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.00907.2010

after 6 weeks the athletes saw a 10% increase in muscle capillary density indicating the muscles were growing, the fasted athletes increased their exercise intensity three times more than the carbohydrate-fed athletes (21% fasted vs 6% carb eating), the fasted athletes had a significant breakdown of intramuscular fat while the carbohydrate-fed athletes showed absolutely no breakdown of intramuscular fat.

[tres_taco_combo]

I love fasting when I am not bbing

it works
do not snack at all (no carrots, no cucumbers) since it spikes insulin

do not drink BCAA, or coffee imho

just water and water only (add salt, and some potassium) that is it.