As you can see from this series on fasting, fasting has been an often overlooked answer to the dieting needs of many people.  For the vast majority of us, the answer to the question, “Should we be fasting?” is a resounding YES!

For healthy people wanting a simple and effective way to lose weight, the combination of short term fasting and exercise is an easy way to create a caloric deficit and has no negative impact on our metabolism or our muscle.

Fasting for 24 hours, once or twice a week may be the easiest way to decrease your calorie intake by 10% to 20%, without having to sacrifice and restrict what you eat. It’s like getting the benefits of an entire week of strict dieting, while only sacrificing for one or two days.

So with fasting we can create prolonged dietary restriction (the only proven nutritional method of weight loss) while only sacrificing one or two 24 hour periods in a week, allowing us to reset the balance between fed and fasted.

The best part of these findings is that since many of the health benefits from fasting occur in the first 24 hours; we can use the Eat Stop Eat style of flexible intermittent fasting and NEVER GO A DAY WITHOUT EATING!

This series about fasting was taken from the ebook Eat Stop Eat by Brad Pilon.