Intermittent Feeding and Organic Fasting, there is no way I can believe that.
Organic Fasting is method of weight loss and weight maintenance that has been followed naturally, by mankind, since the beginning of time.
In our present age it is not uncommon for modern health practitioners to believe that the process of fasting for weight loss as being unwise and not healthy for your body. There are some commonly stated arguments against fasting but these arguments do not carry much weight with the most current weight loss methods. A few of the statements against fasting are as follows:
1. A person's metabolism slows down when fasting so losing weight doesn't occur.
2. Fasting eat up your muscles, leaving you a greater fat to muscle ratio.
3. Fasting does not work because you always gain the weight right back afterwards.
Beliefs like these been around for a long time. However, current science seems to disagree with most of them. Let me show you some examples of these statements being incorrect
1. Fasting slows down your metabolism so you will not lose weight.
It is surprising that people agree with things like this. Were a belief like this true then whenever someone stopped eating their body would slow down the metabolism and stop all weight loss. If this really occurred it would make it impossible for a person to starve to death! Of course our bodies lose weight while fasting and the truth of the matter is that our bodies need a certain amount of energy each day just to function properly.
If you are not eating enough calories to sustain this bodily need then your body sucks additional energy out of fat cells stored in your body. There are 3500 calories stored in 1 lb of body fat. This means in order to lose 1 lb of fat you need to eat 3500 calories less then your body requires.
Fasting works like this. 2000-3000 calories is what the average person eats in a day. If a normal person went without food for just a single day a week that person would reduce their weekly caloric intake by almost a whole pound of fat.
While fasting may act to reduce metabolism at first, that very small reduction of metabolism will not have much of an impact at all on slowing down fasting weight loss.
2. Fasting eats up your muscles first, leaving you with a greater fat to muscle ratio.
Again we have a statement that just does not make sense if you consider the science. It is true that at the beginning some small amount of energy is pulled from body muscles, but this is only a small amount and it is typically pulled from muscle mass, not the actual muscle. What this basically means is that while the temporary size of your muscle will descrease temporarily, you will not really be loosing muscle. You body will very quickly replace such muscle size once the fast is broken.
A long, long time ago, back when our ancestors survived by hunting and gathering they were not able to eat everyday. Food did not store very well and it was not readily available. Some days they would find food and some days they would not and the bodies of our ancestors adapted just fine to this lifestyle.
Because of this, when the opportunity to eat presented itself it was natural for our ancestors to eat a very large amount. This would in effect allow the eater to store unused energy in their body fat. Then, when the time came that food was not readily available the body could pull its energy directly from energy storage in fat. Our bodies are truly amazing machines!
How horrible would it be if, after our ancestors had not eaten for a day, they started to use energy from their muscles instead of fat? It would ensure that they would grow much weaker day by day of their fast and as they grow weaker they would have less and less of a chance to actually get any food. This is why intermittent fasting makes so much sense.
Our early ancestors were able to function just fine on days when they had not had the opportunity to eat because human bodies used calories from fat before they turned to using muscle. It was only after all their body fat, or in other words stored energy were depleted that their bodies would begin to consume their muscle for nourishment. On a normal person today that would take over 50 days of not eating!
3. People that fast for weight loss just gain all the weight back when they finish their fast.
Once again, the best way to consider this statement is to do a simple calculation of calories in, calories out. If an individual does not eat more calories then their body needs, then they simply will not gain the weight back. But, if they eat to much after loosing weight then yes, they will gain weight again, but that is no different then any other weight loss method. - 17269
In our present age it is not uncommon for modern health practitioners to believe that the process of fasting for weight loss as being unwise and not healthy for your body. There are some commonly stated arguments against fasting but these arguments do not carry much weight with the most current weight loss methods. A few of the statements against fasting are as follows:
1. A person's metabolism slows down when fasting so losing weight doesn't occur.
2. Fasting eat up your muscles, leaving you a greater fat to muscle ratio.
3. Fasting does not work because you always gain the weight right back afterwards.
Beliefs like these been around for a long time. However, current science seems to disagree with most of them. Let me show you some examples of these statements being incorrect
1. Fasting slows down your metabolism so you will not lose weight.
It is surprising that people agree with things like this. Were a belief like this true then whenever someone stopped eating their body would slow down the metabolism and stop all weight loss. If this really occurred it would make it impossible for a person to starve to death! Of course our bodies lose weight while fasting and the truth of the matter is that our bodies need a certain amount of energy each day just to function properly.
If you are not eating enough calories to sustain this bodily need then your body sucks additional energy out of fat cells stored in your body. There are 3500 calories stored in 1 lb of body fat. This means in order to lose 1 lb of fat you need to eat 3500 calories less then your body requires.
Fasting works like this. 2000-3000 calories is what the average person eats in a day. If a normal person went without food for just a single day a week that person would reduce their weekly caloric intake by almost a whole pound of fat.
While fasting may act to reduce metabolism at first, that very small reduction of metabolism will not have much of an impact at all on slowing down fasting weight loss.
2. Fasting eats up your muscles first, leaving you with a greater fat to muscle ratio.
Again we have a statement that just does not make sense if you consider the science. It is true that at the beginning some small amount of energy is pulled from body muscles, but this is only a small amount and it is typically pulled from muscle mass, not the actual muscle. What this basically means is that while the temporary size of your muscle will descrease temporarily, you will not really be loosing muscle. You body will very quickly replace such muscle size once the fast is broken.
A long, long time ago, back when our ancestors survived by hunting and gathering they were not able to eat everyday. Food did not store very well and it was not readily available. Some days they would find food and some days they would not and the bodies of our ancestors adapted just fine to this lifestyle.
Because of this, when the opportunity to eat presented itself it was natural for our ancestors to eat a very large amount. This would in effect allow the eater to store unused energy in their body fat. Then, when the time came that food was not readily available the body could pull its energy directly from energy storage in fat. Our bodies are truly amazing machines!
How horrible would it be if, after our ancestors had not eaten for a day, they started to use energy from their muscles instead of fat? It would ensure that they would grow much weaker day by day of their fast and as they grow weaker they would have less and less of a chance to actually get any food. This is why intermittent fasting makes so much sense.
Our early ancestors were able to function just fine on days when they had not had the opportunity to eat because human bodies used calories from fat before they turned to using muscle. It was only after all their body fat, or in other words stored energy were depleted that their bodies would begin to consume their muscle for nourishment. On a normal person today that would take over 50 days of not eating!
3. People that fast for weight loss just gain all the weight back when they finish their fast.
Once again, the best way to consider this statement is to do a simple calculation of calories in, calories out. If an individual does not eat more calories then their body needs, then they simply will not gain the weight back. But, if they eat to much after loosing weight then yes, they will gain weight again, but that is no different then any other weight loss method. - 17269
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