Re: Andrew, thanks for the encouragement

lol to put it mildly I think what you've read is rubbish. While fasting the body takes what is required from the body's stores to keep it going. It digests what it needs from the body, using the least vital parts of the body up first. That means that the body knows not to digest the brain and heart to survive for example. It also means to me that fat will be digested before muscle tissue unless there is a deficiency in the body's stores and this deficiency needs to be filled by muscle tissue digestion. I would suggest that in your case especially since you are still active during your fast and using your muscles more than the people who make a big effort to rest on their fasts, that the body would not actually be digesting the muscles that are in use each day! The body is a lot smarter than the author of that article. That's my opinion anyway. ;)

The other thing that is going on during a fast of course is the cleansing of all tissue that isn't needed, again this would include excess fat deposits as well as stored toxins. To suggest that most of weight loss that happens during a fast that is undertaken correctly to me shows a complete misunderstanding of the process. It is probably what a lot of people think happens but that doesn't make it right.

I can just imagine what I'd be looking like at the end of my fast if all my weight loss was from muscle! I'd be a a big roly poly jelly with all my fat stuck to the bones with no muscle in between, what a sight! lol

Sorry about the tone of this message- somewhere between disbelieve that a natural hygiene doctor would say something like that, and mirth at the concept- but I do want to put your fears to rest about this. This link was given to me when I first came here by Chris-


http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.toc.htm


It is quite an in depth read and you will find some good stuff on this matter in Chapters 5 and 6: "Autolysis" and "Fasting not Starving". Unfortunately the books I read are rare and out of print so this is the best resource I have for Water Fasting at the moment. Hopefully that will put your mind at rest about fasting being no good for fat loss.

In a fast you will lose the body mass that you need to lose, nothing more.

Cheers,

Andrew.
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