In my opinion, Water Fasting is extremely dangerous, there are far more ways to lose weight than to go on a water fast. I have done Water Fast in the past and what people do not realize is when the only thing you are taking in as water you are washing out all the electrolytes and salts in your body. I am a man that used to weigh 300 lbs in 2005, I started studying around 2002, but by 2006 I had lost over a hundred lb and to this day I think I weigh 188 and I have maintained this way which is the most important part once you lose it is to keep it off. What size start creeping up to 200 lb I know that it's time to start cutting back. But getting to your point about losing weight, the average person will maintain their weight by consuming 2500 calories a day, if your small frame and small build I would reduce that down to about 2,000 calories a day. That will make you maintain the weight you are at unless you are grossly overweight. After all the years of studying and practicing I believe that the calorie diet cannot be defeated. The good thing about the calorie diet is you can actually eat anything you want as long as you stay at 1200 calories. Now the 1,200 calories also includes the calories that you drink and most people will neglect this part. But whether it's solid food or liquid drink calories are calories. So the further you drop under 1200 calories the faster you will lose weight. What a lot of people do not understand is the sodium, and sodium is one of the biggest downfalls of a Dieter, because what happens is the person literally is almost starving their self but if they don't take into consideration disodium salt they are consuming, it will really mess them up as they go to the scales because they knew they ate very little for the last week and all the sudden they are holding an extra 5 lb. The reason you gain 5 lbs overnight is because of the sodium is causing you to hold water so if you just stick with the diet stay away from the salt and keep drinking distilled water you will be amazed at your weight loss progress. There's a lot to say about sodium intake on a diet. The great thing about this diet is you can literally eat anything you want as long as you count the calories and stay away from the salt. Salt and Sugar both will make you retain water and most people never talk about this, the reason salt will make you hold water is because it is toxic to the human body and so the body tries to dilute down the salt with the water and that's why you retain it until the danger has subsided, on the other side with Sugar it will kick your insulin levels up and the extra insulin will calls Danger lights to come on in the body and so the body will flood the system with water to dilute the extra insulin. I hope you the best on your diet.

Water fasting is not only safe, it's an incredibly satisfying experience, IF you replace your electrolytes.

To anybody that does not have previous experience fasting i strongly recommend starting slowly.

Spend the two weeks on a 16 hour fast (called 16/8). You fast for 16 and eat during 8 hours. You can eat anything you want but you cannot eat outside those hours.

After 2 weeks of that move to a 20/4; eat all your daily nutritional requirements in a 4 hour window. Maybe at this stage you'll need to not eat some sweet stuff in order to make room for your lunch and dinner. The choice is yours, but it would be folly not to eat your minimum nutritional intake.

After 2 weeks on 20/4, move to 23/1 and remove all sugars from your diet. You won't have time to eat them anyway! Bear in mind that simple carbohydrates (white bread, white pasta... Anything made from refined flour) is also a sugar. So is fruit. No fruit. No sweets. Only wholegrain /brown bread, pasta, etc.

I know it sounds difficult to do but once you've completed the first 4 weeks you'll be well accustomed and not have any problems. After 3 weeks on 23/1, if you are not in Ketosis you could then do a 4 or 5 day fast, consuming half teaspoon of salt and one teaspoon of potassium chloride (aka LoSalt / NuSalt) in a glass of water each day. This will keep your electrolytes in balance.

When ketosis kicks in you'll know all about it. Your body will now be creating more than double the amount of energy it normally produces. You will not be able to sit still. You will be very active. You will feel like a million dollars. You will feel invisible, like you can do anything (and you probably will). To the describe the sensation as euphoric would a colossal understatement.

My name is Barry and I have been experiencing ketosis for 4 months now. I've learnt allot, am still learning. I want to help. Klar feel free to contact me again.

PS. If you're taking any medication, stay on it and consult your doctor. Let them know you're going to fast.

In my humble opinion and also as backed by research and personal experience, you can definitely lose weight utilizing water-only fasting as a tool. More importantly and more specifically you can lose fat. In addition to being able to burn fat as the primary fuel source throughout a water-only fast, there will almost certainly be a fairly significant amount of temporary water and intestinal content loss, most or all of which will be added back to the individual's weight within 1-3 days of ending the fast at which point the weight will relatively stabilize.

The link provided in your post suggests that someone can lose 5 kg in a 7 day fast, which for we Americans is about 11 pounds but as i have so commonly seen, this does not take into account that almost certainly a significant portion of this overall loss will return within 1-3 days as the water levels and intestinal content stabilize.

With myself as an example, just yesterday i completed a 7 day water-only fast, the final 3 days of which were dry... and my temporary 7 day loss was 15 pounds taking me from 212 temporarily to 197. My prediction of how much enduring loss i would achieve based upon estimated maintainence metabolism that would be burned within my body, was that once my weight stabilized within 3 days i would find myself at about 5 pounds of real loss.

12 hours after breaking the fast by drinking over several hours 2 liters of a Himalayan salted broth type content, 1 liter of kombucha, an avocado, and a tablespoon of coconut oil... and with my body choosing to hold onto most of the new water content several hours later, the 15 pound loss had (as anticipated) already been reduced to an 8 pound loss, with a bit more balancing still to come.

As such and as in past 7 day fasts, i will have lost about 5 real pounds in this 7 day fast, possibly 6 pounds, but no more than this. As far as i am concerned this is fantastic, but it is not sensationalistic / "too good to be true" as would be an enduring 11 or 15 pound loss in 7 days. I am sure it is possible for some people with different variables in place (especially extremely overweight individuals and/or people with a lot of excess water retention issues which a fast would potentially resolve) to lose 10 or maybe even 15 pounds of real loss in 7 days, but if this were the case, their loss would have to exceed the 10-15 pounds initially (would perhaps initially need to be 15-25 to then stabilize at 10-15 after 3 days) because it is almost certain that just as i have personally experienced repeatedly and just as i have learned from so many others in their experiences, a substantial amount of temporary loss will return within the 3 days.

My own opinion as well is that to utilize fasting effectively as a reliable fat loss tool, it is essential to choose a reliable lifestyle of eating in between fasts which will not allow for addictive eating to run out of control especially where grains and desserts are concerned. My personal opinion and experience is that a very low carb diet which leads to nutritional ketosis works wonders in taming appetite and thus in keeping people on track.

The strategy i would thus recommend is to stabilize oneself in a very low carb ketogenic diet and combining this with daily intermittent fasting of perhaps 16/8, 18/6 or 20/4 (or even 14/10 if someone finds it difficult to exceed this).. and then periodically alternating this stable keto diet with fasts of at least 30 hours or so... or as long as one would prefer whether 36 hours, 2 days, 3 days, 5, 7, 20, 30 or 40... then back to very low carb ketogenic eating with daily intermittent 16/8 (etc) to re-stabilize.

I also very strongly advocate resistance training while feeding as an exceedingly helpful tool in reaching the desired health goals and body composition transformation.

Edit: By the way and ps, there are a rare breed of MD's who advocate for fasting including as a fat loss tool. This attached video provides one such example: https://youtu.be/7nJgHBbEgsE

yes it is possible
if you don't take water then your weight will loose but if you complete stop taking water then it's bed for health instead of this take some juice made without water and sugar.
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