Re: water fasting for 40 days?

How strange. I have tried exercise, atkins diet, f-plan diet and every diet under the sun to lose weight, they have all failed. Yet since doing a 27 day fast I have lost around 12 Kg including some weight gain after the fast, but the extraordinary thing is that after the weight gain I am still much lower than my starting weight and I CONTINUE TO LOSE WEIGHT EVEN THOUGH I HAVE STUFFED MYSELF THIS CHRISTMAS. See my earlier comments about the rebound effect, and replies by Chrisb1 and Fonty. and see graph (weights recorded every one day when fasting, 2 days when refeeding):

 What I find remarkable is that I appear to be losing weight after the fast now that things have settled down, even though it's Christmas and I am eating much more than I usually do. Yet if I had dieted I would be putting on weight, and believe me, I know from many years of experience of unsuccessful dieting.

Do you have any real life examples of people who put on all the weight after a fast to back up what you say? If so, I am wondering how come my experience is so different? My experience is exactly the opposite to what you say in every respect!