Re: Fasting and fat burning (edit)

"i decided to attain optimal body fat % in this fast and be able to focus on rebuilding thereafter."

That's my goal too, but because I believe that having such excess fat is unnatural, what we eat is now dictated by the television not by the soil and weather, plus we have too much of everything. As I mentioned in my previous post on my one day fast, this teaches me that I am still overeating. That's because I can just buy stuff off the shelves at knock down prices, and I don't like throwing food away. Ideally I would like to reconnect with the soil, and that's my long term goal.

I can't wait to get out of the unnatural state and start building again. I always was skinny when I was young, and I think it's nonsense to accept that older people should carry more fat. But equally I know I can't rush things. It takes time for bones and things to adjust.

Anyway I think I will add a day a week fasting if it starts to show better results.

Oh and

"but it is all for nothing without proper lifestyle to follow"

Agree 100%. Fasting was a catalyst to a better life for me, it reset my taste buds and opened my eyes to many things. I had to do a lot of reading to undo years of brainwashing by friends, family, TV, media, big companies, the government even. But I coulnd't go back to the old ways now. Learning the truth is a one way ticket. The only thing that could change me is if the 20 or more doctors and scientists that talk openly about and all the research they have done were proved wrong, but the more I read the more I see to reinforce the viewoint that a high nutrient plant based diet, sunshine, exercise and a positive outlook has amazing effects on health and longevity.

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I forgot to mention, you said you tried and failed by putting the weight back on because you didn't change your lifestyle, then you did and it worked. I have been posting here for 18 months, not because I tried and failed but because it takes more than a few weeks to reduce your body weight from 260 pounds to 130 pounds! In that time I have seen many people go belly up with fasting for weight loss, but a few successes too, such as severin, fasting2goal and anyone else who speaks up and adds their name to this thread, but I think they ate healthily too. It would be interesting to know if they kept that weight offk, and how. And maybe there are other ways to keep it off, eg by exercise, but look what happened to that Peter Lewis who Caldwell Esselstyn got on the stage at vegsource's Expo talk. He was into cycling, but he needed heart surgery, until his heard disease was reversed by a few vegetables. I suppose younger people may not think of the health factor, but they discoverd heart disease in 18 and 19 year old US troops from autopsies after the gulf wars, and they were "fit" by conventional standards too. Peter Lewis was in his 30s, and that guy from WAPF who said that cholesterol was a nutrient died in his early 40s from a stroke. That's not old - well not by my standards anyway.