Re: Fasting, metabolism, and preventing weight gain after the fast

Hi Carina,
Fasting improves the digestion and assimilation of foods: it makes the digestive system much more efficient.
Hunger/appetite is felt via the demand for nourishment and where many many people are overweight because they do not eat the type of foods that satisfy their bodies nutritionally.

As a result of this, if someone for example eats foodless foods with a low nutritional value, then their appetite hunger is not satisfied as the body is demanding the nutrition that it really needs, so the urge is to overeat, as the "appestat" within the Brain that controls appetite/hunger does not switch off; it would normally do so when the nutritional requirements of the body have been met.
By eating nutrient dense foods the body is satisfied with less and therefore the risk of becoming overweight from eating too much is minimized.

Whether your fast is long, or you undergo a series of short fasts, the result will be the same thereafter: a gain in excess weight unless you adhere to a nutrient-dense-high-water-content-diet that is properly combined. In this way your body strives towards its own "ideal weight" and where any excess is lost, and underweight persons gain it up to this ideal, for their own body/bone size/structure.

Waterbug is also right in that it takes approx 5 to 6 weeks for metabolism to reach normal levels after a protracted fast, but this would be a shorter time frame for those who have only undergone a short fast rather than a long one.

This is the ultimate and most complete answer to not gaining excess weight post fast.

Chrisb1.



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