Re: Sustained weight loss

#128676,
most people are aware that "all diets work and all diets fail"; so after your fast, if you return to your old eating habits then you will regain more weight than you lost as the body requires less bulk in food post-fast.

What is really needed here are a few lifestyle changes, not only in diet, but other health factors as well.

If your desire is to maintain weightloss post-fast, then I suggest you follow this equation: H=N/C or Health= Nutrients/Calories. In other words a low-calorie but nutrient-dense diet.
This is especially so if the foods you eat are properly combined.

Let's put that another way...........

Food does not equal nutrition. I'll say that again: food does not equal nutrition.

Unless your body is satisfied "nutritionally" then you will always remain in a state of constant hunger resulting in overeating and therefore excessive weight gain.
However, if you feed your body with the nutrition it needs and deserves, the Brains "appestat" will "switch-off" and you will no longer have any desire for any further food, preventing any unnecessary weight gain.

Four golden rules..
#1. Eat a wholesome nutrient-rich diet according to hunger/appetite only.
#2. Make sure the food is low-calorie and of a high-water-content: in other words a plant-based diet.
#3. Earn your food thru exercise and physical activity.
#4. Combine your foods correctly: this will prevent putrefaction and fermentation, mainly caused by mixing a protein food with a starch food at the same meal, and a massive cause of weight gain.

BTW. Water-only fasting is not the best way of losing weight as the metabolism is lowered by one fourth to two fifths in an effort by the body to "conserve" its food reserves. As the fast progresses it is the "norm" for less and less weight to be lost.
It is not unusual for a fasters weight to "stagnate" for a period of several days or more during a prolonged fast.

Personally, if I was attempting to lose weight as my only goal, then I would adhere to the diet as prescribed above with exercise. A higher rate of metabolism burns more calories and a lower calorie intake will be more successful in the end.

Chrisb1.