For you dieters out there you hafta keep in mind that there are no shortcuts or magic potions and that no form of fasting, water, juice, MC whatever were designed as weight loss diets, period. Fasting is meant to take the burden from digestion and all the energy that goes toward it and let the body repair and heal itself. Stop looking at the numbers on the scale they are meaningless and you can easily become obsessed. You will know you are loosing weight by the way your clothes fit and most of all by the way you feel.

First of all fasting slows down the metabolism, this is a fact of life and the body was created to do this. This is one of the reasons that any kind of fast is not the best way to lose weight over a long period of time. However, fasting does cleanse the system allowing it to function better and assimilate more nutrients from less food. It just isn't a diet, its a tool to make a correct diet more efficient. Try to look at this as a cleanse, not a weight loss plan. When it is over you can enjoy the benefits of a healthier body while you lose weight safely and effectively.

You will loose weight on the MC. How much depends on many factors. When you fast it gives your digestive system a break and the body will try to repair itself and use the extra energy to do what it needs to do the most first. Don't count on loosing a specific amount cause you will be disappointed if you don't. It works different for each individual.

Now all that being said I will tell you that the MC is NOT a weight loss diet primarily. It is a as the name implies a "Cleanse" and it's primary function is to heal. The MC or any other "fasts" are not a good way to loose weight >>>UNLESS<<< you are committed to long term maintenance afterwards because when you fast your metabolism slows down considerably and if you don't follow up with a good solid healthy diet and >>>REGULAR<<< exercise afterwards you'll very likely gain most if not all and possibly more than you lost on the fast. There a quite are few stories on this forum. Below is an excerpt from one

"I did 18 days of MC a few months back and did what you did, ate every thing in sight. I lost about 25lbs but put it all back on plus a lot more quicker than I would have thought possible. I remember that I gained 10 or 15 lbs. the a week after."

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There are no magic weight loss diets including the MC. That is why theres sucha huge diet industry. They have plans that help you lose the weight but what they don't tell you or emphasize the great importance that what you do after the diet is an integral part and just as important and that if you go back to your old eating habits that you will gain the weight back. This is even more relevant when you use any form of fasting to lose weight because all fasting will slow the metabolism and it could take 4 to 6 weeks to bring it back to normal. One of the major differences in using fasting over dieting to lose weight is that since your metabolism is slowed by fasting if you don't change your old habits you will gain the weight back quicker and even possibly put on more as has been documented in this forum many times

Succesful and permanent weightloss requires a "lifestyle change" which in the vast majority if not all cases also requires the addition of a >>regular<< exercise. This applies not only to the MC but to all weight reduction regimens.

Obesity is not a thing in and of itself. It is the manifestation of many possible causes thus the MC is a very good program to use as >>part<< of a weightloss program cause you are addressing the root causes of obesity but it is >NOT< a weight loss diet. It is as the name implies a cleanse. It is a way to make a correct diet more efficient so you can enjoy the benefits of a healthier body while you lose weight safely and effectively by the required follow up after the fast. You will loose weight on the MC but that can vary greatly from person to person and even for the same individual from one MC to the next depending on how toxic they are.

A succesfull follow up plan is not so much about portions and calorie counting. It is about >>>BALANCE<<<, >>>WHAT<<< you eat, the >>>QUALITY<<< of what you eat and getting >>REGULAR<< exercise.

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In essence >yes< you will loose weight on the MC and it is a >great< way to jump start your weight loss program since the MC is primarily as the name implies a "cleanse" which addresses the root "health" causes of obesity. Again the point being made is that the MC is not a magic weight loss bullet and what you do after the MC is an integral part and just as important if you expect to keep the weight off. >>>IF<<< you go back to your old eating habits you >>WILL<< gain the weight back, the end. This applies to any and all "diets". There simply is no magic bullet. It will take educating yourself, determination focus and time.

Obesity is not a compartmentalized issue in and of itself it is a "health issue" and just the manifestation of many possible causes. realizing this and addressing it from that point of view is the only surefire way I know to succeed in permanet weight loss. Take it from personal experience of someone who not only lost 50 lbs close to 3 years ago and has kept it off but also got rid of chronic shoulder and wrist pain after his first MC(40) and changed his life.

The MC is sooooooo much more than a weight loss diet.