12 week 4 days a week water fast

hadizaidris365
hadizaidris365 Posts: 3 Member
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So im 5'3, 20 and 150 lbs which makes me 20-30 lbs overweight. I work in the food industry which makes it hard for me to lose weight. So i decided that days i don't work(---4 times a week) I will consume nothing but water for 12 weeks to be down 20 lbs. im wondering if anyone here has done something similar and it worked for them? Ive tried everything this year and it did not work for me, i realize now that the reason i did not lose weight is i greatly overestimate my bodies ability to burn calories that i eat. I burn about 1500 calories a day.

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  • ccrdragon
    ccrdragon Posts: 3,374 Member
    My only question about this is what happens at the end of the 12 weeks when you go back to eating normally?
  • hadizaidris365
    hadizaidris365 Posts: 3 Member
    I have been working on changing the foods i buy and keep at home. Im also hoping that this will help me 'reset' my appetite to help me learn to eat less. I have fasted before and this is what usually happens. I just go back to eating normally because then i was not conscious of my size and i would eat because i felt like ooh, I'm full but i need to eat because this is how i normally eat before i started fasting. Im basically hoping this just helps me learn to see food more as fuel as compared to something i use to pass time. If i lose weight at the end of this and i gain it all back later on then lmao i think i would try another thing or just not focus on my weight anymore.
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    If you're 5'3 and 150, you're only 10-20 lbs overweight. (I'm 5'3. 140 is this magical signpost that I'm finally able to see in the distance after 11 months. It's the top of our BMI range.)

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    At this point, you haven't got a lot of fat to burn. Set MFP to give you a calorie limit to burn 0.5 lbs/week and eat that, plus at least half of any exercise calories. If you want to fast four days and eat more on the other three, it sounds a little extreme to me, but I don't know if there's actually anything wrong with it. (Anyone better-informed want to chime in?)

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