Dieting and fasting

Yasmine91

Anyone else on here fasting and dieting? how do you find it? do you gain weight or lose it? I tend to gain weight during ramadan, but that's if I eat my mums cooking XD

How do you guys cope? has it affected your weight loss or gains if that's what some of you guys are here for?

Douniap

Idk about fasting.. I never done it..
all i can say is that if you are exercising, you have to feed your body.. Using MFP keeps you on track for your recommended calories.
I guess you might loose some weight at the start, but then your body might go into "stravation mode" and slows down the metabolism; which in turn will not be burning any calories and not loose any weight..
If you have to fast due to religion [Ramadan], then i would suggest that you make sure that you eat all of your recommended calories and try continuing with your exercises (especially after you break your fast).
Best of luck,
Dounia

Yasmine91

Yeah that's what I have been worried about, the whole starvation mode thing. I do make sure I eat three times a day though, before sunrise I have breakfast, then when I brake fast I eat something, and then a little later I eat again. Do you think this won't hurt my weight loss?

islandnutshel

I used to fast at least once a year. I would carefully eliminate harder to digest foods and go all the way to fruit / vegetable juice then add easy to digest fruits, veggies back in, food combining. This used to be helpful in eliminatine 'food allergy' symptoms. When I discovered I was celiac, all that I needed to eliminate was gluten to feel better. I don't believe that fasting achieves all that it claims but I do find initial weight loss ( often most of it is regained w return to normal diet) I worry about it's effect on metabolism but if eased in and out of this also self corrects. I still do a fruit/veg elimination diet every so often, just to give the digestion a rest but I usualy keep my calories near 1200 by including raw seeds and nuts. I also do not exercise vigorously on these days, and I get lots of rest. Perhap it's just part of the hippy in me that keeps me doing this every couple of months but I find it restores my taste for healthy food and it is refreshing.

Douniap

Yeah that's what I have been worried about, the whole starvation mode thing. I do make sure I eat three times a day though, before sunrise I have breakfast, then when I brake fast I eat something, and then a little later I eat again. Do you think this won't hurt my weight loss?

As long as you keep it the way you are doing it and increase the intake of veggies and fruits (not heavy food), and water then you should be fine..
Cheers
Dounia

Douniap

I used to fast at least once a year. I would carefully eliminate harder to digest foods and go all the way to fruit / vegetable juice then add easy to digest fruits, veggies back in, food combining. This used to be helpful in eliminatine 'food allergy' symptoms. When I discovered I was celiac, all that I needed to eliminate was gluten to feel better. I don't believe that fasting achieves all that it claims but I do find initial weight loss ( often most of it is regained w return to normal diet) I worry about it's effect on metabolism but if eased in and out of this also self corrects. I still do a fruit/veg elimination diet every so often, just to give the digestion a rest but I usualy keep my calories near 1200 by including raw seeds and nuts. I also do not exercise vigorously on these days, and I get lots of rest. Perhap it's just part of the hippy in me that keeps me doing this every couple of months but I find it restores my taste for healthy food and it is refreshing.

ya for Celiac disease you just need to have gluten free food..
1200 calories is very low..

Yasmine91

Thanks guys! I'll bare all this in mind