Ocasional Fasting Day = Muscle Loss?

DianaAmorim
DianaAmorim Posts: 75
in Health and Weight Loss
Hello everyone!

Hope someone may help me with this doubt. I read today a short article about fasting days.
I want to know if doing a one day week fasting, or one day every two weeks, would be harmfull for someone who does workout (some dvd's workout and dumbbells). I am not talking about working out on the fasting days, but if it would mean some muscle loss.

I am asking because ocassionally I binge, and in the day after I feel my body all weird. I was wondering if using a fasting day after a binge would be good, note to compensate the calories ingested , but to help the body clean so much junk inside.

However, apart from losing weight, I really don't want to lose muscle mass, so if even an occasional fasting day might mean a muscle loss, I definitely will not do it.

Any advise?

Replies

  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    Fasting will not "clean your body".
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    No intermittent fasting does not provoke muscle loss.
    I've been doing an IF routine for over 18 months both when losing weight and also at maintenance.

    But fasting is NOT recommended for anyone with an eating disorder.
    It is not a healthy relationship with food to binge and restrict. You need to avoid binging rather than compensate for it.

    Fasting does not "clean the body" (whatever you mean by that!).

    My advice to you is not to fast but to understand and resolve why you binge. Maybe you place an unnecessary restriction on food or divide foods into spurious "good/bad", "healthy/unhealthy" categories or are simply restricting your calories too much.
  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,590 MFP Moderator
    No intermittent fasting does not provoke muscle loss.
    I've been doing an IF routine for over 18 months both when losing weight and also at maintenance.

    But fasting is NOT recommended for anyone with an eating disorder.
    It is not a healthy relationship with food to binge and restrict. You need to avoid binging rather than compensate for it.

    Fasting does not "clean the body" (whatever you mean by that!).

    My advice to you is not to fast but to understand and resolve why you binge. Maybe you place an unnecessary restriction on food or divide foods into spurious "good/bad", "healthy/unhealthy" categories or are simply restricting your calories too much.

    +1 - could not have come up with a better response myself

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