Fasting to loose 10 pounds

How about we make a deal? Eat at MFP recommended calories for 2 weeks and see how much you drop in weight? I bet it will be close to your 10 pound number. The first week you will put out big numbers because of losing water weight anyway even without the fast. :flowerforyou:

If you're gaining weight it's because you're eating more than needed. You don't need to fast, you just need to cut back some calories.

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not to be offensive but you need to read what I wrote lol, I know how it works my problem is motivation

If you are having a tough time just eating fewer calories, how are you going to be motivated enough to fast? That makes no sense to me. As others have pointed out, you'll probably put the weight back on once you start eating again.

gastric bypass surgery is a very serious surgery, and not done just to jump start a diet... everyone on here has given you very good, sound advice... it really does sound as though you have your mind made up.. so after the fasting, and when that week is over, then what?? i know you truly believe that after the first week, somehow someway you will have the motivation to do it the right way and eat sensibly... im just not hearing that from you... please listen to everyone on here.. they have all been through this, you are not the first to think this way, and take it from people that are older and more experienced than you are.. please do this the right way and dont starve or fast... no doctor worth his weight in salt will advise you to do this. please take care of yourself the right way!

My top weight was also 300 lbs. I know all too well the cycle of binging, self-loathing, promises to do better, then failing and figuring I just "couldn't" do it. I am the master of ALL excuses to not get healthy. I started my weight loss with a lean protein/green veggies detox (dr approved, that is really important!), and lost 4 lbs of water weight. 4 lbs, and was hungry all the time, cranky, and felt like crap. It was NOT worth it and did NOT help me. Not saying it doesn't help anybody, but when you're used to eating junk, your body tends to freak out when you just take everything away. You NEED healthy fats and proteins to function. Even vegetarians and vegans don't survive on fruits and veggies alone, and fruits are overrated, they have a TON of sugar and should be eaten in moderation when you need to lose a lot of weight. I switched to the Paleo philosophy of eating, and dropped 8 lbs like it was nothing, again, it's not true for everyone, but you WILL NOT lose weight long term by depriving yourself of nutrition and food. Your body needs good fuel in it to "reprogram" your metabolism and help you function. There's no magic cure, and if you have the discipline to eat ONLY fruits and veggies to lose what will probably amount to water weight, you have the discipline to cut back on the donuts...you'd have to during the fast anyway, right? You can do it, you just have to decide that you want too...it's hard and frustrating, but nobody can do it for you

Adding that I'm still doing Paleo and having success, mostly because I'm putting GREAT food in my body now, and I eat all the time!

Why did you post the topic if you didn't want advice? It sounds like you've already made up your mind, which is fine but you're wasting peoples time on the forums if you don't listen and justify your actions. A lot of people on this site have had the amazing success you're striving for so why not listen?

THIS!

You say you don't want to lose weight, and that's your main issue mentally. You don't want to be 300lbs but you still need to lose weight in order to gain control of you life. Fasting may help you for a week but after only eating nothing but fruits and veggies you will only lose water weight. After the week is over, if you've lost the 10lbs or not, from what I've been reading you're planning on going on a normal diet and possible exercise routine, within reason since you have a spinal injury. After fasting and eating only fruits and veggies, unless you're planning to stay vegetarian, going back to regular foods you will probably gain weight back especially if you continue to eat fast food as much as say you do. Your body will not know how to respond properly and will retain because it will not be used to what you're doing to it. Once you start getting into a proper regimen of dieting your body may take a few weeks to adjust and you will lose water weight during that time. As long as you stick with it in the long term your weight will start to drop DRASTICALLY. There are no quick fixes because the moment you stop your body will go back exactly the way it was. Also, fasting will not make you feel better or any lighter even if you lose 10lbs. Many people say they became grumpy, and felt awful because they're body was not responding well to the fast. Please do a little more research before beginning something like this. Like I said earlier, Motivation needs to happen day 1 whether you lose any weight or gain a little. As long as you stick with it and continue taking baby steps, instead of giant drastic leaps, you will lose the weight. That's a 100% promise!

There's a lot of truth to this. My body did not respond well when I would be on 1200 calories through the week and then try to eat 1800~ calories (perfectly reasonable for my height/weight) on the weekends. I would basically insta-gain back anything I had lost, and it was extremely frustrating. I fought with it for about six months before I started reading and educating myself, listening to successful people and seeing what they've done that has and has not worked for them. Once I upped my calories and maintained 1500-1700 calories a day and included regular activity (which is important, I have a desk job) ... and stuck with it for a few months, I dropped an extremely stubborn 10lbs and then some.

I think (although I have not read back over the entire thread... so, just from what I've seen) OP's reason for wanting to fast is because she is a binge-eater and exposure to certain foods can be triggers for a binge. I can understand being totally fed up with wanting results but continuing to fall to your vices over and over, getting frustrated, and going to extremes to try to change it, only to end up at square 1 again. The cycle is extremely damaging to your self-esteem and you start to feel like it doesn't matter what you do, when in actuality you just have to break the cycle. The answer most people would give is "eat right and exercise" - which is exactly correct, but the transitional process can be difficult because of the emotional and psychological ties people have with food. That doesn't mean it still isn't the right answer, it means she has psychological hurdles to overcome to get to that point. A lot of people do, and there are many reasons for it. but just like any element of our lives, it is conquerable if we believe it is and take the appropriate steps. We are more powerful than we know.

OK, I have read EVERYBODIES comments...now it's MY TURN...I gained 90 lbs with my last pregnancy and thought I was WAY TOO HEAVY...I am only 4'11", so ANY weight in that amount is bad..I weighed about 200 lbs at that point... I lived in the country and had a garden and canned my own food.....one spring, I had the opportunity to get a quantity of grapes..so I canned up a ton of grape juice...I then decided to use this to lose weight...I had ONLY this for all my meals or snacks and then at night a regular meal wth the family.. I lost a significant amount of weight, 50 lbs...but then I got sick...I was weak, fatigued, pale, my fingers hurt, my muscles hurt, I was really not doing very good..what hapened was I didn't get enough nutrients.during the time I was on this "FAST"...it took a long time to bring my body back from the mal-nutrition state I was in...when I went back to regular eating, even tho I was NOT BUYING all crap, I gained the weight back...I eventually got back up to 219 lbs, which i where I was 2 years ago when I decided enough was enough...

I started out by buying a good diet protein powder (the one I got was soy based). that I mixed wth water and then tried to cut back on my portions...I DID NOT EXERCISE THOUGH THAT WOULD HAVE GOTTEN BETTER AND QUICKER RESULTS...I have slowly lost almost 40 lbs in that time..I did however in the last year start tohave some probem with food alergies/sensiivites, and had to adjust my diet accordingly..it looks like now, I am having gluten issues..don'know if this has been all my life or whether it is more recent..but anyway, when I started using this protein shake fo rbreakfast, I found that I wasn't quite as hungry as I was before. I still had issues where if I had a donut, then I would have another, and then another..or if I bought a big bag of TWIZZLERS, I would eat the whole thing...after awhile, I was able to take just one donut.,evntualy I just did not go to the lunchroom when it was offered me.. I.used to donate to the fund for the goodeis, and BECAUSE OF THAT I FELT ENTITLED. ...so I stopped donating, and NOW I can resist without any problems..this is how I slowly made the change..and I don't keep anything in the house that I have a problem limiting my portions..at ths point, do not deny myself if I want something, but if I am buying it, I buy smalelr bags of the item, and if it is a trigger food, I buy ONLY ONE SMALL PKG at a time...and this helps me with portion control..
the point that I am trying to make,is that you need the nutrients or you will not feel or do well...and you will be hungry if you decide to do the fast you are takling about..an because you are not getting what you need, you will end up in a binge

personally I eat what my body needs, which is NUTRIENT DENSE, and light in calories if possible..I stay close to my goal of 1200 cals, sometimes I go over...I don't exercise much at this point because I was in a car accident last month, and still sore from that..of course that doesn't excuse me from the fact that didn't exercise before that..I have a desk job..

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Fasting is usually for a religious reasoning & not just to loose weight, but I just had my yearly church fast & guess what it will not help you to loose in a good way! If you do a fruit & veggie fast which is very healthy but you still should eat at least 6 small meals per day breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner, snack! Fasting could also lead to weight gain depending on your body & work out program, you may need to try & do light work outs ask your doctor or a physical therapist what can you do for a work out becase of your injury!

Let's see, SPINAL INJURY. Eating only fruits and vegetables for several days, getting in almost no protein or fat, both of which are required for any kind of healing to happen. Go ahead, make yourself much worse if you really want to, it's on you. Everybody here has given you solid advice, but if you don't want to hear it, it's on you. An injury of any kind needs protein and fat (as well as carbs) to assist in the healing process. If you take a week or two and decide you aren't going to eat any protein and fat, your injury will be unable to heal, and will most likely deteriorate quickly.

If you are not going to accept advise from people YOU ASKED who have been working hard and actually DOING IT and think you have it all figured out because you did it before and your mom did it etc, then why are you asking and arguing? Looks like you got your answer.

After a quick fast comes quick weight gain. I think resetting things with eating fruits and veggies for a few days is not a bad idea though. It could possibly get you on a really good track downwards. I would suggest you also put the scale away for a while, work your butt off, and then come back to the scale. Sometimes it gets in our way when it doesn't give us the results we want. I used to be a big girl and now people are calling me petite. It can be done but you have to find the motivation from within. If a fast helps jumpstart you, you know yourself better than we do. I use fasting every day, only eating one veggies and fruit packed meal a day with a bit of protein. I found this lifestyle through trial and error as I am a volume eater and this keeps my eating in control. You are at the beginning of the journey. It can be frustrating at times with lots of ups and downs. Find a good friend base and try to find the fire within you to want a more quality life for yourself. Otherwise, you will keep climbing. It isn't easy but it is sooo worth it. You might just find a new and better you along the way. Good luck.