If fasting for 40 days will it make your stomach smaller?

Answer 1

i assume so.

Answer 2

You will not starve. You will not instantly become thin. Fasting is consuming only liquids. When the body does not have to deal with digesting solid food and getting rid of the waste that solid food creates, it can concentrate on getting rid of toxins. The most common reason to fast is to eliminate disease or from the body.



How much weight will I lose?

The main benefit offered by a fast, to those who wish to lose weight, is the speed of the weight loss. To see a person drop 30-to-40 pounds in a 30-day juice fast is to see a person totally transform his life. Self-esteem is given a boost and for the first time in their life, discipline becomes a lifestyle. The fast becomes a catalyst for a total life overhaul. People start dressing better, showing more confidence, becoming more organized, more dedicated in relationships and more at peace.

Initially, weight loss can be as high as three-to-four pounds per day, but as the fast continues, the average loss will be one pound-per-day. If you are juice fasting and not losing weight, the juice is supplying all the calories you need. You may have to cut down on the juices or alternate between water fasting and juice fasting if losing weight is part of your goal. The slower your metabolism is the slower the weight loss.

Try to stay focused on the healthy things you are doing to improve your life rather than being consumed with the number of pounds lost each day. Water retention can vary your weight five pounds so watching the scale can be frustrating. The best motivation to fast is for physical and spiritual health. Be patient; the fasting process is slow. Be thankful the toxins are leaving your body. Do not have unrealistic expectations. Give your body the time it needs to do the work of cleansing.

Fasting And Metabolism

The fear is that while fasting, the metabolism will slow down and afterward there will be more weight gained than before the fast. Initially, any calorie reduction will cause a lowering in the BMR or base metabolic rate. Cleansing will bring health that will increase metabolic performance and energy output. In other words, you will eat less and feel more energetic.

After fasting, the body is more efficient. Digestion is better due to a cleaner colon. The colon walls have been cleansed of impacted feces, allowing improved absorption of nutrients. The good news is that greater efficiency equals enhanced energy. Healthy people burn more calories. They also eat less because they are more active and feel better about themselves. They don't need food as a security blanket.

The greatest impact you can have on increasing your resting metabolism is exercise. After a workout, you can be sitting on the couch reading while burning calories, as the muscles are grabbing glucose from the blood to replace glycogen supplies. The key to weight loss is fewer calories and more exercise. A diet high in raw food provides fewer, low-density calories, and higher-fiber, more-filling foods.

Oh, by the way, a slower metabolism diminishes aging. A tortoise can live to 400 hundred years of age.

Answer 3

it depends -
if you mean no food no water, you'll die in a week and it won't matter.
if you mean eating after dark like it was ramadan, i guess it would work.
truth is, fasting for 40 days will make your stomach smaller, along with the rest of your muscle mass, and internal organs until you are literally a walking skeleton - i know somebody who did this and it was ******' gross.
get smart and do a little research (and excercise) for a real diet.

Answer 4

U'll lose weight cuz u won't be eating nething. of course u'll be losing weight.. and if u are fat in the stomache area then u're going to lose some of it.
just remember to drink a lot of water so u don't do major damage to ur body while u r fasting.
and are you fasting for the right reason?
otherwise are u just trying to starve urself for 40 days and call it fasting?

Answer 5

Starving yourself is not the right answer. By doing this, you will burn muscle and not fat. The moment you start eating regularly again, you'll look even worse.

What you need to do is learn how to eat right, and combine that with a regular exercise schedule.

Try eating this.
meal, snack, meal, snack, meal

Figure out your calorie consumption and match it up with the plan. Snacks should be 100-200 cals, and meals 400-600 cals depending on weight. Check out http://www.3hourdiet.com/home/index.php, this and exercising helped me get my waist back down to 31.

Answer 6

The stomach itself will shrink due to the fact that no food is being placed into it and thus stretching it. However, outward appearance may not be considerably noticeable, just be sure to drink lots of water.

Answer 7

first off why would you do that to your body? You know that if doing that to your body first off that is not safe and may and most likely do more harm than good. Why would anyone want to do that to ones body and think it is okay. I have a great friend that weights less than 125 lbs. and still thinks and is called overweight but we all know that is not true and she still eats what she wants but not a lot of what she wants because of what she has been told about her weight

Answer 8

no food for 40 days?? it will make ure stomach smaller, but it was also probably kill you

Answer 9

Depends, if you have extra stretch skin then no, If its overweight skin then yes.. You will probably lose anywhere to 5-10lbs.

Answer 10

Well the rest of you will be smaller :)

Answer 11

yeah, it's called the nicole richie diet