If you go on a water fast for ten days, you can expect to lose about one pound a day. correct?

Answer 1

Being that fat is water soluable you will lose some fat.The majority of the weight you will lose will be lean muscle mass.Your body needs carbs to make glycogen,with out carbs,your body will use protein to make it.Now if you are not eating anything wher do you think the materials for glycogen synthesis will come from your own body

Answer 2

I went on a water fast for 18 days and lost a total of 15 pounds. But I am a construction worker and kept right on working, so I was guaranteed to lose weight. Be carefull when you introduce food back into your system though, as your digestive system has been at rest. You will have to start with a chicken broth every few hours and then gradually move into heavier foods.

Fasting is the world's most ancient and natural healing mechanism. Fasting triggers a truly wondrous cleansing process that reaches right down to each and every cell and tissue in the body. Within 24 hours of curtailing food intake, enzymes stop entering the stomach and travel instead into the intestines and into the bloodstream, where they circulate and gobble up all sorts of waste matter, including dead and damaged cells, unwelcome microbes, metabolic wastes, and pollutants. All organs and glands get a much-needed and well-deserved rest, during which their tissues are purified and rejuvenated and their functions balanced and regulated. The entire alimentary canal is swept clean. By rebuilding immunity, health is naturally restored and disease disappears. If health and immunity are thereafter conscientiously maintained, the individual is no longer vulnerable to disease and dieting becomes unnecessary. Surely one of the most overlooked and yet most valuable modes of healing that will be rediscovered in the future of the new medicine is the fast. This is because of the increasing interest in looking to oneself for healing powers. For the fast is an inward process and cannot be entered upon only from an outer approach with any expectation of a lasting benefit. The person must invariably be involved with the overall results. This therapeutic encounter is in direct contrast to the usual non-involvement in the physician-directed, disease-oriented medical practice of today.

Enjoy Your Fast...

Answer 3

Not quite. If you go on a water fast for 30 days you'll lose around 37 pounds ... but you should NEVER try to 'lose weight' through fasting ... because as soon as you start eating again, you'll gain ALL YOU LOST BACK! Just diet healthy and sensibly ... eat 1,500 calories of 'healthy food' and do 2000 calories worth of 'exercize' (sleeping burns calories too!) and you'll lose an average of 2 pounds per week. That is THE BEST DIET because it's 'reasonable' and you won't 'yo-yo' in weight ... and because your 'loss' is slower, you can 'keep your weight' at the 'optimum' much more easily.

Answer 4

you will lose a pound a day, and it will all be water weight. Your body will be starving, and in starvation mode, the body will conserve fat, hold onto it grimly infact, burning bone and muscle before it will burn fat. This creates toxins in the blood stream that can make you really ill. Then, when the fast is over and you start to eat? Every single calorie you take in, will be instantly stored as fat for the next two weeks, until the body finally comes out of starvation mode. Result, you weigh more than when you started, and you feel terrible.

Answer 5

That is incorrect, I went on a water fast for 3 months and did not even lose 5 pounds.

Answer 6

it's possible, but chances are you'll get dehydrated, especially with it being in the middle of summer. not to mention the fact that you'll gain all that weight back when you're fast is over because you'd only be losing water weight. don't do it. it's not in any way a good idea.

Answer 7

No, actually your body will go into starve mode. you will gain weight. Everything you do eat will turn into fat. Please don't do that to yourself. Loose weight the right way. Cut calories and exercise. Healthy weight loss is about 2-3 pounds a week. Any more than that and you might get saggy ,excess skin. Be health and happy.

Answer 8

If all youre having is water for ten days, you can expect to lose CONSCIOUSNESS in about 4 days

Answer 9

Sure, but you die after 3 days. Water isn't the part of your weight you need to lose anyhow. If you are retaining water try salt pills. You still need water though.

Answer 10

I would think it would depend on how much water you're drinking. And I have to say, that's not a healthy way to lose weight, you're going to be starving yourself.