Fasting And Weight Gain

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Every year I gave up snacks, candy, sweets, cake, meat, dairy,ice cream, adult beverages and basically starve myself for lent and do not lose any weight, noteven one pound.

[Archaeology cat]

Starving yourself isn't a good way to lose weight, b/c then your metabolism slows down.

[Winchester]

It's punishment. Men don't diet to lose weight. They rassles.

[KeenanParkerII]

I'm actually happy to hear this. I was worried about weight loss because I don't carry a heck of a lot of weight as it is.

[Ephrem Augustine]

You give things up to free you up to love God and neighbor more, not to get advantages for yourself.

[YMNolan]

It's hard not to think about it, but fasting should not be done to lose weight. In fact for me, I am on a strict diet and know that fasting will throw it off, but I've just got to offer that up. I'm fasting to enter more fully into Lent and to get closer to Christ. If it disrupts my attempts at weight loss and getting fit, so be it.

[CatherineM]

I get below a certain calorie level, and I don't lose weight at all. Sometimes I can even gain weight. I'm genetically designed for long periods of famine I guess. I've also had damage to my thyroid, so that doesn't help.

[brightsadness]

Sometimes "fast foods" are overloaded with carbs and fat. Prostrations help.[img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[rachael]

i don't remember the last time i ate fast food.

[elizabeth09]

I can not remember either. It been that long.

[brightsadness]

[quote name='rachael' date='17 February 2010 - 12:31 PM' timestamp='1266435112' post='2058419']
i don't remember the last time i ate fast food. [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif[/img]
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By "fast food" I mean no meat or dairy. You know, fasting foods, vegan.[img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/lol_roll.gif[/img]

Edited February 17, 2010 by brightsadness

[elizabeth09]

Got ya!

[Domine ut Videam]

[quote name='Archaeology cat' date='17 February 2010 - 07:15 AM' timestamp='1266408912' post='2058253']
Starving yourself isn't a good way to lose weight, b/c then your metabolism slows down.
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This is very true. Also, if your aren't getting enough of your caloric needs met you should be aware that if you do lose weight from a severely restricted diet, the weight is firstly water weight and then if your body is starving it takes from your muscles first. It literally starts eating its own muscles (such as the heart and brain). When the body thinks that it is starving it latches onto the fat reserves in the body. On a starvation diet you lose muscle mass, not fat; then after you start eating normally again you are likely to gain weight because the body will take it all and put it into additional fat stores. (the body thinks there is a famine....) Basically any weight lost through starvation is usually doubled when normal eating resumes.

Other side effects of a starvation diet include, but are not limited to: lowered immune function, severe exhaustion, damaged metabolism, dehydration, nausea, fainting....

Overall, it is very unhealthy. Please don't do this to your body, its extremely damaging and makes you feel like croutons. Take it from someone who knows.

Edited February 17, 2010 by Domine ut Videam

[jkaands]

[quote name='apparently' date='17 February 2010 - 06:07 AM' timestamp='1266408444' post='2058251']
Every year I gave up snacks, candy, sweets, cake, meat, dairy,ice cream, adult beverages and basically starve myself for lent and do not lose any weight, not even one pound.


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You may be eating more non-forbidden foods, that you aren't keeping track of- bread, potatoes, pasta, peanut butter.
Portion control is important in 'dieting'--I don't like that term--and hard to control, partic if you eat out.

[cmotherofpirl]

[quote name='apparently' date='17 February 2010 - 08:07 AM' timestamp='1266408444' post='2058251']
Every year I gave up snacks, candy, sweets, cake, meat, dairy,ice cream, adult beverages and basically starve myself for lent and do not lose any weight, noteven one pound.


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Depends on your definition of starve, and how many carbs you [b]are[/b] eating. If you really wanted to lose weight you would give up pizza, pasta, potatoes, corn, and live on broccoli and brown rice.