The Impact of Fasting on Metabolism and Weight Loss:

Fing is becoming increasingly popular in the United States as a detoxification process. It may indeed serve t purpose, but some people try to f for other reasons-such as rapid weight loss. The effectiveness of fing as a dieting technique is questionable, at best. The reason has to do with the impact of fing on metabolism.

Our bodies have evolved to behave in ways t benefited our survival ten thousand years ago, not necessarily in ways t seem sensible to modern expectations. One of the key disconnects is the way the metabolism works. When we don't eat much, the body assumes t this condition is being forced upon us by external factors, like a famine or food shortage of some sort. (In other words, the hunting party didn't come back with any buffalo steaks to fry up.) In case this food shortage continues, the body quickly ramps down your metabolism, burning cales more slowly and attempting to retain as much body fat as possible, just in case you need those energy stores.

Nothing triggers this process as aggressively as fing. Switching to a near-zero cale diet sends the metabolism into panic mode. When you f, your body's going to try very hard to conserve the fat stores you already have. While it's true t you can't really gain weight on a f, don't expect to lose much, either.

A more sensible approach to dieting is to employ cale shifting. By varying the types of food and quantity of food t you eat at each meal, you can stimulate the metabolism into burning more fat fer. The only drawback to cale shifting diets is t they're hard to set up. The FatLoss4Idiots Web site, however, can walk you through the process, taking your favte foods and turning them into a cale shifting menu. Incredible weight loss is possible if you follow a cale shifting plan-as much as 9 pounds in 11 days.