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A question about diet and losing weight the unhealthy way (no lectures pls)
how much weight would I lose if I didn't eat for a week? (not saying I am planning on doing it so please don't give me lectures) I am actually just wondering because people always tend to say that you wont lose much and gain everything back and more afterwards. But this never happened to me. I was a little overweight for a while and lost around 20 pounds by not eating. I weighed around 132 lbs (I'm not very tall) And that was a year ago and I still didn't gain anything back. I don't really exercise either. (I know it's unhealthy, as I said please don't give me lectures) .. so why is it that I didn't gain it all back? I have changed the way I eat though, I eat normally now, before that I used to eat more than I should so maybe that's the reason? And once I felt really sad and didn't eat for 2 days and I lost around 4 pounds. I read that you'd only lose around 5 pounds if you don't eat for a week. Apparently not with me. I can feel how I'm getting thinner and thinner every day if I eat very little. I once lost 6 pounds in one week by only eating 500 calories or less a day. (and again I know it's unhealthy. I tend to go on crazy diets) But obviously the whole motabolism slowing down and not losing weight rule isn't really thaaat true right? And I dont think i only lost muscle either, cause I pretty much got rid of my flabby tummy which is most deffinetly not made of a lot of muscle :p so please don't tell me that I shouldn't go on crazy diets but rather tell me how this works and why I didn't gain anything back and why I'm able to actually lose quite a lot by starving and not gain it back. I am quite sick of the metabolsmn slowing down and not losing anything cause your body clings to everything he can get myth ._. Obviously it doesn't tend to be that way for everyone.
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Go high carb, low fat, whole foods, plant-based VEGAN! I went vegan this year and have lost 40 pounds, with minimal exercise, and eating AS MUCH as I desire bringing down my BMI from 30 to 24. I weigh less now than I did throughout high school, as an overweight teenager, even when I exercised for hours while on Junior Varsity and Varsity sports teams. I went to my annual physical earlier this month, and even my doctor was in shock.
My goal for next year is to lose 30-40 more pounds, I just need to start exercising on a regular basis. Nothing crazy, just 30-60 minutes of jogging, Ballet Beautiful, bike riding.. things like that.
I think it's amazing what I've accomplished so far, just by changing my diet, though. It's a lot easier to go vegan than it seems. I was never vegetarian, I went from being able to eat an entire box of pizza or entire tub of ice cream in one sitting to a full-fledged vegan. I now spend a lot less money on groceries, have more energy (never need caffeine, and never feel lethargic like I used to on a regular basis), have more concentration, am learning to cook, and etc. Try it for a week, that's how I started, and I felt so good that I just kept going, and it's now been 5 months! You can get every nutrient from plant foods, including protein!
Where do you get your protein?! 10 comebacks from a Vegan.
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The only vitamin you need to supplement is B12, and one I personally recommend is Garden of Life's B12 spray (cause I personally hate swallowing pills, and methylcobalamin is better than cyanocobalamin). You can buy it at any health foods store (Whole Foods, Sprouts, Trader Joe's, etc.), or online.
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These two movies turned me into a vegan overnight.
Forks Over Knives
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Processed People
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Cowspiracy
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Here are some good YouTube channels that have helped me, too.
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Good luck!
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Fasting is actually healthy if done right for your body to do every once in a while to give your digestive tract a rest. even people who don't need to lose weight will do a cleansing fast. You will still need liquids so be sure to get lots of that. Make some of those liquids vegetable and fruit juice mixes. Theres a guy named Jack Lalanne who later in age promoted juicing fresh veggies and jucie. He was all muscle and no fat. Read his bio on Wikipedia and look up the lalanne juicers on line. Maybe expensive but you get what you pay for. And buying the already juiced stuff in a health food store is more expensive in the long run. Do not go straight off food for your fast but allow your body to go naturally into fast like cutting down on food first till you only eat one actual meal a day and the rest is healthy juices. And finally just living on the juices for the term of your fast. My husband did 14 days of fast and lost weight but he didn't do exercise along with which his body needed to lose better. But you know yourself best. I would highly recommmend getting a juicer you can afford and doing the liquid diet rather than no nutrients at all. Less shock to the body and the weight still comes off.
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