I have researched all kinds of information on this topic and I just want to get some opinions. I am on day 20 of a who knows how long this will last water fast, I am supplementing and very closely listening to my body and I’m not sure how long ill take this I guess just until my body says enough haha or until my husband gets tierd of eating alone… So please feel free to share knowledge or experiences! I couldnt find a topic on this anywhere on here so yeah(: share away! What do you think about fasting until your at a good healthy weight? Given you feel well and are being safe.
Water Fasting till goal weight is met?
Sarah_Bruhn
(Sarah Bruhn)
#2
It seems logical to me that humans have needed to fast periodically in times of food shortage, it seems logical that this is precisely why we store fat and store it so efficiently. And seems logial that it would be safe to do so until we reached a body fat percentage that our body deemed safe. I am on a 7 day fast and i’m building up, My plan is to do a 28 day fast over November this year.
ava_ad0re
(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja )
#3
Just responding as I want to follow this post but don’t want to bookmark it, thanks 
SlowBurnMary
#4
I think that with medical case management, very extended water fasting for obese and morbidly obese folks - as well as those facing down cellular dysplasia - can go well very supplementation with proper minerals, salt, etc. There may well be detoxing effects or unexpected conditions that surface in the process that really benefit from having health guardians/physicians watching over you, for sure. However, medically supervised fasting may not be an option for those who don’t have access to good medical care, and that’s a fact, and a risk.
Being already very low carb beforehand makes a world of difference though - creates a gentler transition from what I understand. In the Romanian keto researcher Christi Vlad’s book “Periodic Fasting: Repair your DNA, Grow Younger, and Learn to Appreciate your Food” which I really enjoy diving into frequently (some sections are very heavy on the science but I am grokking it more and more) he looks at a number of interesting historical and more modern documented cases of fasting - including one fellow who fasted over 300 days apparently (can’t recall if it was with supplementation, I assume so?)
It’s quite a powerful self-recovery and transformation! Brings to mind the caterpillar’s cocoon, which then becomes a hard-shelled chrysalis where the caterpillar’s body melts down into a liquid cellular soup of imaginal cells - which then recompose in ways still beyond scientific understanding, to emerge as a totally different all-natural creature: a butterfy!!!
For the non-obese, water fasting for 3 days seasonally or yearly can fulfill amazing autophagy processes, and apparently no more days are needed beyong that, as autophagy benefits are fully maxxed at the end of day 3, according to Dr. Fung.
For the non-obese though, there is also the fact of eating disorders and a caution that for those who suffer from them, fat-adapted “fasting” can still be a disorder in that case. Considering that high numbers of non-obese adolescent females in the industrial world (and also a concerning number of non-obese adolescent males) have serious eating disorders nowadays, it’s worth mentioning - as fasting is not advised for those in their developmental brain years regardless of obesity. However, LCHF/keto combined with resistance weights/strength training can do speedy wonders for obese children according to Fred Hahn’s work.
atomicspacebunny
(Bunny)
#5
Interesting thing about fasting is that it makes the flight or fight responsiveness more acute, better for hunting game in hunter gatherer days when a bag of Doritos and a donut was not so conveniently available at the quicky mart down the street. Killing a donut is so much easier…lol
Rajseth
(Raj Seth)
#6
You could fast till you lose everything. Has been done. Is one method.
Some questions are - how’s your metabolism? Ht Wt Age Sex? History of old style calorie restriction?
All of these factors can impact what happens
If your BMR is slow, fasting will not be as effective. You may be better served by healing your metabolism with some feasting interspersed with fasting. Then, the fast will be a higher energy, high fat utilization process
Spaspermuffin
(Brandi)
#7
Love the input so far! You all make fabulous points. I am 24 female 5’7", my ideal body weight as told by my Dr is 150 and currently I am 26 pounds away from that, I was already fat adapted when I first began the fast and plan to keep living keto after as well. There have been times before I knew about the right way of eating where I yoyo dieted and restricted calories to 800 or 500 a day (with little sucsess) so my body certainly did need to have repair time being that before keto I was 230 pounds and loved all food!
Spaspermuffin
(Brandi)
#8
That is wonderful! All the best luck to you(: thatvis some think that I think about as well though, becasue my body does have plenty of fat to run on!
Spaspermuffin
(Brandi)
#9
SlowBurnMary I will have to check that out!! I enjoy learning any information I can so thank you!
EyesWideOpen
(Jeanne Wagner)
#10
Have you met your goal weight via the water fasting, and kept it stable via keto as planned?