Professional secrets of losing weight: how to prolong the feeling of fullness

The Secret of Fasting in the 21st Century - An Important Introduction

Let's start with the fact that the lack of food is a natural process in nature. You and I are part of nature, including animals, but only because of the development of our brains were we able to provide ourselves with constant access to food resources. Is it good?

No, it’s not good, because evolution followed the path of hardship and deprivation. Only under such conditions (discomfort) is it possible to move forward, i.e. development. Wild animals do not have constant access to food and often go without food for long periods of time. So this is already physiological .

Moreover, you and I have evolved under severe dietary restrictions and all body systems are fully adapted to this, this has been proven in many studies.

Moreover. Let’s assume that throughout our lives we never experience a food shortage, but in this case we must eat natural food - that’s one thing, and don’t overeat - that’s two things. The current diet cannot be called natural! Well, no way!

Why should you fast?

The word “need” can be safely removed. There is no such strict indication when the only therapeutic measure for a person is hunger. But there is an experience called therapeutic fasting. And he's interesting.

What experts who support therapeutic fasting say:

• Overeating combined with physical inactivity are the main enemies of modern man. Excess weight, cardiovascular pathologies, risks of diabetes and atherosclerosis inevitably follow the habit of eating more than necessary. Therefore, fasting not only cleanses the body, but also teaches it to reduce demands.
• Excess food poisons the body - undigested remains rot and disrupt the integrity of the microflora. And this is fraught with the development of inflammatory processes.
• Overeating weakens a person's overall immunity. Lethargy, weakness, apathy, lack of vitality, drowsiness are a consequence of improper, excess nutrition. Few people can give it up at one point, but the practice of fasting helps the body itself reduce food consumption.
• Many products contain a predominance of food additives that enhance the taste. There is a craving to eat it again and again, and as a result, overeating progresses. And if you introduce the practice of fasting into your life, the sharpness of normal taste sensations will return. And products with flavor enhancers will seem like real “chemicals” and will no longer end up in the refrigerator.

And this is only part of the possible arguments! But they are followed by completely different people - from ordinary people who are well-read and accustomed to analyzing information, to doctors of various profiles who are loyal to such methods of healing. Moreover, disputes arise even between representatives of the same profession.

For example, gastroenterologist Anatoly Bliznyuk has been practicing daily fasting for many years and argues for the benefits of this method.
But a man of the same profession, doctor Nikolai Kapralov, CMN, fundamentally disagrees with him, assuring that any fasting is an unphysiological practice. The doctor says that there cannot be breaks in nutrition, since if the hydrochloric acid produced in the stomach is not neutralized with food, it will damage the gastric mucosa. And there are dozens of different opinions. They all talk about only one thing: you need to study information and adapt it to the characteristics of your body, be critical and be able to draw impartial conclusions. By the way, another popular opinion about fasting, to which both scientists and psychotherapists are inclined, is fasting as a cult. It becomes a philosophy, a challenge to oneself, an attempt to change not so much the body as the consciousness. For this reason, in particular, believers go through a 40-day fast relatively easily, while atheists can barely last half a day in this regime .
Physiologists believe that no specialist in the world will give a competent answer as to whether fasting is beneficial. While this issue is being studied, there are many interesting experiments, studies, successful implementations of theories, but there are still enough contradictions.

Why NOT eating is healthy

The gastrointestinal tract, like all systems of a living organism, is designed in such a way that it can do one thing effectively. It actively digests food and restores its structure to a lesser extent, or does NOT digest food and is actively restored.

The latter usually happens at night, especially if you don't eat before bed. The same goes for muscles, for example. They either work (physical activity) or recover (lack of heavy loads, SLEEP).

But in the process of active and difficult digestion, the pancreas is especially heavily loaded, failures of which lead to many serious problems. The same diabetes mellitus, which affects almost 10 million . Russians!

If you give rest to the digestive system, especially after cleansing it (emptying it) so that nothing interferes with recovery, then this will have an extremely positive effect on the entire gastrointestinal tract and its glands.

Thus, after cell regeneration, the quality of food absorption will increase, digestion itself will become easier and will no longer be so stressful with its burden.

Here is a list of the benefits of fasting:

• 1) Stale food residues in the intestines, which severely poison the body (fecal stones), are removed.
• 2) There is energy and the ability to restore cells of the digestive tract, which improves their functions.
• 3) Sick and old cells are destroyed , used as energy and building material. This is the process of autophagy , which I will talk about a little later.
• 4) The level of somatotropic hormone increases, which restores tissue and is responsible for burning fat.
• 5) Fat-soluble toxins are actively released from adipose tissue, which were deposited there due to the fact that they could not be dissolved in water in order to be eliminated from the body.

This is very important and beneficial for our health, because... otherwise, we are a huge repository of toxins, which, like a time bomb, kill us the more actively the more of them.

Delicious lard? But it’s full of fat-soluble toxins and vitamins (the excess of which is also dangerous). Or did you think the pigs are fed high-quality food and given vitamin C injections, and not antibiotics?

• 6) Most likely, you will experience a positive reassessment of your worldview. You will be able to look at food from a completely different angle. The kind you haven't looked at.
• 7) During short-term fasting, fat reserves are burned.
• Increases insulin sensitivity (diabetes prevention).
• 9) Reducing the risk of cardiovascular diseases.
• 10) The taste buds are cleansed, making the taste of food more vibrant.

Minuses:

• 1) During prolonged fasting, protein tissue is significantly burned, because First, proteins are used as energy, and only then fats. This is physiology.

Protein tissue is primarily muscles and organs. But muscle tissue and organs will recover after fasting, but in this case, during fasting, a significant part of the diseased cells (pathological) cells will be destroyed, because They are the ones that break down first.

• 2) Prolonged fasting causes the effect of severe irritability, aggressiveness and apathy.

• 3) If there are a lot of fat-soluble toxins in the body, then poisoning occurs, because they all enter the bloodstream, even if it is a one-day fast. And at first glance it may seem that what the hell is fasting, but these toxins ARE REMOVED, albeit at such a cost. Otherwise, they will continue to poison us.

Let's now look at the process of fasting from the scientific side.

[email protected]: how to force yourself to starve?

You can't go hungry. Only if you specifically want to get better. The fact is that the body is very complex and rational. Hunger is a signal to turn on the processes of increased accumulation of energy substrate in the body (read: fat). You'll gain weight, of course, if you don't eat. Then you will gain even more weight faster than you lost. Like this. Feedback in action. Check it out for yourself if you want. Only then it is not known how to break this vicious circle. I don't think anyone knows. Otherwise, the problem of obesity would have already been solved in the world.

look in the mirror =)))

Exhaustion doesn’t make anyone look good, but it adds a ton of soreness.

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Just don’t think about food, do what you love (not food), and drink green tea. I do this once every 2 months, weight control (I don’t eat for 1 week.)

Anarexia is a SCARY THING...

Don’t do this.. otherwise it will be really scary to look in the mirror..

Only when you hear a terrible diagnosis (God forbid, I don’t want this), only then. It's impossible otherwise.

There is no need to starve, it is harmful to health, but you can go on a diet.

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Nobel Prize 2021

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  Yoshinori Ohsumi

It was this year that the Nobel Prize was awarded to the Japanese scientist, molecular biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi, for the discovery of the process of autophagy.

Autophagy , in simple words, is the process of destruction of defective and unnecessary cell components and their further use as building material and energy.

The autophagy process starts in the following cases:

• lack of energy (nutrients)
• damaged areas of cells and the presence of partially broken down proteins in the fluid contents of the cell (as a vital process)

Thanks to autophagy, we have the opportunity to constantly renew tissues and maintain energy balance in the body.

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Add some flavor to your next meal by dicing an avocado and tossing it into your lunch salad. Adding just half an avocado to your usual meals can prolong the feeling of fullness - and make you feel kinder for the next 5 hours.

Scientific Research on Fasting

At the moment, there are already many scientific studies with dietary restrictions for various animals, from mice to primates and including humans. Studies provide clear results on simpler animals such as mice and small primates, and also provide many indirect factors of benefit for humans. However, they do not give clear answers about the 100% benefits of fasting for people, BUT they also do not refute it!

Briefly about the essence of experiments using mice as an example

Take 4 control groups:

• 1 eats any amount of junk food
• 2 eats any amount of species-specific (healthy) food
• 3 eats limited junk food
• 4 eats limited species (healthy) food

Group 1 has the worst life expectancy and morbidity rates.

Surprisingly , the 3rd group is slightly ahead of the 2nd group in terms of life expectancy and quality of life! It’s surprising, because they ate all sorts of rubbish, but in limited quantities, and it turned out to be less harmful than eating correctly but uncontrollably.

And the most significant result was in group 4, which ate properly and limitedly!

If anyone is interested, look at the research on this topic, there are many of them. Here are some of them (in English):

The effects of intermittent fasting on health and disease processes(link will open in a new tab)The hunger hormone fibroblast growth factor-21 increases lifespan in mice(link will open in a new tab)Intermittent fasting has been shown to reduce Salmonella typhimurium infection in middle-aged mice(link will open in a new tab) Intermittent fasting with or without exercise prevents weight gain and improves lipid metabolism in mice (link will open in a new tab)

Conclusion: by eating right and sometimes limiting yourself in food, you can achieve a very high level of health!

Advice : start fasting no more than once a week, or better for a couple of months, once every 2 weeks, to prepare and adapt the body smoothly.

General information

Fasting is a very effective technique not only for getting rid of excess weight , but also for treating a number of diseases. If a person approaches the organization of fasting correctly, adheres to all the important rules in the process and does not forget about the right way out, fasting ensures cleansing and weight loss. In addition, it helps to rejuvenate the body and provides overall health. Practicing fasting for weight loss is preferable to dieting. After all, hunger helps to “reboot” the body and not only eliminates excess weight, but also eliminates the causes of its appearance. This article will discuss how to fast for weight loss at home and what you need to know to get the maximum positive effect.

My fasting experience

In 2021, I began to actively study the topic of fasting and plant-based nutrition for health. Since I was actively involved in strength sports, I couldn’t imagine how it would be not to eat on time, especially not to eat for 1 day. Not to mention not eating 18 days like I did later.

When I started trying short one-day fasts, I did not notice any negative changes, especially it turned out to be NOT difficult at all. My skin's appearance has improved significantly, the blueness under my eyes has gone away, and I even have more energy! There is especially a lot of free time on fasting days, when you don’t need to spend time preparing and eating food.

The terrible secret of food

A very important thing that happened during fasting was a revaluation of the role of food in life. When I started my first long fast, on day 3 I realized how much our lives are permeated with food. Wherever you go, there is FOOD everywhere! To the cinema, to the museum, to the park, to the shopping center, everywhere there is somewhere to eat.

• All around there are food shops, cafes, restaurants, canteens. I don't want to eat! And we eat, and even more than that, we OVEREAT.

Food gives us emotions that we MISS in our modern life and this is a big problem. This is where many psychological problems arise, including eating disorders, stress eating, and the like!

All cultural values ​​are built around the table. Almost all negotiations, family gatherings, with friends, etc. - pass at the table! All traditions are built around a table with food. Feed the guests, stuff them with food, and more, despite the fact that this contradicts the natural needs of the body.

And by the way, my goal during fasting was not at all to lose excess weight; this can be done in a more rational way - by creating a competent diet. If you suddenly need help in losing weight and creating a diet, as well as training, then you can contact me for help.

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In general, I hope you will find useful conclusions for yourself when you fast. Now let's talk about how to start fasting and what to do first.

Starvation. Fasting for weight loss

In the Diet section: Skin after weight loss

The second statement, by the way, is more than erroneous. By choosing to completely abstain from food in order to correct the shortcomings of our figure, we cause irreparable harm to our health. At first glance, where is it simpler? Stopped eating and lost weight. But along with the kilograms, you will “lose” your health if you so thoughtlessly and one-sidedly approach the process of losing weight or, if you want, healing your body.

Therefore, it is more correct to use the term “ therapeutic fasting ”. Because if you don’t approach food refusal as a healing process, then fasting will turn into a torture process. So, everything is according to science.

“….think about the soul”

First - the emotional mood. Before starting fasting, you should accustom yourself for several days to the idea that giving up your favorite foods is not a terrible thing at all, but natural. Convince yourself that cleansing your body is a reward for some unnecessary worries about not eating a sausage sandwich. Turn to spiritual experiences, occupy your thoughts with what is dear to you morally. Religion, raising children, love experiences. That is, everything that in ordinary life, without fasting, forces us to stop elevating food to the rank of a cult. After all, when you are experiencing, for example, the excitement of love, you are unlikely to think about a hearty lunch. In this regard, believers prepare themselves very well for fasting. Remember about regular church fasts. Your correct emotional background before starting fasting will ensure the correct brain reaction to the stress caused by not eating. The correct reaction is that the brain does not recognize the danger and stops sending hunger signals, and accordingly stops producing stress hormones.

"Attention! A second wind is opening!”

On the third day of fasting, the hormone serotonin begins to be actively produced, along with it the fasting person awakens to a feeling of inner harmony and satisfaction, and the senses of smell and touch intensify. This reaction of the body is easily explained. With a normal diet, our body spends a lot of energy on digesting food, and when we refuse it, the saved energy is spent on healing from illnesses and self-regulation of the body.

There are different types of hunger

The system of therapeutic fasting allows for several approaches.

The first and most strict. Complete refusal of food in any form. The daily diet consists of 2-3 liters of water or herbal tea. Doctors are much more understanding of a different approach to fasting. When the patient consumes 500 kcal daily through liquid food: proteins (whey, soy milk), minerals and vitamins (vegetable broths and fresh fruit and vegetable juices), fatty acids (cold-pressed vegetable oil). This form of fasting is easier for the body to tolerate and causes much less harm.

In fact, methods and types of fasting , but all of them, one way or another, overlap with each other, and their names speak for themselves. Week-long fasting, one-day fasting, water fasting, dry fasting, long-term fasting, complete fasting.

Doctors recommend an average of seven days of fasting. And begin the transition to normal nutrition gradually. On the last day of fasting, you can and should eat an apple for lunch, chewing it thoroughly, and vegetable soup for dinner. It is better to carry out a course of fasting 1-2 times a year, but it is not recommended to do this in winter, at the height of respiratory viral diseases.

Live to lose weight or lose weight to live?

The first thing that comes to our minds when we realize that it’s time to lose weight is whether to give up food altogether? It seemed easier: if you don’t eat, the extra pounds leave your body. He, the poor thing, needs to eat something. So let him eat his own subcutaneous fat! The cause of our moral suffering! There is some truth in such judgments. But it's not that simple. Firstly, sudden weight loss leads to irreversible consequences in the body. Secondly, the kilograms that literally melt before our eyes during fasting just as quickly return to their places after the end of the course. And they also take a few kilograms with them “in reserve” to be on the safe side: what if you start experimenting with nutrition again? And then the result turns out to be even more disastrous than what was observed at the very beginning of the journey!

The only way out for you, if you still decide to take drastic measures to deal with your excess weight and “survive” the kilograms by fasting, is to change not only your eating pattern, but also your consciousness. Get ready to completely overhaul your lifestyle. So that the return to duty of those who have breakfast, lunch and dinner does not become excruciatingly painful for you. And perestroika consists of a constant (!) refusal to overeat, from all kinds of excesses, from coffee and nicotine, and to reduce alcohol intake to a minimum. And, of course, increased physical activity.

The creator of the modern system of therapeutic fasting, American Paul Bragg, argued that a person can go without food for 2-3 weeks, which will only bring benefits to the body. To support his words, here is a fact: Bragg lived until he was ninety-five years old, and died while windsurfing. So why are we worse?

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Proper preparation for fasting

The most ideal option would be to eat lightly the day before fasting. Those. We eat vegetables, fruits, herbs, and the maximum animal product is kefir .

Let's say we planned fasting for Saturday, then on Friday we eat lightly. Next, there are 2 ways of fasting. Very effective and simply good:

Very effective way

Let’s say on Friday we finish our last meal at 3 p.m. maximum. Then at 19:00 we drink a laxative. I recommend magnesium sulfate, I’ve taken it myself many times and it cleans everything perfectly. Take one sachet (25g) per 30 kg of body weight. I took 3 sachets (75 g).

Magnesium sulfate is sold at any pharmacy. Dilute it in a large glass of water and drink it while holding your nose, because... it is bitter and not very pleasant to the taste. Next, drink plenty of water for 2 hours.

• You need to drink about 2 - 3 liters, because... Magnesium sulfate attracts a lot of water, which is why bowel movements occur. If we don't drink water, the water will be drawn out of our cells, which can kill them.

After about 1 hour (maybe more, this is very individual), the urge to go to the toilet will begin, which will last for about 2-4 hours. You can start the procedure a little earlier, for example at 17:00, then the last time is better at 13:00.

Active excretion will be approximately 3-4 times, then it will come out a little at a time and this will not cause any problems. In general, prepare a newspaper in the toilet))

Then go to bed at your usual time. Just in case someone doesn’t understand, after taking a laxative we no longer eat food, JUST DRINK clean WATER!

• Firstly, with this option, our intestines will be empty, and accordingly nothing will interfere with its recovery.
• Secondly, we lack a source of nutrients (food in the gastrointestinal tract), which instantly switches the body to using its own resources.

Just a good way

Just the day before fasting, we eat light food throughout the day, eating as usual, along with dinner. This option switches the body to internal resources later, but it is easier in terms of preparation and sensations during fasting.

How much weight can you lose?

The weight loss table will help you find out how much you can lose by fasting.

However, a number of other important factors influence weight loss:

• Age – the younger a person is, the faster he loses weight.
• Fasting experience - beginners lose weight faster than experienced people.
• Body type – the more excess weight a person has, the faster he loses it.
• Physical activity - if a person is fasting, it should be minimal.
• Carrying out additional procedures - baths, massages, enemas, saunas stimulate weight loss.
• The right way out - abstaining from food will only be effective if it is the right way out.

The fasting process - how to fast 1 day a week correctly

On Saturday, during the day of fasting, we drink water when thirsty, but it is better to drink more to help remove waste products from the body. Here's some advice - you can drink warm water to eliminate the feeling of hunger when it appears.

• Although in reality this is not a feeling of hunger, but only the urge of the stomach to put something in it, because physiological hunger (at the cellular level) is impossible in such a short period of time and it begins at least 1-2 days later.

In the usual version, you can already have dinner on the day of fasting ; ideally, this is eaten the next morning. Those. The last time they ate was in the afternoon or evening on Friday, and then on either Saturday evening (24 hours of fasting) or Sunday morning (36 hours). We will look further at what to eat after fasting.

how to start and how not to fail?

It is quite popularly described in the book “The Miracle of Fasting” by Paul Brag. I have 17 years of experience in periodic fasting, including dry fasting for 5 days. Normal, 10 days, or in case of a cold or flu until recovery (3-7 days). The effect is amazing. The body rejuvenates and returns to normal. After the first one, there was no need to persuade. For me, the most effective means of healing. I don’t use enemas for dry conditions.

fasting is basically wrong

This is for a nutritionist. Each body has its own way of dieting, hunger strike is very dangerous!!!

You need to start abruptly) ) and after about a week, if you have the will, it becomes easier, and you can let yourself go a little)

Over the course of several days, reduce portions and eat “light” foods. You fast for no more than 3-4 days, after the end of the hunger strike for a few more days you slowly begin to increase portions to your norm. During fasting, drink 2.5-3 liters of water per day. Advice from a professional nutritionist.

fasting is for healing, not for losing weight. Try starting with two days and not dry, but with water, look at your body’s reaction. When you stop fasting, during the day take only pureed (boiled or fresh vegetables) and non-acidic fruits, then gradually return to normal food intake. To answer in more detail, you need to know the reason why you want to go on a hunger strike, and your condition, contraindications, etc.

There is no CORRECT fasting!!! ! You can drink low-fat kefir during the day, and eat normally the rest of the day, but fasting for a long time is contraindicated!! ! I KNOW FOR MYSELF!!!! Yes, you lose weight strongly and decisively, but the problems that come later... I can’t get rid of them for many years!!!!

fasting is very harmful, since the body begins to take proteins from muscle mass, and not fat at all, for normal functioning. In addition, it can have a bad effect on the stomach. If you want to cleanse your body and lose weight in this way, then I would recommend the Colo-Vada cleansing system. there is also a slight fast, but during this period you drink a sorbent, thanks to which toxins are removed and you feel full, in addition, you also drink vitamins and minerals separately to maintain the normal functioning of the body. If interested, write, I’ll tell you.

How to get ready for fasting?

Almost everyone is afraid, they are afraid of not being able to stand it, of breaking down. You need to treat this as a new experience that may not work out the first time. You can come up with a reward for yourself for a successful experiment. You can write down your feelings and impressions in a diary and feel free to praise yourself for your discipline.

You need to set realistic goals. If it's just about losing weight, there will probably be a lot of disappointment. If this is a benefit for the body, a fight against overeating, a person understands that a one-time action cannot get rid of it. He is committed to long-term practice and repetition of experience. That is, this is a more serious motivation.

General rules of fasting

Despite the serious differences in the methods, there are common points in them.

Remember:

• It makes sense to start fasting with a daily course;
• entering the course is always accompanied by a full exit from it;
• you need to promptly respond to the body’s request to empty the intestines and bladder (do not tolerate it);
• physical exercise is not contraindicated during short-term fasting;
• During fasting, you need to find time every day for self-massage or massage (this way the internal organs are stimulated).

The main advice is to try to enlist the support of a specialist.