Fasting for weight loss

I remember someone wrote in the comment section a few years ago: "I'm on day 42 of a liquid fast."

I asked: "Why are you doing this?"

He said: "So I can shorten the time it takes me to get from 132 to 109 kg."

We have a lot of people who have lost 40-50 kilograms, many who have lost 60 and a few who have lost 70 and even 80 kg.

People who have been keeping their figure for many years.

✅ NO FASTING

No person has ever fasted more than twice a year for not more than a few days.

We used to have a tradition at Body Engineering: fasting before Easter and Christmas. It was something optional, it had nothing to do with religion. We gave that up in the meantime.

It was like a challenge, to see what our bodies could do:

• 10 pull-ups, 50 push-ups, 100 squats, an ice bath or 3 days of fasting.

Fasting for 2-3 days once a year can be an experience or a celebration, not a punishment after the last slip-up.

But doing it more longer or more often than that? I don't think it's a good idea.

Pour yourself a big cup of coffee because what will follow will be a synthesis of pros and cons about fasting, intermittent fasting and OMAD.

✅ FASTING MAKES YOU LOSE WEIGHT

The lack of food certainly makes you lose weight. For years, I've been advocating for skipping breakfast.

When the digestion of the last meal is finished, the body will start consuming from fat reserves – until the next meal. Logically.

Fat was created for all mammals as a backup battery for when food is scarce.

✅ MAYBE LESS IS MORE?

• You're going to say: "If skipping one meal is ok, wouldn’t skipping 30 meals (10 days) or 120 meals (40 days) be better?"

• It's like saying, "If it's okay to run 4 km, wouldn't it be better if I ran 42 km?"

• Just because you run 4 km today doesn't mean you can (and should) run 42 km tomorrow.

• It's like saying, "If a 15-minute sauna is good for me, wouldn't it be better for me to stay in there for 2 hours?"

Obviously not.

• It's like saying, "If a 2-minute ice bath is good for me, wouldn't 30 minutes be even more beneficial?"

Without proper training, you could get hypothermia and die. So, it's definitely not okay.

If you're wondering, my personal best is 30 minutes – I did that during my second Wim Hof ​​ Camp in Poland.

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✅ SWEET SPOT

Basically, if you have too little stimulus, you won't get any benefits.

If you have too much stimulus, you can enter the destruction zone.

I think the idea would be to find that sweet spot that suits you, right now, at the point where you are in your life.

Maybe you did 2-3 sauna sessions of 20 minutes each when you were 20 years old, back when you were an athlete.

But at 40 years old, when you’re 30 kg overweight, with a fatty liver, after 20 years of smoking and drinking, it may not be advisable to behave like a 20 year old.

The sweet spot may now be 10 minutes of sauna. Or not at all.

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✅ CANNIBALISM

Let's go back to fasting.

The more time passes since the previous meal, you have a greater chance to lose muscle tissue in addition to fat.

Of course, if you have 50-60 kilograms of fat, you can probably fast for 2 or 3 days without losing any muscle mass.

But if you are 20-30 kg overweight, like everyone else, you should know that after 24 hours this risk becomes a certainty.

You know very well that I never open my mouth until I am 100% sure of myself.

I have studied and tested for a decade all the IF, OMAD and fasting protocols that exist - alongside thousands of people in our community.

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