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My water fasting weight loss results will blow your mind

Posted: November 20, 2017 at 8:43 pm

Written by David Brown, Last updated: October 21, 2017

Hey, and welcome to my water fasting weight loss experiment.

I'll show you exactly what I did to lose 14.6 pounds (6.6 kilograms) in 5 short days. This comes down to losing almost 3 pounds (1.5 kilograms) per day, which is awesome by any standard.

But you probably know it's impossible to lose 3 pounds of pure body fat per day. So read on to find out how much total weight, how much body fat, and how much of your lean body mass you can expect to lose on a water fast.

I'll also show you some advanced weight loss tips that you can use to boost your weight loss results even further. These tips won't only help you laser-target your body fat, but will also protect your lean body mass during a water fast.

Before you read all about how to maximize the weight loss results on your next (or first?) water fast, take a quick look at what's covered in this article:

Here's a study[1] that proved it's possible to destroy as much as 13 pounds (5.9 kilograms) of lean body mass during a 21-day water fast.

Unfortunately, your lean body mass includes both your muscle mass and vital organ tissue.

Now, maybe you aren't worried about losing some of your muscles during a water fast. Maybe you plan on rebuilding your muscle mass AFTER you finally get rid of that stubborn body fat.

But you should know that the single most important muscle in your body (that just happens to be your most important vital organ as well) that can suffer because of this, is your heart.

So even if you plan on doing a short water fast, you could still end up weakening your heart in the process.

Now, it's true that a short water fast isn't likely to seriously damage your heart. But if you ask me, sacrificing your lean body mass to quickly drop a couple of pounds is never a smart thing to do.

Especially since a better way of fasting exists.

The kind of fast that can fully prevent that unnecessary destruction of your lean body mass is called a "muscle sparing fast". And the best part? Muscle sparing fasting won't slow down those incredibly high fat burn rates water fasting can offer you.

If you ask around about muscle sparing fasting in the water fasting community, some people may tell you that a muscle sparing fast is not a "pure" water fast.

But modern science has proven that muscle sparing fasting can be done in a way that doesn't interrupt the fasting state in your body. In fact, muscle sparing fasting can actually offer higher fat burn rates than water fasting (if you know how to tweak things a bit).

Now, this article is about pure water fasting, so I'll have to get on with that.

But if you want to learn more about reverse the negative effects of water fasting and possibly increase your fat burn rates even beyond your natural limits, you can see how muscle sparing fasting works here.

Like I said, my water fasting weight loss results look pretty impressive on paper.

I lost a total of 14.6 pounds (6.6 kilograms) in less than a week, while the recommended weight loss rate is about 1-2 pounds (0.5-1 kilogram) per week.

In other words, my water fasting results were more than 10 times better than what you can get on your standard, "doctor's approved" weight loss diet.

But the truth is, more than two thirds of my awesome weight loss results had nothing to do with my body fat.

So even though water fasting IS one of the fastest fat loss methods on the planet, you'll have to sacrifice a lot of your lean body mass to lose so much weight so quickly.

But this preventable and reversible loss of your lean body mass is not just a problem with water fasting. Trying to lose body fat really quickly (while holding on to as much of your lean body mass as possible) is easily the single biggest problem in the weight loss community.

Because this issue is so hard to avoid, many rapid weight lost diets trick you with a big fake drop of the number on your bathroom scale. And while you celebrate those fake weight loss results, you stay completely blind to the fact that you probably lost little or no body fat at all.

Again, this article is about water fasting, so I obviously can't go into all the details here.

But if you want to learn more about the 5 different ways your body can trick you into believing you're losing a lot of weight (even when you're hardly losing any body fat at all), you can download a free sample chapter from my "Perfect Fat Burn Diet" book.

If you only take the time to read that one short chapter, you will never again be fooled by the promise of fast results on ANY weight loss diet.

Here's exactly what happened during the 5 days of my extreme water fasting weight loss experiment.

If you're thinking of doing a water fast yourself (even if just for a day or two), this will give you a better idea of what to expect.

You'll also see that I've gotten myself into a pretty risky situation on the fifth day (and had no choice but to "cheat" during my fast).

Let this incident be a reminder to you that water fasting is not to be taken lightly (especially if you plan on exercising during your fast), and that safety must always come first.

During the first day of the fast, my energy levels were still pretty good. I spent about two hours on my bicycle, plus, I did some sprinting. By the end of the day, I felt really tired, but nothing too out of the ordinary.

The hardest part of the first day is handling your hunger and food cravings.

I properly transitioned into my water fast, so my body was already used to getting just one meal per day (a late dinner). Because I was tired from exercising without food, I fell asleep way before dinnertime. So during the first day, I tricked my mind into not even noticing that I was going to skip food altogether.

But that only got me through the first day.

The hunger, the cravings, and the constant feeling of emptiness in your stomach. Even without exercise, these things CAN get to you.

On the second day of my water fast, I went on a hike. But after about two hours of brisk walking, that was it. I was completely out of gas, and that familiar feeling of dizziness started creeping in.

A little dizziness is completely normal during a water fast (even if you completely avoid exercise). But during my previous fasts, it never started feeling dizzy before day three.

Exercise really worked to speed things up.

The third day could easily compete for the worst day of my life.

I was so completely out of energy, that I barely dragged myself around the apartment. The only time I felt this way was when I was extremely weak because of an illness.

If you do a water fast without exercise, the third day is usually much, much easier.

So if you want to burn off more body fat by exercising in the beginning of your water fast, feeling like crap might be the price you'll have to pay.

The good news was, my hunger was almost completely gone by the third day.

On the fourth day, I got some of my energy back.

I was actually able to walk a couple of miles, but that was it for the day.

Like I said, the hunger was now completely gone. I literally felt like I didn't care if I ever eat anything again.

And this is actually the biggest advantage of doing a water fast for weight loss.

If you can learn how to handle yourself during those first few days, you'll get to a place where hunger virtually disappears.

But it wasn't until the final day that I got reminded fasting is no walk in the park.

The last day of my water fast surprisingly began really great. I felt like I had a TON of energy, so I courageously went on a hike.

But almost exactly at the farthest point from my home, I nearly collapsed from exhaustion.

I remember leaning against a fence, just wanting to lie down. I had no idea how I was supposed to get home.

I had no choice. My safety had to come first, even if it meant not completing my weight loss experiment.

Somehow, I managed to slowly make my way to the nearby store, and bought some dates.

Dates have an extremely high-glycemic index, which means that the sugar they contain will rush into your bloodstream like a speed train.

And boy, did they work.

I only ate two dates, and it was like pouring gasoline on fire. With this quick energy boost, I was able to get back home with no problems.

So yes, I technically "broke" the fast before day 5 was over.

But those two dates weighed only a couple of grams, so they really couldn't have affected the final weight loss results a lot.

So in spite of me "cheating" during my fast, I still ended up losing 14.5 pounds (6.6 kilograms) in 5 short days.

Back when I did my water fasting experiment, I didn't really know a lot of science on how to speed up weight loss during a water fast even further.

But I've done my research since then. So what you're about to see, are some pretty neat tricks that can boost your fat loss even beyond what water fasting can do on its own.

In other words, even though I've gotten some pretty amazing results with my experiment, if I had used any of the tricks you're about to read, I could have lost even more weight during my water fast.

Let's dive right in.

If you really want to skyrocket your fat burn rate during your next water fast, here's a science-based weight loss tip that can help you out:

Research[2] has proven that taking just a tiny amount of caffeine, an extremely popular natural fat burner found mostly in coffee and tea, can literally double the release of fat from your body fat reserves.

(To find out more about how caffeine actually speeds up fat loss, how many calories it can actually help you burn, and how to make caffeine work on ANY diet, go to my science based guide to maximizing your weight loss results with caffeine.)

In other words, if you do a water fast without caffeine, your highest possible fat burn rate will be limited by your body's natural ability to release fat from your body fat reserves.

But if you take caffeine during a water fast, you can actually reach a state of "superhuman" fat burn (because caffeine helps your body release and burn off that stubborn body fat even faster).

Also, because caffeine will help you release more energy from your body fat reserves, you'll feel much more energized and mentally focused during a water fast.

Time to take a look at an awesome drink that's also been scientifically proven to speed up weight loss:

What if I told you, or better yet, what if I could prove to you that burning off even more calories during a water fast comes down to something as simple and natural as drinking tea?

Well, science[3] says, oolong tea contains the so called "polyphenols" that have been proven to speed up weight loss.

Furthermore, teas like oolong tea also contain caffeine, and you've already seen the science on how well that one works.

Needless to say, the fat burning combo of polyphenols and caffeine you can get in by drinking some oolong tea, could easily boost your final water fating weight loss results even further.

(If you want to find out how many calories oolong tea can help you burn, how it can help you better target your body fat, and discover a little-known weight loss benefit of oolong tea, then you can go to my science based guide to speeding up weight loss with oolong tea.)

But let's take another kind of tea you can drink for quicker fat loss during a water fast.

Yes, green tea is another zero-calorie drink you can use to speed up weight loss during a water fast.

Science[4] has proven that green tea can speed up fat burn by over 35%!

And the best part?

Burning off more body fat also means you'll destroy less of your lean body mass (because your body will be able to draw more energy from those ugly body fat reserves).

The ability of green tea to protect your lean body mass while helping you burn away more body fat during a water fast is amazing in and of itself.

(But if you want to discover a few more little-known weight loss benefits of green tea, you can read all about them in my science based guide to boosting weight loss with green tea.)

But now it's time you find out how to avoid one of the most common traps people who are doing a water fast for weight loss tend to fall into.

I really need to warn you about one of the stupidest mistakes I made in my extreme water fasting challenge. I did it, because I simply didn't know about this back when I went through with my weight loss challenge.

My dumb mistake was, I tried to boost my water fasting results with exercise.

I mean, it's widely known that exercise and weight loss go hand in hand, right?

So why not do some light exercise to boost your water fasting results, especially once you start feeling that "energy high" after a couple of days?

Well, unfortunately for me (but fortunately for you cause you're reading this now) it took me quite a while before I found out just how dangerous exercise can be during a water fast.

One water fasting study[5] proved that every hour of exercise during a water fast will destroy over 100 grams of your lean body mass!

And the people in the study weren't doing intense exercise. The loss of lean body mass is bound to happen even if you exercise lightly during your water fast.

Like I said, that destruction of your lean body mass will not only hurt your muscles, it can damage your vital organs as well.

The bottom line is, you can do pretty much everything you normally do during a water fast.

Just do your best to avoid any activities that will raise your heart rate, make you start breathing heavily, or require a lot of energy to perform (think heavy work, weight lifting, or basically any kind of sport).

And while this wasn't exactly a tip that can boost your water fasting results, it's even more important you understand what you're NOT supposed to do.

So many people make the mistake of staying overly active during a fast, but instead of improving their final water fasting results, they only end up harming their bodies.

That very first bite you take after not eating for 5 days will taste out of this world. Even if you start by eating a food you're usually not all that excited about (celery, anyone?), that first sensation of food in your mouth will be far beyond your usual experience.

If you haven't been eating for five days, you need to slowly ease back into your normal diet. This is even more important with longer fasts. But even after a 5-day water fast, you can't just start eating like a horse right away.

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