QuestionI'm sorry, I could not find a more suitable expert to answer my question. I hope you can answer it.
How much weight can I lose in water fasting, on average? Give me your best estimate. I'm 5'6 / 145 lbs, fat% 19%. now on my 5th day of water fast. I'm not doing this mainly to lose weight, but I want to know what kind of weightloss to expect, to plan on how long a fast would be most suitable and healthy for me (I do not want to lose too much weight, nor obviously any weight beyond my fat reserves, as that would be dangerous). This is not my first time of doing a waterfast, but this is my first time that I will do a waterfast for longer than 10 days. I hope you can provide me with an answer. (Note: waterfast means that I only consume water, nothing else - no artificial sweeteners, no juices, no calories, nothing but water.)
AnswerDear Anna,
There is no simple answer to your question since any weight loss rate depends on too many things, for example:
- how much water a person retained before fast
- how this person's hormones controlling electrolyte balance work (in their term depending on how stress hormones and many other hormones work) -- resulting on different rates of water loss
- what of the two metabolic systems, carbohydrate-burning or fat-burning, is winning the competition resulting in more or less fat loss versus more or less muscle loss
- is there a metabolic resistance?
- what are this person's vascular reactions resulting on greater or smaller heat loss through the skin
- how physically active the fasting person remains
I suggest that you also read my answers about fasting at allexperts.com and my article:
http://atkinszone-did-you-know.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-i-fast-how-to-enter-surv...
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Nutrition-Dieting-939/2008/10/Fasting-good-bad-metabo...
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Special-Diets-768/2010/9/complete-water-fast-72.htm
Tanya Zilberter
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