Is the Fasting Diet Really Good for Your Health?

In today’s society, we are always told to lose weight – granted, the obesity numbers have hit a high and everyone is trying to avoid becoming an addition to that factor. Needless to say, the number of ways to lose weight or refine your body is also always increasing, which can lead to a bad dose of misleading diets and disastrous digestion.

The Fasting Diet is just one such example, with some questioning as to whether or not the process actually works. Condemned as a “fad diet”, there is concern that fasting will in fact lead to overeating rather than restricted eating.

The way that The Fasting Diet works is that the dieter eats normally for five days and eats less than 500 calories for the remaining two. The downside to this is that for those five days, you are given the liberty to eat what you choose. The lack of restriction can result in a very poor diet, with fat being stored up in your body when you are feeding yourself less food – food that could in fact save your metabolism, rather than destroy it.

Fasting, in the end, messes up your body’s routine – it cannot replace exercise or healthy eating.

Like sleeping, it’s fantastic to have it – and like food, it’s one of the things that is obsessed about, but you are told to have it in moderation, at a decent time and to never have too much. By going to extremes – one way or the other, the result will be the same. Adjusting and changing your dietary routine will take time. Nothing happens instantly.

When the summer rolls in, we all want to lose that waistline to wear the silhouette of a model. Contrary to popular belief however, there is no “miracle weight loss” programme. Eat healthily, get some exercise down you and work at it, little by little. You have time – a lot of it, in fact.