I want to show you how fasting weight loss works. There are a lot of people out there that want to lose weight, but have grown frustrated with the more popular methods. I was in the same boat too. I used to go drop the weight, but it would come back a few months later. It just wasn’t a doable method to achieve any long lasting weight loss. The real problem is that people are taught the wrong things. Other diets teach you to eat all the time, which means they want you to consume. It’s nothing more than a marketing tactic to get you to buy and buy some more to lose weight. We all know that eating got you into this mess, so it’s not going to get you out of it. I’m going to show you how fasting weight loss works.

This is a really simple process. Instead of changing your diet to eat better food, you change the structure. I think the reason weight loss fails is that people eat stuff they really don’t like. If you don’t like it, than how can you really sustain it for the long-term? The way it works with fasting is that you dedicated a 24 hour period of time to fasting once or twice a week. During your eating days you can eat like normal, even if you eat greasy ribs and birthday cake.

A lot of people don’t understand how fasting weight loss works because they were taught if they don’t eat their metabolism drops. This is false. Your metabolism is just a term for the amount of calories required to maintain all the cells in your body. Your cells are going to require the same amount of energy regardless if you ate 1 hour ago or 24 hours ago. Your body will target fat and you’ll lose weight.

If you want to know how to lose weight fast, there are numerous methods and diet plans that you could follow that would help you achieve your goal, some of them much quicker than others. Some of the more commonly known methods used to lose weight fast are;

The cabbage soup diet: Although this diet is extremely effective, especially if your objective is to lose weight fast, it can be somewhat repetitive and continuously consuming cabbage does have an adverse effect on the pungency of the air that surrounds some individuals, another plus is that it is extremely cheap too.

The Lemonade Diet: Again very effective if you are looking to lose weight fast, not quite as unpleasant on the smelly side as the cabbage diet is, but prolonged use of this diet has been known to have adverse side effects with regard to mood swings, so the best advice would have to be to only use this one in short sharp weight loss bursts.

Fasting: Abstaining from eating will obviously achieve a rapid reduction in weight but is not a very well thought of method of rapid weight loss and the immediate effects can be undone very quickly once the fasting has stopped, and normal eating is resumed as by that time the body has adjusted to survive on fewer calories so you will actually start to gain weight the second you start eating.

Some people would say a sudden burst of consistent exercise will help you lose weight fast, but few people are aware that exercise, although extremely important for your health and well being, only accounts for 20% of your weight loss, the remaining 80% can only be achieved by radically changing what we eat and the way we eat it.

So, there you have it, three examples of how to lose weight fast. OK, so maybe they were not the best three methods available or the three that you might have chosen, but you see that’s the thing about losing weight and the perpetual battle we all face day in and day out with our fluctuating poundage!

We have all tried diet after diet and have all battled to find the answer to how to lose weight fast, but we also know that what works for our best friend might not work for us; but the truth of the matter is your weight is dictated by one thing and one thing alone, calories.

If your body consumes more calories than it burns, the excess will be stored and will eventually turn to fat; on the other hand if you burn more calories than you consume then your weight will go down, it’s basic Physics really.

So, How to Lose Weight Fast and Keep it Off Then.

I would have to say that although I have lost weight using many different methods and diets one of the healthiest and appealing ways I have found that enables me to lose weight fast and maintain continuous weight loss is a method called calorie shifting.

This method uses different foods at different times to trick the body’s metabolism into burning calories it hasn’t eaten and it is a very effective method for rapid fat loss and when used alongside exercise can have even more dramatic results and in a very short time indeed.

Before there were packaged goods, processed foods, GMOs and an ongoing debate between organic or not, there was dirt, seeds, water and roaming animals. It may be hard to consider now, but the dawn of man produced hunters and gatherers and humans had to get their own food – not by heading to the supermarket.

There were no sprays to kill insects, no chemicals or genes added or modified. No extra-large tomatoes or vibrant yellow bananas. Food was simple. It was either found, picked or hunted. And although there weren’t doctors or research scientists to confirm the benefits of such eating, it seems that when it comes to dietary habits, eating like our ancestors has some merit.

Diets come and diets go, but one in particular seems to have staying power and for good reasons as well. It’s based on eating similar to that of prehistoric man and it’s being touted as one of the best way to eat. It’s called the Paleo diet.

What is the Paleo diet?
The Paleo diet was created by Loren Cordain, a now-famous author, speaker and professor of health and exercise science at Colorado State University, who specializes in disease and diet. The Paleo diet itself reflects food items and methods of eating similar to our Stone Age ancestors – that’s right, this diet is framed around eating like cavemen. Through scientific research and peer-reviewed studies, Cordain has uncovered many health benefits to eating the Stone Age way.

There are seven premise on which the Paleo diet guidelines are based:

High protein
Low carbohydrates and low glycemic index
High fiber
Moderate to high fat intake – monosaturated and polysaturated fats with omega-3s and 6s

High potassium, low sodium
Net dietary alkaline balances dietary acid – some foods produce acid (meat) and others are alkaline (fruits and vegetables). Eating a balance of both alkaline and acid foods can have positive health effects.

High intake of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and plant phytochemicals.