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Does Fasting Work to Help You Lose Weight?

Professor Arnold Ehret, an 18th century German dietitian and author of "Mucusless Diet Healing System," stated at some time that "If one way is true, it is the way of Nature." To this day, he has yet to be proven wrong with his statement.

People who want to trim down and shed off those unwanted pounds these days often turn to various weight loss plans to meet their goal. A few of them, however, know that there is only one way to shed off those extra pounds quickly, and this method is all-natural and guaranteed not to make you thinner but also improve your health. This method is none other than fasting.

What Is Fasting?

Fasting is considered by many to be the best remedy for whatever physical and mental ailments our body suffers from. It is thought to be better than taking prescription drugs and over-the-counter treatments. When fasting is combined with a mucus-binding or alkaline-forming diet that consists of fruits, leafy vegetables, root vegetables, as well as with weight-resisting exercises like calisthenics, yoga and Pilates, the body can rapidly lose weight as well as enjoy other health benefits.

There are many types of fasting that is designed for losing weight. These fasting types are:

1. Complete water fasting. This type of fasting, as its name suggests, involves consuming nothing other than water. Water fasting should be done very carefully or while staying in a sanitarium if it is to be done for more than three days.

2. Juice fasting. Instead of water, people drink fruit juices and smoothies as part of a juice fasting regimen. Juice fasting is a lot easier for most people to handle, and they can follow this regimen safely for as long as they want.

3. Fruit fasting. Fruit fasting involves eating organic fruits in season for a period of several days. For example, you eat nothing but melons for a whole week during the summer and apples for the whole of winter.

4. Dry fasting. Dry fasting is similar to the fruit fasting except that it involves you eating dried fruits like figs, plums and raisins. After three days or so of eating dried fruit, you get to take a laxative to purge the toxins from your body.

Of all these fasting types geared towards weight loss, juice fasting and fruit fasting are perhaps the most effective and the most satisfactory. Not only do juice fasting and fruit fasting help in losing weight, they also clear the body of toxins that endanger our health.

Preparing for Fasting

Because fasting is a very radical weight-loss approach, you should be very careful when you go through it. More importantly, you should prepare your mind and your body before you start a fasting regimen. Here are a few tips that can help you go through any fasting regimen with more ease:

1. Stop eating junk food totally and gradually increase your intake of fruits and vegetables in your diet. This will start off a mild cleansing process that will tune up your digestive system for the fasting.

2. Three hours after dinner or one hour before going to bed, drink a cup of herbal tea laxative. This will also help cleanse your body and prepare it for fasting.

3. Drink one or two glasses of unsweetened lemonade upon waking up in the morning to balance your body's chemical makeup and put it in an alkaline state.

4. Gradually prepare your mind for your fasting regimen. Believe that you can do it without breaking it.

5. Take things easy while you are fasting and avoid any strenuous chores.

6. Do not use the microwave when heating your food.

As long as you do it properly, fasting will help you cleanse your body, lose weight rapidly and improve your health just as quickly. Why don't you give it a try sometime?

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