How to Not Gain Weight After Fasting

Fasting is a great and quick way to lose weight, since if you don't eat anything, you can't gain any weight. But keeping the pounds off after the fasting loss can be just as, if not more so, challenging than the actual fast itself. If you want to make sure your fast results in long-term weight loss and not just a temporary drop in pounds, here are a few tips to help you do just that.

Instructions

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  Joshua Zader writes in the Mudita Journal that since your body is used to not eating, you need to introduce small amounts of high-quality food instead of going into an eating binge right after your fast. High-quality food includes vegetables like broccoli and squash and fresh fruits like watermelons and blueberries. You should avoid food with spices, sours or acids in them.

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  Zader also says you should be eating whole foods instead of taking in juices. This will stimulate bowel movement which is extremely useful in helping raise your metabolism back up.

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  For each day that you fasted, you should spend a day gradually acclimating yourself back to your old diet, Zader says. So if you fast for five days, you want to spend five days slowly working yourself from eating nothing but high-quality foods like fruit and vegetables to eating meat, which is the hardest food to digest.

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  If necessary, change your attitude and perspective on what is rewarding and what is punishment, quickfasting.com says. If you see sweet and fattening foods as a reward, you will always go back to that because humans prefer rewards to punishment. Changing your attitude to look at healthy foods as a reward will help you keep weight off.