Fasting is simply the restriction of our usual eating. Whether a fruit fast or a water fast or a fast from meat, or beef or sweets, fasting is a restriction of our food, a diet.
Fasting can be a real life saver for the overweight person. The benefit of fasting is not in weight loss. Fasting will make you lose weight. Water fast will result in an average of 1 to 2 pounds per day of weight loss. But that is not the benefit of fasting for weight loss. The power of fasting is not in losing weight during the fast, but in gaining control of your appetite….. (more…)