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BeyondWalls posted...

Bad idea. I read this causes your body to go into starvation mode and it will store even more fat than usual. Youre better off eating little snacks throughout the day instead of one big meal.

Lost 90lbs fasting for 23 hours a day and eating 2000 calories during a one hour period over 9 months. Not easy or ideal, but did drop a ton of fat. Granted I started at 270 lbs at 5'7, but the whole deal with fasting is that you force your body to run out of glucose and burn fat instead. You then still eat enough to not force it to lower the resting metabolic rate, which it will do if you spread 1200 calories over three meal or multiple snacks a day.

If you eat all day you'll keep engaging your digestive system and keeping your insulin elevated by feeding all day, never telling your body to use that store of fat. What it will do instead is adjust to a 1200 calorie intake and slow down the rate at which you burn calories while not doing anything. Also means that if you start eating over 1200 calories, you'll end up gaining it all back and more, since you're body is going to be used to only 1200 calories a day.

Fasting worked for me when calorie restriction and excersive never did. It's not easy, but there are less restrictive fasting programs that will also see result.