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2-4-6-8 Diet
This diet is very popular among anorexics because it speeds up your metabolism and you can lose a lot of pounds with this
diet. Usually with restricting calorie intake, you actually show your metabolism. Therefore, with this diet, you take in different
amounts of calories every day. This behavior tricks your body. The first day you restrict to 200 calories. The following days
you build up the calorie intake by 200. (2nd day: 400. 3rd day: 600, etc.) You can add a day of fasting inbetween and at the
end before starting the whole cycle over again.
The Restrictive Way
You can eat everything but just don't go over 800 calories a day. Try to eat things with low fat and as little calories
as possible since you can eat more without reaching the 800. Depending on your choices, you can do this diet forever and you
can lose over 30 pounds in 6-8 weeks! My advice: Do some sports and the pounds will seem to fly away.
Fasting
Fasting is the complete absense of food; just water. And unlike extreme restrictive diets, it's healthy!
Short-term Fasting
In general, fasts should be conducted for no longer than 28 days- most fasts being 21 days or less. Long fasts (42 days)
are both unnecessary and potentially dangerous! A prolonged fast, for more than 2-3 months is simply STARVATION! Although
most of the miraculous benefits of fasting do result from 3-5 days or more and 7-14 days is "healing". Although
days 1-7 are quite benefitial, days 7-14 are truly tremendous, with the benefits from days 14-21 become extreme. Days 21-28
are nothing than a complete regeneration of the body!- it literally erases years of your life.
--After the 3rd day of a fast, the body begins to make ketone bodies in the liver; in other words, it enters ketosis.
In the absense of food (energy), ketone bodies are produced by the body as an alternate energy source. Normally, ketone levels
in the blood are less than .2mm. After several days of fasting, they approach 3mm, and steadily rise thereafter. Importantly,
never eat an extreme amount during a fast!- this quickly shifts the body out of ketosis; back to its normal metabolism of
glucose (food) which decreases ketone bodies, cuasing growth hormone and increases hunger.
Fasting and Hunger Levels
The only challenge to fasting is completing the first 1-5 days. During days 1-5, hunger levels can flucauate from average
to well above average. Many actually experience their greatest hunger on day 3 (prior to ketosis). After day 3, hunger levels
noticably decrease. After day 5, hunger levels and the desire for food in general dramatically decrease. After day 10, hunger
levels- for the most part- are nonexistant.
Fasting and Energy Levels
During days 1-5, energy levels can flucate from average to well below average- (feeling light headed). During days 5-10,
with sharply elevated levels of borth growth hormone and ketone bodies, energy levels are tremendous- as well as mental clarity.
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