The World's Easiest Fat Loss Diet

First let's clarify this statement: world's easiest fat loss diet. What we are going to talk about in this article is not a fat loss diet, per se. What it is is sensible eating with intermittent fasting.

Now, we are talking about eating what you are used to eating day in and day out. But at least once maybe even twice a week you will fast for 24 hours - just drinking water. And before you think you could never consider going without food so long, remember you go without food for 10 to 12 hours each night. As a matter of fact that is why we call breakfast break fast - because you fast during the night.

Somewhere along the way, someone set about to prove that you must eat breakfast each and everyday or you will put on weight. These same folks claim that you must not only eat breakfast, you must eat every 2-3 waking hours! Really! How unrealistic until this age of coffee breaks and long lunch hours. Until our more sedentary generation, most folks ate when they could. On top of that they ate what they could as they had far less choices than we have in our affluent state of affairs.

So, about intermittent fasting... don't most experts say that if you go without food for more than 3 hours your metabolism slows way down and you begin to store fat. It is true that your amazing body is designed to "preserve" itself but not as quickly or as drastically as the "experts" say. If you fast for say 24 hours, your body continues to need, say, 1200 to 1800 calories a day regardless of how you live. Exercise and other activities use more calories than that.

If you keep doing everything on your fast days like any other day, the fact is it would still burn those 1200 - 1800 calories plus the extra ones. Then when you begin to eat again after 24 hours, your body resumes "as usual" with a minor depression in your metabolism (we are talking the equivalent of a cup of creamed coffee), but not like the 6 meal a day proponents who would have you believe that your body will convert all food to fat. There is simply no evidence of this.

Why is there so much confusion on the subject? Well, truth be told, there is money to be made by convincing you to eat 6 meals a day. Perhaps a short lesson in economics is in order here. Food and supplement companies pay researchers to find "proof" of how food and eating affects us and our weight. Once the researchers find a bit of evidence that seems to prove that going without food will cause weight gain, they lay these "facts" before the food and weight loss companies which gladly share the news to prove their weight loss philosophy. It really is as simple as that.

If it got out that fasting was the most sensible way to lose weight, the whole weight loss industry would diminish to nothing. And that is bad for business.

In the final analysis, the only way to lose weight is to eat less and exercise more. Intermittent fasting accomplishes the "eat less" part of the equation very easily.

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Marie Stimson is a research writer and freelance author specializing in fitness and weight loss. Not satisfied with all the confusion in the marketplace about fat loss and health, she uncovered the truths about weight loss and fitness in her report, Why Dieting Doesn't Work. To get the facts about fasting and weight loss, see: http://besthealthyweightlossdiet.com/dietsdontwork.html