| Fasting, or more accurately starving yourself to lose | | | | over were the following facts: |
| weight can produce very fast weight loss. The | | | | 1. Beyoncé is 25 years old. Younger people are |
| problem with this and so many other weight loss plans | | | | better able to tolerate abusing their bodies than the |
| is that sooner or later you need to go back to | | | | rest of us. |
| managing your own food. Understand that any type of | | | | 2. She had the benefit of childhood metabolism. It's no |
| quick weight loss that takes you out of your normal | | | | secret that our metabolisms slow down as we age. |
| patterns is usually not a long-term solution. | | | | This means it's more difficult to lose weight, no matter |
| My normal patterns, I mean, your personal food | | | | what diet plan are fast is used |
| choices and selections. Almost anyone can lose | | | | 3. Beyoncé admitted she was very irritable while on |
| weight with those portion control meal plans that come | | | | the diet. |
| prepackaged and prepared. The problem becomes | | | | 4. Being rich, she had a nutritionalist available in most |
| apparent when you quit buying those prepackaged | | | | likely an exercise program monitored by a personal |
| foods and need to decide what you will eat from the | | | | coach. |
| refrigerator or a restaurant menu. | | | | The most important point, however, and was that after |
| Understand that fasting and weight loss seem to go | | | | she completed the scenes for the movie, she |
| together well, because not eating has always been a | | | | immediately gained back all of those 20 pounds. |
| guaranteed path to weight loss. The old adage that to | | | | There is just no way that you can maintain weight loss |
| lose weight, you need to eat less and exercise more | | | | due to a fast without major changes in your dietary |
| continues to be true. | | | | eating habits and/or exercise regimen. What any of us |
| For those of you who think that as long as you're | | | | and a diet and go back to normal eating patterns, we |
| thinner, it's worth the risk, you need to rethink that | | | | tend to put all the weight lost back on along with a |
| outlook. Fast too long and your body will begin to | | | | couple more pounds. The extra poundage is caused |
| experience some fun and exciting side effects like | | | | by our bodies having just experienced starvation. Our |
| possibly kidney stones. The pain is so unbelievable and | | | | bodies will want to add a little more reserve (fat) to |
| can last for hours and even days. The real fun begins | | | | our frames to protect us from the next period of |
| however when you get past them through your urine. | | | | starvation that may come our way. |
| Believe it or not, kidney stones are just a minor | | | | Fasting for a day or two at a time can actually be |
| inconvenience in relation to some of the more serious | | | | beneficial to weight loss by improving your metabolism. |
| health problems you can create with fasting. | | | | In the end any diet that doesn't consider maintaining |
| Beyonce Knowles appeared on The Oprah Winfrey | | | | adequate vitamins, minerals, nutrients, carbohydrates |
| Show and claimed she lost 20 pounds on a Lemonade | | | | and proteins should be considered dangerous to your |
| Fast. That's probably as far as a lot of people, | | | | health. |
| desperate to lose weight might have heard. Glossed | | | | |