Chris, I have found the following works for me. Am only in 3rd week so early days:
1 * 36hour water only fast. ie have evening meal, then no food until breakfast day after fast day.

1 * 24 hour water only fast. Evening meal, then water only until dinner following evening.

Exercise every day. Lost 3.6k’s in first 2 weeks and am not very over weight. Just want to lose 5 or 6 kilos of winter / long term accumulated flab.

I like the water only as I feel it gives your body a complete break. Feels very refreshing. Once I get back to my ideal weight I think I’ll bring back the light evening meal as I find the evening the most challenging time to get through without food.

I have been fasting for 2 years. I also do two 24 hour fasts a week, usually with my last meal at 7pm and breaking the fast the same time the following day. I have had a lot of success losing over 40 pounds and gaining a muscular physique. If you do want to give this a go obviously you will need plenty of water and its good to break your fasts with a light dinner, I usually have poached eggs on wholemeal toast followed by a yoghurt until breakfast. I like to lift weights 3 times a week usually for around 20 minutes each time and I walk around 30-45 mins a day. The non fast days and controlling what you eat on those days are the key to success.

Wow, Chris! Your self control puts me to shame. I have been on the opposite end of the spectrum today – my fast day (when I normally eat nothing til the evening) lasted until 10:20 this morning when I caved in and had a bit of breakfast… And then a bit of lunch… And then a cold sausage I found in the fridge… Oh well, tomorrow’s another day!

congrats 🙂

wish u success in the 4/3 Chris

is this 4 ur weight ?

or are u doing this only for ur health?

this wk i’ve been doing a 5/2 w/ lowcarb cycling

from 20 40 60 80 20 etc

going 2 c how this will break my plateau i’ve

been on it 4
3 wks now @ 194

next wk pure mediterranean vegetarian & 4/3

i’m not a veg so this is going 2 b super tuff

tell us how u r doing w/ this?

share what u ate 2 ease into it on those nonfastdays

do u have some cool foods from the phillipines now that ur living there?

wow Chris nice loss

never thought of slimfast 2 ease in2 nonfastday

after a fast

yes, the health factor is what attracted me

however the side effects of losing weight, mental acuity 2much energy, enjoying ourselves by saying 2 ourselves we can eat that tomorrow while never really eating what u thought u wanted on nonfastday but going healthier w/out whips

is miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind blowing

finally something cool 4life

no longer a prisoner yay 🙂

Hi everybody.

I am lucky to be a patient of Dc. Arcady Economo who organized Anti-Aging Warter fasting programmes in Budapest. I stayed here for three weeks and lost 10 kg. First two weeks I drunk only water and the third week was juice fasting.
Now I am telling you my story in more details.
I am 56 years old. My main diagnosis: Diabetes II type, advanced stage.
I arrived to Budapest on March 30th. Anna, stuff member met me at the Budapest airport and brought to Medical Spa Hotel, located on the beautiful green park- island “Margit”. I stayed in a comfortable room with a wonderful view on the Danube. I have come to my program with a very strong motivation: to lose 10 kg in 3 weeks and to detoxify her body. I insisted on 21 days of water fasting. Usually they do not allow water fasting for more than 4-5 days if someone have no experience in fasting before. However, I told them I had experience in fasting: 2 weeks in countryside in Finland, 2 weeks juice fasting in Thailand. But my last fasting experience was 7 years ago. Therefore, I decided to try to go 2 weeks on water fasting (0 Cal. per day) and last week juice fasting (actually 200-300 Cal.a day).

On the next day of my arrival, I checked my cardiovascular system with an experienced and certified local medical doctor, as the main contraindication for fasting is arrhythmic heartbeats. Luckily, my heart was functioning normally. Meanwhile I had many health problems: I suffer typical symptoms of the metabolic syndrome. I suffer arthritis, thyroid gland disease, hypotyreos type 2, fibromyalgia, atherosclerosis and hypertension. However, my most dangerous age related disease was diabetes, II type. I was diagnosed diabetes 10 years ago and since that time, my diabetes progressed sufficiently, so my family doctor advised me to start insulin injections. My journey was my last chance to try fasting as a last remedy to defeat my diabetes progression.

After making all necessary discussion with my medical staff, I decided to approve a preliminary plan described above. On my first day my last meal was special fruit salads with carrot, apple and orange. Before going to bed I took laxative, double dosage pills to clean her gastro intestinal tract. Her blood sugar level next morning, my 2nd day was 9.5 (obvious diabetes). Normal range is between 3.5 and 6.2. So, from 2nd day I started drinking only water (0 calories per day). On the day one my blood pressure was 150/100, but gradually it lowered down in several days and becomes normal 135/80. My blood sugar level also gradually went down and on the 7th day of fasting it to 7.0. During this first week, I was very active, walking in the morning in the park 5-7 km every day. I had a massage every second day. Budapest is famous for its thermal spas, which benefit to treat many health problems. Hence, I visited thermal spa pools, located in the Hotel.
The first fasting week was very successful to me, my general condition improved substantially. I dropped 3.5 kg and experienced only minor side effects such as headache, and sleepiness, which often occur in the beginning of fasting. My pain reduced sufficiently. So I wes glad to see how my fasting was going and decided to prolong my water fasting for a second week as planned before.

Being experienced fasting practitioners, I knew that diabetes is a very serious disease and can bring us unpleasant surprises. Something happened on my 12th day of fasting. I felt very irritated, had dizziness, vision problems, weakness: typical syndromes of diabetic pre coma conditions. I immediately measured my blood sugar level and it was 3.2. It is interesting, that on this crisis 12th day my blood pressure jumped to 170/110. But blood sugar level was more important for me. Usually for those, who have no diabetes, it is normal that blood sugar drops to 3.0, even 2.0. Non-diabetic people usually tolerate well such low sugar, as at that time after long fasting period, the main fuel in the body becomes not glucose, but ketone bodies from fat. Even the brain, whose usual energy source is glucose, starts to use ketone bodies as up to 70 percent of source fuel after several days of fasting. So at that stage in the brain, only 30% of energy is from glucose. After about a week of fasting, the whole body metabolism changed dramatically, but in a good direction: the body uses fat as a main source of energy – and most important – use as a fuel all “wrong” tissue materials, like damaged proteins, week old cells and many other old and damaged tissues. All small tumors are shrinking and use as a fuel firstly.
Patients with advanced diabetes metabolism have no such plasticity as people free from diabetes. So, I have to be very cautious as for a person with diabetes more time is needed, that means more fasting days in order metabolism starts changing in a right direction. That is why we changed tactic for me. I had to go something like “one step back and two steps ahead”. So I decided to break a fast and switch my immediately to juice fasting, but in fact my fasting was still continuing, as she got with juices only 200-300 calories a day, and I used mostly vegetable and fruit juices with low content of glucose and sucrose. So, the next morning after I started taking juices my blood sugar was 7.6. On the 14th day it was 6.4, on the 16th day 5.5, on 18th day 4.8 and on the 21th day actually the day of my departure my blood sugar level stabilized at 5.0 that was an ideal value for healthy person. So, did I cure diabetes? Obviously, it was a tactical victory over diabetes, but not a strategic victory. The main battle with this disease will be homework for me that I will do after coming back home. From now on I must change my nutrition style completely according to the recommendations they gave to me. And what about my weight? In 21 days I dropped 9 kg. And blood pressure during my last week dropped again to normal values.

Conclusion. To treat or prevent serious chronic illness, like Diabetes II type, someone have to follow fasting regimes not once, but do it periodically, minimum 2 times a year, or better 3 or even 4 times per year. Dr. Arccady Economo name such anti-aging diet regime “Anti-Aging Cyclic Nutrition”.

Not sure how this forum thing works but I will post this anyway…..
Yesterday I was feeling quite positive it was my 3rd day and I had done two nearly full days fasting and felt fine, however today I decided to not fast and so far today I have had on waking a quarter of a small glass of orange and a coffee with semi skimmed milk no sugar…which I don’t take anyway… then meditated for 20 minutes as always, then had another coffee and a Belvita biscuit with yogurt in there are two in a pack and I had both….for lunch I had a watercress sandwich and tonight I am having jacket potato not sure what I am having on it yet though could be cheese and baked beans or just baked beans…see what I feel like
This is not a fast day so I am eating as normal
I just don-t see how this can work if you are only doing two days fasting I have chosen to do Tuesday and Thursday,….surly any weight that you have taken off with the two days fasting will go straight back on again when eating as normal….
I don’t see how that can be…surly the first thing you will loose will be fluid not fat….on my fast days i was doing quite well till about 3.30..4pm then it got the better of me and I had a few pretzels and a drink of cranberry which is what I drink most of the time
Am I doing it all wrong ….on my fast days I drank coffee with milk… Cranberry juice, earl grey tea….carrot and orange tea and had a chunk of water melon at lunch time

As long as you eat normally on the non fast days you will lose weight. You are cutting your intake of calories to just 25% on two days. If you overcompensate by eating too much on non fast days then it’s not going to work.

I think Humphrey’s suggestion is probably best and get more info on this diet to understand it better.