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One way to lose weight is to just stop eating. It sounds simple but in reality you have to know what you are doing to get any long term weight loss benefits from fasting. Let’s look at the weakness and strengths of fasting for weight loss.

Like most forms of dieting, fasting can be used to bring about dramatic but temporary reductions of weight. You can go on a long fast, taking nothing but juice or eating grapes or taking some other low calorie meal substitute for several weeks, and while you are on the fast you will certainly lose weight. However, during the fast you may not be able to carry on your normal social interactions. It’s not so easy to sit around sipping carrot juice while the rest of your family is eating a normal meal.

Another problem with long fasting is that your body requires vital nutrients (vitamins, minerals, protein) and your favorite juice may not contain them. Long fasting without proper medical supervision can be dangerous.

Finally, a major problem with this kind of fasting is that once you stop fasting and resume eating your normal diet, you are likely to gain back all the weight that you have lost during your crash weight loss fast.

So, does fasting have any place in a weight loss plan? Yes it does. Periodic fasting is one of the secrets of a long and healthy life. Our body’s digestive organs require a rest from time to time, just as we require days off from work. One-day fasting done in a methodical and regular manner provides the kind of rest that helps our digestive system, aids in the elimination of toxins from our body, and, yes, also helps us to lose weight in a healthy and sustainable way.

How to Do Proper Fasting

Here is a method of doing one day fasts, taking no food and (if your body is strong) no water in a period from the sunrise of one day to the sunrise of the next day.

Successful fasting has three stages: preparation, the actual fast, and breaking the fast. Each one of these stages is important.

Preparation

If you are not prepared both mentally and physically you will find it difficult to go one day without food. The mental preparation is simple, but very important. The night before the fast you have to take a firm determination that tomorrow you are going to fast, that you are not going to eat any food. If you fix your mind in advance then you will not start deliberating during the fasting day whether you should continue or not to continue. If you are undecided or waffling you can always find a hundred reasons why you should start eating!

Physical preparation is also important. The day before you fast you should eat a normal amount of food and take a good amount of liquids (especially if you are going to be fasting without taking any liquids). If you miss some meals on the day before fasting, then you may start feeling hungry during the fasting period. If you do not take enough liquids, especially during the night before the fast, then you will feel uncomfortable when you are fasting.

If you are physically and mentally prepared you will not feel very hungry while you are fasting. Once you decide to fast, your hunger just “shuts off” for the fasting period. This sounds hard to believe, but if you do it a few times you will see that it is true.

The Fasting Day

It is best to do light physical tasks and concentrate more on intellectual and spiritual work during the fasting period. It is not a good idea to spend your time thinking about what you are going to eat tomorrow! If you have prepared yourself properly this shouldn’t be a problem and you can use the time that you gain by not eating to do some constructive things that you normally don’t get time to do.

Breaking the Fast

One of the benefits of fasting is that it helps to eliminate toxins from the body. However, you can only get this benefit if you break your fast correctly. On the morning following the fasting day, take two glasses of lemon water. Put the juice of have of a lemon in one glass and add a bit of salt. (The drink should taste both lemony and salty). After some time, you can eat your breakfast. The lemon water will help you to flush your digestive system with a strong bowel movement and many toxins will be eliminated.

One day fasts like this can be done twice a month. This kind of fasting will give rest to your digestive organs, help eliminate toxins, build your will power and strength of mind. On top of this, the overall reduction in calories that you get from going two days without food each month, will definitely be one of the elements of a balanced and sustainable weight loss program.

Here’s a great guide on a special method of intermittent fasting.

In recent years, glucosamine has come out above other pain killing remedies as the way to repair cartilage and joint related injuries. Many athletes used to find themselves just enduring the pain or giving up their sport altogether. There is no longer a reason to “just bear with it.”

What types of injuries can it help?
Glucosamine can help joint related injuries that result for overuse or persistent wear on any particular joint causing damage to the cartilage that connects the joint. The cartilage wears down and or becomes inflamed and can cause great pain the athlete. What results over time is a type of arthritis called oesteoarthritis.

How it works
Glucosamine is an important sugar related substance that begins by reducing the inflammation in the joint cartilage, which helps reduce the pain. Next, it helps keep cartilage from breaking down and causing more pain. Finally, it helps increase the cartilage production, keeping the arthritis from coming back.

Although glucosamine is a sugar based compound, tests have shown that it is safe for diabetics with joint pain and does not trigger any bad diabetic side effects.

A typical adult dose is one pill, two or three times daily. Most people will want to take the glucosamine with food as some people report upset stomachs if they take it alone. It is also thought to be absorbed more readily when taken with food. You may also consider taking it in liquid form as it is much more readily absorbed by your body than the powder form offered in glucosamine pills. Whatever form you choose, the result won’t be noticeable for at least two weeks and possibly as long as eight weeks.

Types of Glucosamine
There are two main varieties of glucosamine, regular and vegan. Typically, glucosamine is made with shellfish so if you are allergic, it is very important that you choose a vegan variety to avoid any unwanted side effects. The vegan variety is made from corn so it won’t trigger a shellfish reaction and is completely animal product free if you are vegan.

Is glucosamine good for anything else?
Glucosamine is also an excellent tool for elderly or obese people that experience joint pain. The elderly can enjoy the joint rejuvenating effects of glucosamine and can help them move around better without addictive pain killers. Overweight people often have joint problems, especially in the knees that can be helped greatly with glucosamine. Years of added pressure on the knee joint wears the cartilage down making it a great way to help obese people return to an active and pain free lifestyle.

As with any supplement or pill, a doctor should always be consulted before beginning a pill regimen. Extra caution should also be taken by pregnant and breast feeding mothers.

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