I would simply like to state for the record that, while I encourage everyone in this thread to challenge themselves and obtain their personal fitness goals, and that yes, sometimes a shock to start a new routine can help or simply reset the system, and so on and so forth... Please be careful with how much you limit your calorie intake and how often; please work to ensure that however you decide to lose weight, you do so carefully, reasonably, and while working to ensure general overall good nutrition; and remember that in no way is anyone in this thread advocating fasting/extreme low-cal intake on a daily/regular basis as a means to healthy, long-term, successful weight loss or maintenance. I don't think any of you are doing this in a way that is bad but I would hate for any person to read this thread and use it as encouragement or motivation for unhealthy behavior. I can't get behind a thread like this without saying something to that point. I wish you all luck with your fasts, though, and am not trying to rain on any parade. I just really feel a little uncomfortable reading all the enthusiasm in this thread and not saying what I've said.
For what it's worth, I consulted with a medical physicist and an MD.
I think _refugee_ was just throwing up a word of caution to anyone who is predisposed to eating disorders with the hope that they wouldn't read about the virtues of fasting and take that as a sign that anorexia is also healthy. Pretty sure she wasn't aiming it at you. Ref, not trying to put words in your mouth; that's just how I read your statement.
I didn't think that she was. I thought it was a prudent thing for her to state. I was just trying to add to it letting people that read this know that this decision wasn't made in a vacuum. I took absolutely no offense from ref's comment. Not at all.
Yeah not trying to guilt or naysay at all. Just trying to say, hey, we might all be doing this, but that doesn't mean you should do it all the time. It's hard to say though bc now intermittent fasting has come up (which I do advocate) and so on - so basically - moderation in all things and be safe.