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From a technical stand point itsnot techniqually fasting
But, i just finished a 7 week ‘fast’ where all i had every day was a coffee (for the caffine) in the morning and a slim fast advanced at night for ‘dinner’ which is roughly 160 calories but the advanced formula gives me a binch of vitamins and minerals.
So i essentially ‘ate’ for 5 minutes each day and fasted the other 23:55 hours, i lost 12 lbs and on day 2 of being back to low calorie dinners i havent gained any weight back yet (knock on wood lol)
I’ve tried vegetable juice fasting versus water fasting where I consumed this many calories or less. In my opinion the calories and carbs - even though it was a small amount - made it much worse to keep going because it gave me cravings and kept my appetite going. With water fasting my digestion slows down and the cravings vanish. And generally where I come from we go slow and take things easier when we water fast. It’s considered a healing process where you don’t work out but rather take relaxed walks and do yoga and stretching and sleep more, take a nap during the day and don’t go and keep up your usual stress and work levels. It’s a period of resetting, resting and healing. So maybe accept that your body wants to be slower and your brain too for the time of your fast. If this however doesn’t work then maybe another fasting protocol is better for you like 5:2.
The best plan is the one you can stick to. Some people feel more tired and hungry if they eat something, others find that it makes it easy to get through the day. It depends on the person and what you eat. For weight loss there’s functionally no difference between eating 0 calories and eating 250 calories.
For weight loss purposes close to none. A lot of people turn to fasting because it is easier than counting calories. Also if you only eat 200-300 calories in a day I’m willing to bet you’re still fasting at least 16 hours a day, one of the most common fasting periods.
Eating 200-300 cals/day is not technically fasting (fasting=not eating), but it should still result in weight loss. A calorie deficit of 1700 cals/day will lose weight similarly to a deficit of 2000 cals/day… just a little bit slower.