If you are doing 24hr, 36hr or 48hr fasts (short term) you still need to track calories… When you break your fast and for a couple of days later, you may feel enough hunger to over-eat what you need to lose weight. You also may justify over-eating and erase your hard earned efforts. Calculate your total daily expenditure of calories and multiply it by 7 days. Then, you have to eat less to lose weight.
Fasting enables us to prolong days between eating and decreases our consumption of calories. You can quickly eat more than you need to, and gain weight between fasting.
Definately! I was rewarding myself for the successful fasts. Wasn’t losing weight, so started tracking calories and found that I was eating more than the day of fasting lost. It was clean, high quality good food, but still too many calories.