Does fasting help in weight lost?

Well it does but not exactly the way ; weight loss you want. Here is what happens by fasting.

Your body needs fuel and it has 3 sources to get it from.
1. Food you eat - Primary Source
2. Muscle - Secondary
3. Fat - Third and last. so what happens when you fast?

1. By fasting you are not providing your body the primary source of fuel. so it will now depend on secondary and starts to use muscle for fuel. which mean you'll be loosing muscle.
2. As you lose muscle, your bones have less support that mean there is a lot of pressure on the bones.
3. More load on bones mean more pain and discomfort in any movement.
4. Once muscle is consumed it is time for fat.
5. By this time your body is already starving so it will shut off everything except most important functions like Brain,Lungs, Heart etc.

Now do you really want to lose weight by fasting? I don't think.


The best way is eat healthy in small portions multiple times a day. calculate your daily calorie and try to be within the limit.

Home Workout v/s Gym

Someone recently asked me about my idea of home workout v/s gym membership.

I tried both and here is what i found the differences are.

I personally found working at home was better than gym membership. I still have my gym membership but hardly go there and i have seen better results at home than Gym.

Find the compassion report from my experience.

Note: This is my personal experience and preference.

Diet v/s Exercise which is good for losing weight.

Q) If eating healthy helps me loose weight why should i even consider working out?

A) Yes, It is true eating healthy and within target calories will make you loose weight. however exercise will help the process a lot faster. But most importantly exercise keeps your internal organs healthy (Heart, Lungs, Muscles ).

Its like good fuel (healthy Diet) keeps your car smooth but regular checkups (Workouts ) will keep the engine in good condition.

Eating Healthy

Eating healthy is as simple as including a cup of fruits for breakfast and cup of vegetables for lunch. At least to start off with.

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Entering unknown calories burnt from exercise in MyFitnessPal

Here is a tip for anyone using MyFitnessPal to track calories.
 If you are exercising and don't know how much calories you burnt, try to put a small number for the exercise, this way mfp will only ask you to eat that much extra calories and you don't end up eating more.

Explanation: 

MFP calculates calories required as Calories Needed = Calorie Intake + Calories Burned with exercise. what it means, if your calorie target is 1800 calories and you did not do any exercise then you'll need to eat 1800 calories.
i.e. Calories Needed = 1800+0 = 1800.
If you worked out and burnt 100 calories then 
Calories Needed = 1800+100 = 1900.

So the point is, if you dont know how much calories you burned, then putting a small number is better (for weight loss), that way MFP doesn't bump up the calorie needed.