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Message: [QUOTE="intlzncster, post: 2145503, member: 56"] I'm not a doctor either, but this is the idea (from Drs): [I]When you starve yourself for more than 12 hours, your metabolic rate actually goes down by 40 percent. Your body senses a dietary disaster and quickly goes into storage mode, rather than burning mode. That's the primary reason why deprivation diets don't work. Your body panics about going into a famine, so it slows metabolism into emergency-storing mode, rather than a steady state of burning. Breakfast eaters are on average thinner than those who skip breakfast because they keep their metabolism genes turned on, which means calories are more likely to be burned off before they can turn into fat. ... Fasting can cause your body to store fat because when you don't eat, it perceives that you're starving. In defense, your body increases its ability to store calories as fat, so fewer calories go further. Unfortunately, once you start eating again, your body is primed to store any excess calories as fat. This "rebound" effect of fasting, or any kind of extreme caloric restriction, is one of the many reasons why a slow, steady approach to weight loss is the most effective one for the long term. Here's a Web MD articles from their Director of Nutrition: [URL="http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/diet-myth-truth-fasting-effective-weight-loss#1"]Diet Myth or Truth: Fasting Is Effective for Weight Loss[/URL] [/I] [/QUOTE]