(1)Clearly, fasting is a speedy and effective way to lose unnecessary body fat, but once the fat has melted away restoring a youthful physique, how do we keep the weight off? And can we use fasting as a type of weight maintenance program, gaining when eating and losing when fasting? No. The last thing you want is to turn fasting into another form of purging within the all too familiar binge/purge cycle. After melting the pounds away, the long-term benefit of fasting is its ability to break food addictions. Once the fast is over and the challenge of ...