New beginnings... water fasting

I have been doing more and more research on water fasting, looking up both sides the negative and the positive. So far the pros outweigh the cons.  Still I am a little bit sceptical but I want to give it the old college try. I don't want to seem like I'm trying to be something that I am not, trying to take the easy way, seeing lazy, or insecure. I want to do this more so for the health benefits rather than the weight loss even though that would be awesome. Frankly I really don't care if anyone disagrees with this because  this is my life, my opinion, and my choice. I am doing this for me and me only. Throughout my years of binging out of boredom I feel my body hating life.. slowing down and unhealthy. I just don't want to be overweight or feel disgusting on the inside everyday. I know that my biggest obstacle would be the mental part not so much the physical. I need to be mentally prepared for this fast and I am known to make excuses and to put stuff off. I promise myself I wont do that again. I am going to start off with a 3 day water fast to test it out.. if I think I can go longer I will. Seeing as though I love water this shouldn't be so much difficult. I don't know my measurements or anything but will post went I figure it out. I don't know my weight as of today but I am going to go off on my last weigh in which was 226lbs. I personally don't look that big but its true, my short term goal for the end of the summer is to be out of the 200's so 199lbs would be awesome with a 26lbs loss. I am not shy about posting my weight for everyone to see cause I dont realy care, once I lose it all it wont matter anyway. You get me? My ultimate goal is 170lbs I wouldn't want to go any less because I feel as though I would be too thin and really unhealthy and sicking and to be honest anything less than that would be unrealistic. So I'll post my fasting update in 3 more days. See you then :)

Water Fasting. Long term or just a Quick Fix?

Ever since last summer I've been trying to sort of investigate Water Fasting as a whole. We all where told that if one does not eat will die. I thought that the average human being can only go  4-7 days without food. Well I was wrong. People have gone 30- 40 days without food and lost over 100lb, 1-2 lbs per day. There are many different kinds of fasting in which the amount of weight you lose a day varies. I wanted to see if Water fasting was a long term thing or just a quick fix. The truth is that Water Fasting Can be both of these things and it is up to the individual to decide if they want their Water Fasting benefits to stay or not. "Starving" yourself is not the hard part but its breaking the fast ( the period of which you stop fasting and slowly transition to regular foods) witch is the hard part. The key word is slow. You simply cannot go on a 12 day water fast and lose around 10-15lbs then eat the whole McDonalds menu, or raid your refrigerator. It takes at least 1 full week to completely break a water fast. Each day you would have to slowly introduce foods to your body.After you break a fast then you can learn from this and lead a healthier lifestyle of diet and exercise only then will the effects of your water fast be long term. Below are links to different site where the main focus is Water Fasting if you want to do your own research

 More Information on Water Fasting
http://www.gaianstudies.org/articles4.htm
http://www.fitnessthroughfasting.com/benefits-of-water-fasting.html
http://www.allaboutfasting.com/water-fasting.html
You can see peoples real life water fasting experiences on YouTube as well