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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mansplain Douchebag here...anything that can signal your body to release insulin will technically break your fast.  One calorie of anything OR 0 calories of artificial sweetener technically takes your body out of a fasting state.  It has been demonstrated that the taste of sweet on the tongue, even if it's 0 calories will cause insulin release in your body.  I'm not going to argue if a low calorie day of broth will cause weight loss because I'm sure it will work great!  That is clearly a major calorie restriction.  I would say, the person who came up with that diet plan is doing the world a disservice by muddying the definition of the word "fast".  They should call it a low calorie broth diet or something.  It's just confusing to call that a fast.  There's other ones out there like that too.  I know someone who says they do a "fruit fast" and all they eat is fruit for 2 weeks.  Sorry, not a fast.  When my wife was going through her initial fasting experience and dropping 55 pounds in 5 months, I do wonder if part of the reason it happened so fast was because the fasting periods DID rebalance her hormones.  As I stated in a previous post that's one of the many health benefits of going through the reset your body does during a true fasting period.  She was doing lots of diet things to drop weight before fasting and none of it worked, until fasting and then she dropped weight like crazy.  I can't help but wonder.[/quote]

OP here. This is really interesting. I’d read that anything under 50 calories doesn’t break the fast. Now, my typical day is to not have anything other than black coffee and water in the morning until I break at noon. Yesterday, I was rinsing some blueberries to put in my daughter’s lunch, and ended up eating a handful (yes, I admit that I googled the calorie count to make sure I was staying under 50).  Then I fasted like normal until about 12:30.  Fast forward a few hours, and i was unable to stop snacking all day!!! This hasn’t happened since i started IF, but it makes sense now, if what you’re saying is true, that the blueberries triggered my insulin response even though they’re low calorie. Really interesting (to me :-p)[/quote]

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