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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 2191317" data-attributes="member: 7533">I wouldn't say so.  In fact, it'd worry me a little.Any expert you ask will tell you that 1-2 lbs. per week is the maximum healthy weight loss rate.  Anything higher than that, and you are likely losing either water weight (dehydrating yourself) or weight from non-fat tissues (losing muscle mass).  Either way it's not a good thing to do to your body, and you'll be more likely to put the weight back on afterward for two reasons...First, muscle cells burn more calories than fat cells do...  even when you are resting.  Simply having more muscle makes it easier to stay slim.  But if you are burning up all your muscles with a fast, then in the end, you'll be burning fewer calories for the same amount of body weight.  You sabotage your own diet.Second, when you fast and lose weight that quickly, your body automatically suddenly realizes, "Hey, I'm not getting enough food to maintain my muscles...  We're starving!"  Your metabolism goes way down to conserve energy.  Once the diet's over, it takes a bit of time for your body to get out of the 'starvation' mode.  In the mean time, you store up all that fat you just got rid of.</blockquote>