Good luck with that. I’ll bet that after a week-long fast you’ll find it hard to stick to the salad bar.
All-you-can-eat is restriced to salad (including fruit), soup, pasta and dessert. I don’t really like pasta and dessert that much.
LOL! Trust me, after a week-long fast, you will. 
They do not have belly fat. They have a condition called kwashiorkor and their abdomen are distended.
I’ve fasted for up to four days. Here are some things that might happen to you that you should be aware of:
Any exertion at all, such as climbing stairs, might make you dizzy, possibly to the point of passing out. Plan on a week of extremely gentle activity.
Time passes very slowly. You’ll be amazed to realize how much of your normal day is taken up with food activities, from making a shopping list to doing the dishes at the end of a meal. You won’t be doing any of that.
Most people will think you are really odd, except for those who are even more obsessed with their digestive tracts than you are. You may hear some long enthusiastic monologues about Toxins.
You may have all kinds of physical symptoms, including the previously mentioned weakness, headaches, constipation, cramping, light-headedness, and hallucinations. These are not the Toxins leaving your body, by the way. They are your body beginning to cope with starvation. If you have low body fat, these can come on quickly. Your body will start converting your muscle to calories to survive.
I fasted for religious reasons, which helped me keep my fast and my focus. If you have no real reason except curiosity and a stubborn laziness which has convinced you against all rationality that fasting is the way to get rid of fat, I tend to doubt you will have the staying power to see it through. Which in my opinion is a good thing.
Well hey, it’s your funeral.
You’re quoting a web-published, non-peer-reviewed journal of wonder and woo - basically, a very fancy multi-author blog.
Get back to us with medically-based, peer-reviewed research and we’ll continue.
That link also talks about the personal experiences of the author and his wife. I’m not saying that article is definite proof but it is good enough to encourage me to continue my fasting. BTW medically-based, peer-reviewed research can “suggest” contradictory things. e.g. when I was at university I was studying whether sweetened beverages caused weight gain or not and there wasn’t a definite answer.
Yeah I said they “have big bellies”. The similarity was the size of their bellies not the cause of it.
Maybe you had low blood sugar or something… on the other hand:
http://aeon.co/magazine/health/s-abbas-raza-fasting/
“Our weeklong fast was a little unusual as we also engaged in strenuous exercise every day”
Yes that link says they experienced boredom.
My flatmates do basically all of the food shopping. I usually eat while on the computer, walking or watching TV. I rarely ever do dishes.
We’ll see. I plan on going through with it even if I get fairly bad symptoms. Since I’ve made it a public thing it also encourages me not to give up.
More about Steve Hendricks’ article.
He is a journalist so he should be quite objective…
He talked about his 20 day fast and also mentioned:
Though it also says:
Lots of people have expressed an interest in doing stupid, dangerous, &/or life threatening things. Luckily, once they told others the others were able to talk them out of it. I don’t see a lot of “go for it” & “It’s a good idea” in the replies. Just sayin’
Like I said my doctor who had seen my recent blood test results said a week was “fine”. He was the one that suggested that duration. He also was completely against another person doing it based on her medications so that suggests he isn’t that pro-fasting. Remember that most people in this thread aren’t doctors.
I just had a multi-vitamin based on the guy who fasted for over a year:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17740805&postcount=52
though my doctor didn’t suggest it.
Most people here are probably going to persuade you to stop if you start experiencing serious problems, dude.
Like I mentioned earlier, fasting can have spiritual associations… well I had the day off of work (I’m part-time) and since both of my laptops were a bit flat I took two books to read on the bus trip instead. One was about Genesis and science and the other was by a pentecostal extremist (my sisters are a fan of him). He believes that many Christians are possessed by religious demons and they’ll burn forever in the lake of fire.
Here is some of his preaching about the lake of fire:
You mean you eat your flatmates food and don’t wash up afterwards?
I put in my share for the groceries every fortnight and they go in and get the two trolleys full. I help put it in the car and carry it to the house. I sometimes do the dishes but often others do it. And we minimize the amount of dirty dishes we make so we don’t need to do it every day. BTW we have an upstairs kitchen and a downstairs kitchen. I only ever do the dishes in the upstairs one but most meals are made downstairs.
In other words, some random people on the internet said it was a good idea with no science or data to back them up.