<i>Myth #8: Fasting for a Few Days Drops the Pounds Quickly and Shrinks Your Stomach.</i><br>

If you fast, you may drop pounds, but some of that weight will be muscle, and most of it will be water. You need to eat protein foods such as lean meat, eggs, low-fat or fat-free milk, or legumes (beans and peas), or you'll be thin and flabby, not thin and shapely.
