Fasting for Weight Loss and Detox: What Tracey Trimmer's Report Covers, and Who Should Skip It

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A weight-loss plan that tells you to eat six meals a day also comes with a 28-page report on fasting. That sounds like a contradiction, and I want to show you why it is not one.

Fasting for weight loss and detox is a topic people either swear by or run from. The word alone makes a lot of us think of an empty stomach, a pounding headache and a week of misery. Tracey Trimmer, the author of The Trimmer Method, teaches the opposite on almost every page of her main program, and yet Bonus 1 in the package is called Fasting For Weight Loss & Detox. Here is how those two things sit side by side.

Why a program built on eating more includes a fasting report

Tracey's main message is that you should never count calories. She says restricting calories sends your body into what she calls "panic mode", where it stores more fat, and that the weight lost on a crash diet is mostly water and muscle. Her answer is to eat more, not less, with six meals a day and no forbidden foods.

So the fasting report does not replace any of that. It arrives as a bonus, worth $27 on its own, and it sits beside the main program as something you can read and think about. The main plan never asks you to go hungry, and the report is there for the person who is curious about fasting and wants to understand it before trying anything.

What the report says it covers

The report is 28 pages long. Tracey describes fasting in her letter as a simple, natural way of losing weight that people have used for a very long time, and she says it is a way of resetting your body's cravings and food compulsions. She also describes fasting and detoxing as a fabulous way to rest your body and kick off your weight loss.

The letter says the report teaches you what you need to know to do it safely, including how to cleanse your body of toxins. The letter gives no schedule or numbers, so I am not offering any here. What the report gives you is Tracey's own explanation of the subject, written by the same person who built the rest of the program.

If cravings are your biggest problem, that second claim is the one to notice. Plenty of people know exactly what to eat and still find the pull of food stronger than their plan. Tracey's view is that a fast can reset that pull, and she puts it in the same package as her report on emotional eating, Bonus 2.

Who should talk to a doctor before reading a word of it

Fasting is not for everyone, and I would be doing you no favours if I skipped past that. If you are pregnant, if you have diabetes, if you have any medical condition or if you take medication, speak to your doctor before you try any kind of fast. That goes for a short fast and a long one, and it goes for any plan in this article or in the report.

Results vary from person to person, and nothing here is medical advice. A report is information. Your doctor is the person who knows your body, and one conversation with them costs nothing.

How the fasting report fits a plan that never starves you

This is where the contradiction at the start of the article gets settled. The Trimmer Method is built so that you are happy, full and energised. Tracey says "going hungry" is not part of it. A fasting report in that setting is an extra for people who want it, and the program works without it.

You could read the main guide first, start eating the Trimmer way, and open Bonus 1 later when you feel ready. You could also skip it entirely and still have a complete plan. Nobody is told that a fast is the price of admission, and I like that, because a plan that only works if you suffer is a plan most of us quit.

What else comes in the package

The fasting report is one of three bonuses, which Tracey lists as worth over $85 together. The second is Food Addiction: Breaking The Habit, a 28-page report on how to stop emotional eating. The third is Speed Up Your Weight Loss: Sculpt A Physique In Just 20 Minutes, a 47-page ebook on moderate workouts that she says do not have to be hardcore.

The program comes in a version for men and a version for women. It costs $37 as a single payment, down from $49.95, and it is covered by Tracey's 60 Day Ironclad Weight Loss Guarantee. If it is not for you, you email The Trimmer Method Support Team within 60 days and you get a full refund.

If fasting has always interested you but frightened you too, this is a calm way to read about it, with a plan around it that keeps you fed. You can see the full Trimmer Method presentation on the official site and read Tracey's own explanation of the bonuses.

Click here to see The Trimmer Method and its three bonuses and decide for yourself whether it suits you.